Sometimes conservative ultra-rural areas resemble liberal trendy areas, don’t they? There’s a Portlandia video, but I’m having trouble loading it.
How many other people in the state drank raw milk and didn’t get sick?
I’m glad it is legal. People should have the choice to drink raw or cooked (pasteurized) milk, just like they have the choice to eat raw or cooked meat.
Just PLEASE label it and make sure that in restaurants and anyplace else there is no chance that someone could order it accidentally. What causes a small stomach ache in most people could cause a woman to lose her baby.
Pasteurized milk is the only safe choice, isn’t it? That’s what I’ve been led to believe!
It’s explicitly labeled here. Also since it’s ungodly expensive, I cannot imagine anyone would want to try to pass it off as regular milk. It would be like trying to pass off Dom Perignon as Cook’s. You would be bragging about serving it, not trying to get away with it.
But why the hell would you?
I think my biggest worry is being served something with raw milk at a restaurant. Listeria can kill a fetus, and it can take up the three months to do so. It’s pretty terrifying.
I have no idea why the hell anyone would eat mushrooms, they’re super disgusting and some of them can kill you…but I don’t want to see it made illegal.
That doesn’t answer the question though.
Seriously, is there some kind of perceived “advantage” of raw milk? Does it taste “better”?
Worst bad stomach experience ever!
Two tablespoons of unpasteurized milk served in boiled tea. Once I stopped vomiting I began shitting. It was an experience I will never forget.
If your digestion is unaccustomed to unpasteurized milk it could react, how shall I say, explosively!
Proceed with great caution!
Sorry, it was hard to tell that was a serious question.
I think it tastes better. Creamier and doesn’t have a tinny taste that most traditional milk has for me. I drink it whenever I can afford it, as a luxury. Like you would treat yourself to super quality cheese or cut of meat.
Some claim it has better health benefits due to enzymes not being destroyed by the pasteurization process. I have no idea if that’s true. I know people who have been drinking it exclusively for years and have never gotten sick.
Others like it because it is less processed, not just unpasteurized, but usually not homogenized. Certainly it has not had the fat separated and then added back in to meet specific fat percentages. Even whole milk has been separated and put back together.
I’m simply for people being allowed to choose.
Here’s Rationalwiki’s take on it.
my opinion is rationalwiki is about as useless or often more useless than wikipedia. also dailykos is a useless astroturfing website as well.
Hey, that’s great. You’ve changed my worldview. Thanks!
I’ve tasted it. It does taste different. As does ultrapasteurized. I don’t like either, but I suspect that’s just because I’m used to normal pasteurized. So I could see someone else preferring the taste.
There’s definitely some woo surrounding imaginary health benefits.
There’s no scientific benefit to drinking raw milk. It’s just that some people believe it’s more natural and therefore must be healthier.
Never had any trouble with my goats’ milk. Never felt my mouth was coated with something ick. Best yogurt ever. I had people call begging for milk for their kid who was allergic to cow’s milk, but the law was such that I couldn’t even give it away to anyone not a family member.
I had a closed herd, but my dairy goats were vaccinated and tested for TB and brucellosis every year just after kidding.
I’d buy raw milk from a certified dairy if I could, rather than the cloudy water that passes for milk in the store.
Always fun to watch someone turn green when I offered them my goats’ milk. Farm humor.
How is that useful to this discussion?
You have an odd sense of humor.
“C’mon, goats! I’m taking you all to Disneyland! JUST KIDDING! You’re all getting vaccinated and tested for TB and brucellosis, LOL.”