Raw milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus (arstechnica.com)

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The institute's founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. According to McAfee, his customers believe, without evidence, that directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen.

Looks like it’s going to be a fun flu season this year 🫠 Every day I feel more justified in my decision to relentlessly mask with an N95 every time I’m indoors in public.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

The California-based Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. According to McAfee, his customers believe, without evidence, that directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen.

By all means, drink up, morons, get the hell out of our gene pool, we've got enough troubles without your Dimwit DNA.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It’ll only be a matter of time until the virus mutates and successfully transmits from human to human.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The problem is they infect the rest of us.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen

It's like homeopathy but even stupider

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

These raw milk fools never learn. Raw milk has always been dangerous. Now even more dangerous. Avoid raw milk.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You say that like it's a way tuberculosis spreads.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Raw milk is safe to drink in the UK.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Kinda, it's regulated because it can be so unsafe and even then you are kinda risking a bad time drinking raw milk. There is a reason we pasturise it.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

Well, that's the point of regulations - to make food good and safe.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah I understand but the regulations are basically to protect people from being exposed to it. So it's still unsafe but because it's so regulated you have to find sources for it and those sources have to prove they don't have sick cows to sell you raw milk I assume a lot of not safe milk gets through so I would argue that it isn't safe to drink raw milk ever no matter what unless you are a baby cow and even them it still might kill you.. they banned it in Scotland since its dangerous and you can't buy it in any markets anywhere in the uk

[-] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

That logic can be applied to literally everything. You can't just sell random shit and say it's food. Not sure why you're arguing. The point is that raw milk is safe, food in the US is not.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

you know what i won't miss? these people.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Shocked Pikachu in 3…2…1…

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Is raw milk the new anti-vax?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago

I always find it interesting that Americans are scared of raw foods. No raw milk, no carpaccio or tartare, raw pork is a no-no and raw seafood is an instant death. Really tells you that the food quality in the US is very low.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Raw pork literally has a risk of brain worms. It's been in the news.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It is extremely rare in the UK https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-017-2280-8

You're more likely to get poisoning from cooked rice. If cooked rice is ok, raw pork is more than ok.

You should also know one thing about food in the UK - if some infection is found in the food chain, Brits tend to obliterate the whole animal stock to stop it. A lot of diseases don't exist in the UK because Brits annihilated whole animal populations. Like tick bourne encephalitis, for example. Or rabies. Or when whole chicken farms are burned to the ground when one bird gets avian flu. We take this shit real serious.

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