USDA to start mandatory testing of milk for H5N1 flu virus
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acetothermus
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The Feds can compel any company to test for now. Give it less than a month and all bets are off.
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Good.
The raw-milk nuts will whine and complain, but this is necessary. H5N1 jumping to human transmission would be a huge mess, and raw milk as a vector is a substantial risk.
If anything, the limited testing proposed doesn't go far enough.
The raw-milk nuts will whine and complain, but this is necessary. H5N1 jumping to human transmission would be a huge mess, and raw milk as a vector is a substantial risk.
If anything, the limited testing proposed doesn't go far enough.
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This sucks! Why do they have to butt into peoples freedoms and shit? What if I -a strong independent patriot- want to drink milk and don't care if it has some kind of woke disease? It's none of their business!
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H5N1 is a satanic bioweapon being used to get raw milk drinkers to stop because it is too beneficial to those that drink it. You can protect yourself without having to buy pasteurized milk by warming your milk. Just put your milk in a pot and warm it to about 165 f and keep it there for about a minute, then you can safely drink it without worrying about getting infected by the disease.
Fight back, drink warmed milk!
Fight back, drink warmed milk!
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I was literally reading an article today that RFK jr. was consulting a guy in Cali that supplies raw milk and whose farm has had to do recalls due to bird flu. So the insanity is coming soon.
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I think a large part of the problem is the level of ignorance has risen, to where 'homogenized and pasteurized' now sounds really scary - like things being 'processed' or things containing 'chemicals'.
Let's just allow homogenized and pasteurized milk be able to be labeled as 'Safe Milk'.
Then the consumer choice on the shelf is 'Safe Milk' vs 'Raw Milk'.
Communicates the risk, hopefully hampers interest in raw milk.
Let's just allow homogenized and pasteurized milk be able to be labeled as 'Safe Milk'.
Then the consumer choice on the shelf is 'Safe Milk' vs 'Raw Milk'.
Communicates the risk, hopefully hampers interest in raw milk.
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"If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any..."
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Even Twinkies contain residual dihydrogen monoxide! Breathing that stuff in could kill you!
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If nothing else, the recent internet trends have proven you always need to explicitely include the /s.
The onion can barely get away with it because the brand is strictly satire. And even then, it sounds more plausible than reality.
Sorry phone edit is botching quote format.
I like this, but focus on all of the dangerous pathogens in raw milk and refer to them by scientific names. Ugh it's annoying you have to socially engineer messaging for scary sounding words.
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I agree, but if you read what they posted, they're actually instructing raw milk enthusiasts to pasteurize their milk.
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Danger Milk, ftw! I literally eat it for breakfast on my bowl of Fruity Pebbles every morning because I'm just that bad ass. Besides, only liberal sissies drink Safe milk. #MyBodyMyChoice
For those who need it: /s.
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It's also a major component in acid rain and reduces automobile brake effectiveness!
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I had my doubts about the "warmed milk" post, but I'm absolutely sure this has an omitted "/s".
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Thank the Republitards for the pathological dumbification of America since 1980. Makes it easier to confuse and outsmart people to vote for you.
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It’s almost certainly a joke here but if you spend a couple of minutes on Reddit or X you can find people who appear to be completely serious saying the same thing. It’s like the “keep your government hands off of my Medicare” people found a new interest.
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I'll just leave this here for you: https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...op-testing-right-now-wed-have-very-few-cases/
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The sarcasm is palpable, but there are people who think exactly that.
I say, give them what they want.
As long as isolation is enforced by public health officials and law enforcement, I say let them feel the freedumb to the bitter end.
The human race could become measurably more sensible.
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I don't have a problem with people killing THEMSELVES with their stupidity. the problem I have is you can't really limit the damage to just the morons.
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Honestly, given our current state of things, how can you tell anymore?
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Raw milk is mostly dihydrogen monoxide! (Pasteurization might remove a little of it?)
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Man. Imagine if Avian Flu had evolved to wipe out millions of dairy cows this year. I expect we would have seen a lot of people come out as pro vaccine pretty quickly.
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It doesn't need one. He's directly quoting Trump, during his presidency, talking about how to handle Covid-19 cases - which were rising at the time. His solution: do less testing, explicitly because "if you test more, you have more cases."
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If anyone wants to have a historical reminder of how unpasteurized milk can kill, look up the Swill Milk scandal of the 1800's. While other forms of milk adulteration were part of the problem, the biggest reason it killed kids was the bacterial load. Pasteurization is one of the most important processes we have for food safety.
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Have a snedge at this for a republitard. Dumbification does not even come close
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67662779
Edit... spelen, it's always sppelin
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Nonono, the milk is woke-free until the gubbmint infects it with the 5G radiowaves carrying the woke nanochips (what they call "pasteurization").
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If I recall correctly from reading The Jungle and its contemporaries in a university class, a major cause of the bacterial load was from feeding the cows swill (leftover mash from beermaking & such).
That class (from the far past of the mid 90's) paralleled that with contemporary industrial feedlot practices & adding meatpacking waste to cattle feed to bump up its protein content. I think this was around the mad cow disease uptick in the mid 90's and the feed thing was considered a major contributing factor to the 90's issue.
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Yeah. I guess we won't be seeing General Mills bring back it's "Crazy Cow" cereal any time soon.
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