At least 21 people in Florida are sick with ecoli and Campylobacter from drinking raw milk.
6 are younger than 10
7 are in the hospital
Raw milk is not healthy. It’s not safe. It’s a not a miracle cure for chronic illness.
Pasteurization was an incredible scientific advancement that saved lives.
These are serious illnesses that can kill or leave you disabled
Don’t fall for the grift and don’t drink raw milk
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-04/raw-milk-tied-to-e-coli-and-campylobacter-infections-in-florida
#uspol #wellness #fascism #publichealth #ecoli
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca I tell anyone who thinks drinking raw milk is a good idea to work on a dairy farm. Just one day. Cows get manure all over themselves.
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What kind of plonker drinks raw milk?
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca I got lung tuberculosis from raw milk aa a toddler. Raw milk does get fancy from time to time and my mother thought this to be good for me 😢
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@MostlyTato@mstdn.social @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Raw milk enthusiasts point out that people having been drinking raw milk safely for millennia. Except those people had been drinking the same milk from the same cows since they were kids. They owned their own cows, kept them in sanitary conditions and they were free to graze on grass, their natural diet.
Even then it wasn't as safe as pasteurized or filtered milk, and zoonotic diseases such as cowpox were common.
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Well, yes, people had been dying of smallpox for centuries too. Until they didn't anymore.
@MostlyTato@mstdn.social @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca If I remember rightly, cowpox, which is unpleasant but rarely fatal, confers immunity to smallpox, which often is. Which may be one reason (aside from pasteurization not having been invented yet) that folks were prepared to accept the risks posed by raw milk!
But I'm only speculating.
@MostlyTato@mstdn.social @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca If I remember rightly, cowpox, which is unpleasant but rarely fatal, confers immunity to smallpox, which often is. Which may be one reason (aside from pasteurization not having been invented yet) that folks were prepared to accept the risks posed by raw milk!
But I'm only speculating.
@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world @MostlyTato@mstdn.social @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca You remember rightly. Cowpox does indeed confer immunity to smallpox. In fact Jenner's smallpox vaccine in the 18th century was based on cowpox.
And that's why we call it a vaccine: from the Latin vacca, meaning cow.
Whether that has anything to do with drinking raw milk in times gone by I have no idea.
@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world @MostlyTato@mstdn.social @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca You remember rightly. Cowpox does indeed confer immunity to smallpox. In fact Jenner's smallpox vaccine in the 18th century was based on cowpox.
And that's why we call it a vaccine: from the Latin vacca, meaning cow.
Whether that has anything to do with drinking raw milk in times gone by I have no idea.
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