Let this be a warning to the current cabinet pick for health in the US!
Eh, who am I kidding.
If they support raw milk so much, I suggest we make them drink at exclusively. Let’s see how long they last…
That is what is great! With the thing trumps administration wants to do, they just won't detect these things, so nothing to worry about!
In Colorado, the big agricultural/ranching areas are the most reactionary. One cattle town, Greeley, even attempted to secede from the state over the barest COVID restrictions. Raw milk is a big culture war thing for them and the hippies who flocked to the most densely populated areas of the state. Luckily we live in the 21st century though and it's illegal for a commercial dairy to sell unpasteurised milk.
So anyways the dairies are owned by reactionaries who love selling raw milk to other reactionaries. Since it's legal to drink the raw milk of your family cow, the dairies circumvent food safety laws by selling a "share" of a "cow". That entitles you to X amount of raw milk per week. The cow is one of hundreds in an industrial dairy being fed chicken shit. The first human case from this current epidemic was a prisoner being used as slave labour to bury all the chickens at an infected farm.
It's so much filthier than any of the racist shit hogs said about Chinese wet markets. This is a wholly manmade horror perfectly within our comprehension purely being driven for profit. I hope it ends with crucifixions.
In Colorado, the big agricultural/ranching areas are the most reactionary.
is there anywhere in the western world where this isn't the case
love 2 separate town and country with no consequences 
what?
Overextraction of raw materials from rural communities drives the overdevelopment of cities at the cost of underdeveloping those rural communities, further alienating them and driving them to reactionary politics. It's a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Overextraction of raw materials from rural communities drives the overdevelopment of cities
Genuinely asking, what does this mean?
It's similar to colonialism: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01c.htm
One of Marx's first big ecological ideas was observing how sheep were transforming England. The growth of textile mills in cities meant that the cities became the economic, social, and cultural hubs. That's the primary tax base and population centre so that's where the money from the factories goes and where an individual has opportunities/infrastructure. Meanwhile to feed those mills and their growth you need a larger source of raw materials. That's cotton from slave plantations and wool from English shepherds. The countryside was transformed as small farmers were displaced and nature was degraded to make more room for sheep, just as the American south became dominated by large slave plantations. The wool sells for a lower price than the shirt so they have less direct revenue coming in, the lower population density and alienation from opportunity/infrastructure both negatively impact its tax benefits, and to top it off they're poisoned by the work of extraction and the pollution of the cities they build. Cities and markets have to grow to compete with each other, and that growth sucks the life out of rural and natural systems.
So what's to be done about this?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/hist-mat/hous-qst/ch03b.htm
On the other hand, it is completely utopian to want, like Proudhon, to transform present-day bourgeois society while maintaining the peasant as such. Only as uniform a distribution as possible of the population over the whole country, only an integral connection between industrial and agricultural production together with the thereby necessary extension of the means of communication — presupposing the abolition of the capitalist mode of production — would be able to save the rural population from the isolation and stupor in which it has vegetated almost unchanged for thousands of years. It is not utopian to declare that the emancipation of humanity from the chains which its historic past has forged will only be complete when the antithesis between town and country has been abolished; the utopia begins when one undertakes "from existing conditions" to prescribe the form in which this or any other of the antitheses of present-day society is to be solved.
It's why I'm Team Degrowth and a big believer in art nouveau. We need simplified, localised, non-commodified production and consumption. Craftsmanship and home economy, alternative agriculture systems which support individual families and immediate communities, mutual aid networks, severe regulation of resource extraction and pollution, centralised state control of those industries with a focus on becoming an ecological civilisation, and funding rural communities more to encourage a more even population distribution that's still in line with the carrying capacity of the land. China has been pretty good about tackling a lot of these problems in recent years but I think a real solution is a more radical reorganisation of supply-side economics and infrastructure to make the countryside more evenly developed at a lower scale than industrial society.
edit: John Bellamy Foster's work is invaluable if these problems interest you. It centres around this idea and the underlying idea of the metabolic rift.
a reference to Marx and Engels’s assertion that the goal of communism is to eventually reconcile the division between town and country
The point I'm trying to make was that this isn't a Colorado problem, due to systems involved
Why do people buy raw milk? Does it have material benefits over pasteurized milk?
Why do people buy raw milk?
They're idiots. Some believe it's because pasteurized milk had added chemicals, which isn't correct, pasteurization is simply heat. But idiots will be idiots.
For others it's the general anti-science/education bullshit going around now. The crossover with the anti-vax is nearly a circle it seems.
"I'm going to buy the least healthy version of the least healthy kind of milk." —Folks concerned about their health
I genuinely feel bad. It's like they're so close. Going out of your way to care about your health is good. Challenging broad societal assumptions is good. It's just that this completely fell apart when they arrived at the "now weigh the sources critically" stage. The charlatans who sold them this idea for profit should be in prison.
Can't cure stupid unfortunately
Idiot conservatives (and many 'crunchy' people who don't realize they are idiot conservatives) believe raw milk has more nutrients, that its better to be exposed to more harmful bacteria because that will build up your natural immunity, and can prevent you from developing asthma and allergies.
But none of that is true.
Raw milk has no more nutrients than pastuerized milk.
The 'crowd exposure immunity' approach just results in needless deaths and suffering, little to no functional natural immunity increase as bacteria variants evolve too fast, as well as providing more vectors for viruses in birds and cows to jump into humans and then mutate to spread from human to human, a potential pandemic.
And raw milk consumption has no effect on liklihood of developing, nor treating already existing asthma or allergies.
They should also their pork rare. And chicken sushi of course, that's how animals do it in nature :o)
You jest, but there are also significant numbers of people who advocate eating raw, uncooked meat and organs as well.
Hell, I remember when people drinking urine for its supposed health benefits were extremely rare... now about a decade later, sadly that movement is picking up steam as well.
Americans seem to have a unique and exceptional susceptibility to ... literally anything promoted as a health product, all you have to do is package it in enough psuedo science bs, with either a hefty helping of 'basically all mainstream medical/dietary knowledge is a conspiracy' or spiritual/aspirational bullshit about manifesting your chakras.
This is a country where at least a third of people believe evolution is fake, where a third believe astrology is real.
Sagan's nightmare has come true.
It's got vibes. Pasteur was working for big pharma and he didn't want people to vibe out so hard.
I remember reading a book that was illustrated kinda in the same style that "schoolhouse rock" was animated with, at least the "I'm just a bill, sitting here on capitol hill" song. Dunno about the rest of the series, never saw it.
In this book they were telling the story about Louis Pasteur and his rabies vaccine, they mentioned pasteurization, but didn't go into how it worked. The book portrayed the vaccine in a ridiculously oversized syringe, and the vaccine inside was soldiers. Probably French legionaries, but I called them Blue Nutcrackers. That book made me understand at a kid level how vaccines work, and made me comfortable with getting them when I was 6. I wish I could remember what it was called, it really should be required reading.
Edit: Found it! It is called "The Value of Believing In Yourself, The story of Louis Pasteur.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A43eHlEaxPs
That video the lady reads it, but if you fast forward to ≈11:00 she shows the ridiculous syringe.
No clue why the book seems to be ≈ $85-$90 on eBay. Guess it's out of print.
It can have some benefits, but in most cases the risks outweigh the benefits. You can read more on https://www.health.com/raw-milk-vs-pasteurized-milk-8656536 where they have studies linked to back up the claims.
For USA specially it's more of a way to stick it to the government than searching for any benefits.
I've seen claims that it has more nutrients in it that are destroyed by pasteurization. There are also probiotics that would be destroyed by it. However, you can get these things elsewhere with less risk of contamination.
It makes delicious cheese. Pasturisation kills bacteria and denatures enzymes that are helpful in making good cheese. After proper aging, it's safe to eat. Parmigiano Reggiano is made with unpasturised milk.
They buy it because they are easily spooked by long words such as 'Pasteurization' and probably fell asleep during the class that talks about all of the diseases that the Pasteurization' process is supposed to prevent.
Don't worry, JFK Jr. Will be on the case soon!
It's cool. That new guy they picked for Department of Health will get it sorted..
It's a Good Thing Trump's Administration takes this REALLY SERIOUSLY!
Biden is still the president
I feel so confident in the people he's picking to lead the various departments, and in his entirely reasonable handling of the last pandemic - what could possibly go wrong?!
Not just because of bird flu one should not drink this.
I saw raw milk being sold at the store and was interested in trying it out. I might have to visit again to see if it is indeed raw milk
At this point, a 100% effective ebola mutation would be a mercy.
The limp along to our own self-imposed extinction we are absolutely committed to in the name of short term private profit, whether by fascist nuclear war or greed made climate change, is the torture, and the delay breeds the most painful thing of all in the non-wealthy masses that are powerless to stop it out of irrational desperation: false hope.
Rooting for the virus, what a timeline.
If another pandemic happens under the orange waste of a human...I'll never let the right live it down. They won't care, but hey, I gotta hold onto something.
Hopefully it won't be a deadly pandemic 🤞
Several years ago I had raw milk on a farm and it tasted incredible. I imagine that has more to do with the fact that that it gone from cow to mouth in about 30 second than with pasturization, right?
No. The way milk get pasteurized is for speed and volume. They heat it up higher for a short amount of time to kill the baddies (and flavor). There is a slower process without as much heat and that saves some flavor, but big companies don't use it.
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