TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths - eviltoast
  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Gotta get rid of those regulations so we can have people drinking swill milk again.

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – In the weeks after passing a bill, allowing West Virginians to drink raw milk, one delegate brought the drink in to celebrate and, eventually, several lawmakers have gotten sick.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t totally disagree with raw milk, but it shouldn’t be allowed to be destributed. If you go to a local farm and pick up some milk that hasn’t been pasteurized, that seems reasonable, and honestly a lot better than the current system.

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        8 months ago

        Doesn’t matter, my point is without regulations, you’re back to swill milk.

        I think raw milk should be available to buy , as a niche product that is labelled correctly so people understand how to process it safely.

        The “fuck regulations” crowd want it legal so the farmers/businesses have no obligation for food safety, thus, back to swill milk.

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          8 months ago

          I don’t think raw milk should be available to buy except directly on a farm. Yes, we have refrigeration now and you can TB test the cows regularly but there is zero reason to go back to the times of listeria and tuberculosis killing and disabling children just because someone read some nonsense on the Internet.

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            8 months ago

            sure , why not. Maybe you know better than me and those idiots who tried to force it to be legal.

            I don’t particularly care that much either way, but was leaning on the side of the people that want to make weird homemade dairy products.