• ascend@lemmy.radio
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    4 days ago

    I always imagined raw milk coming in old timey glass jars that you have to get from a local milk person

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      back when i lived in the mountains, they had a liquid dispenser machine where you would press a button and it would pour out. you had to bring your own jar. good times.

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      Its generally in plastic bottles sold as “pet food” with the label “not safe for human consumption”.

      So, pretty concerned the artist here might have some serious damagr if they treat raw milk as something normal.

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        I’ve never seen this. By me it’s treated more like drugs, you’ve got to know a guy. And hopefully you trust him to wash those titties, or else you’re getting sick

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          Some farmers may wash dem titties, or claim they do, but the dairy industry rarely does in real practice - beyond perhaps knocking/spraying off the larger pieces of dirt with a hose or soaked rag.

          Senior milking cows develop keratosis, which means their teats would be near impossible to disinfect via cleaning without using some kind of steam treatment or extended antibiotic soak… Which is obviously not possible physically or commercially, so it’s not done.

          Cows are hairy, sweaty, hygeine-unburdened creatures and the ones that live on dairy farms are on antibiotics and living in cramped conditions, perpetually nursing or pregnant. Which is why cows milk is a significant disease vector, and why pasteurization is so core to the milk industry surviving - and so bizarre to see people intentionally avoid it.

          There is scientifically no value in raw milk over pasteurized, just significant added risks.

          But I mean it’s generally the same crowd that tan their balls in UV light and eat raw meat ‘for their health’ that do it, so… Not that surprising.

          Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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            living in cramped conditions

            the milking shed is cramped sure but they are in there maybe a couple hours a day. at least at our dairy. they would spent the rest of the time at pasture. otherwise you get bad milk.

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              Depending on the country, it’s pretty common for most milk production to be cows kept in extremely cramped conditions indoors with little to no space to move and fed processed grain instead of grass. It does make the milk taste worse, but it can be so much cheaper that customers don’t splurge on the more expensive milk, so don’t know what they’re missing. Even if you only ever see cows outdoors, you might also see low-welfare dairies and just assume they’re warehouses or factories and aren’t full of livestock, as a factory farm can look just like any other large industrial building.

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                I mean we got the shit quality milk from [store redacted] instead of the fancy mancy brand and I could taste the difference. I swear the gallon went bad in a week and it’s not just me being a snob from being from a family of dairymen going back to the invention of cows. You could taste the captivity. Damn milk was sour

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            But I mean it’s generally the same crowd that tan their balls in UV light and eat raw meat ‘for their health’ that do it, so… Not that surprising.

            Way to ruin your comment… you have no way to know this.

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              I know this as it’s the same influencers on Youtube and Instagram that peddle red light therapy, and raw meat that pass off the ‘incredible health value’ of raw milk.

              I’m sorry this reality causes you to think the value of the comment is lessened, as though pointing out a social alignment somehow negates the scientific facts.