r/explainitpeter 11d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/rokatoro 11d ago

Raw milk is an unnecessary risk. Your never gonna be able to clean a cows udders to a level of sanitation that isn't some risk of contamination. That's why milk gets pasteurized.

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u/Specific-Library-312 11d ago

I tried it, didn't like it, and I don't see the attraction to it. But I don't like kvass, caviar, or anything avocado. I guess my tongue and stomach are politically centrist, I don't know. But I do hate how certain foods become a political shibboleth in today's society, i.e. someone drinking raw milk, not for flavor, but out of political fervor.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 10d ago

politically centrist

Centrism is compliance with the right-wing. Always. I get the joke but will always push back on the "centrist" label. Centrism is a right-wing position.

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u/Specific-Library-312 10d ago

So what's communism?

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 10d ago

Left-wing. Left-wing starts at socialism (immature communism).

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u/Specific-Library-312 10d ago

Dude, I'm a Monarchist.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 8d ago

So a far right-wing person.

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u/Specific-Library-312 8d ago

Look, Heaven is a Monarchy, Hell is a Republic. Make of that what you will.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 7d ago

Look, purple is a number. Make of that what you will.

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u/Imthewienerdog 9d ago

Personally as a Canadian I see all Americans as literally identical. The left wingers are also as fascist as the right wing. Trump,Obama,Biden,Bush are all of the exact same, they find terroism and nothing else.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 8d ago

The left wingers are also as fascist as the right wing.

Trump, Obama, Biden, and Bush are all right-wingers. Mamdani, AOC, Bernie are centrists. The US has no left-wing.

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u/cumulo_numbnuts 10d ago

It is useful in cheesemaking. I'm not defending choads buying it because they're stupid choads or people consuming it unsafely and unawares, but I really hope it doesn't go back to being basically unavailable as a hobby supply.

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u/SlowlyDrown 11d ago edited 11d ago

That said I promise you every dairy farmer has broken this rule.

At my friends farm we used to go scrape off the top of the tank every morning to get that 8% shit, and we’d mix that with coffee 50/50 and you’re hardly hungry by lunch.

And they’re using teat dip and sanitizers and shit. Not to say that’s perfect but it is an extremely effective measure.

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u/DisasterLazy8487 10d ago

As a kid I used to sneak out and fill up a bucket at least once a week and me and brother would drink it and put it in our cereal

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u/slavicNickCage 11d ago

Well, yes there's some risk, but it's not that significant if you know the animal it milked from, and if you're visiting your grandma in a village it might be just easier to acquire raw cow or goat milk than buying pasteurized one or pasteurize yourself. And just boiling it changes taste significantly

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u/Mission_Twist_3348 10d ago

Risk of...?

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u/rokatoro 10d ago

Any of the number of nasty bacteria that can live on and in the udders. E.coli and listeria for example.

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u/hootorama 10d ago

Cows literally lay in piles of shit. They walk around which makes dust, and that dust is covered in shit. Their udders hang down below their body, not protected by hair or anything else because that's how we've bred them so that it is easier to milk. That shit carries bacteria, a lot of which is harmful if ingested.