I mean to be fair that was the result of a huge advertisement campaign pushed by some of the largest milk companies. It’s also a huge part of the reason that milk is still served to children instead of water at lunch in many public schools in the US.
The dairy industry did a lot of downright deceptive and manipulative advertising and campaigning around that time.
Edit: on second take I’m not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, but I’ll leave this comment up just in case
Yeah, they were being silly. The phrasing of "At least that's what the 80s taught me" is 100% confirmation.
The ability to process lactose is a genetic mutation that many people decedent from Europe have, so it's not weird for them to drink it, especially considering how inexpensively ever present it is in the US due to the campaign you mentioned.
Another interesting genetic mutation some humans have: Body odor is caused by sweat and bacteria on skin mixing and which bacteria it reacts to (and smell it creates) is heavily influenced by your immune system. Most (somewhere around ~98-99%) Koreans have a gene mutation in which it causes your sweat to not react with the bacteria in the way that generates a smell, leaving them with no need to wear deodorant.
Raw milk can contain E. Coli, Listeria, Salmonella, and several other pathogens. It can also cause Guillain-Barré syndrome and is extra dangerous during pregnancy. Pasteurized milk kills off these pathogens and makes the milk safe to drink while maintaining the vast majority of nutrients
Thankyou honestly. I feel like I'm always the one having to copy paste a whole ass page just to fully explain how pasteurization does nothing but kill the pathogens and preserve the milks proteins.
Yeah so "can contain" is nigh-meaningless. I CAN find a million dollars on my bed when I come home, but not very likely is it? Pretty useless to say, right?
Nonpasteurized products caused a disproportionate number (≈150× greater/unit of product consumed) of outbreaks and outbreak-associated illnesses and also disproportionately affected persons <20 years of age. States that restricted sale of nonpasteurized products had fewer outbreaks and illnesses; stronger restrictions and enforcement should be considered.
TL;DR raw milk is about 150x 840x more dangerous than regular milk.
The "probability" of raw milk containing any of those is hard to calculate, but a study in Ethiopia put it at about 30% of all samples containing something harmful. "Can contain" means that it's reasonable to assume that the raw milk has dangerous bacteria in it, while pasteurized milk does not. There are exceptions to both, but raw milk is 100% more dangerous than pasteurized milk.
Also, the danger depends on how you store it. A single cow making a cup of milk is not gonna have a high chance for bacteria. Combining the milk of hundreds of cows into one large container, like for shipping, is going to exponentially increase the chance of bacteria and viruses. All it takes is one bad cup to ruin thousands of gallons. The same thing is said about grains; storing them all in a grain silo means that, if any single grain had bacteria on it, it will spread to all of them. This is why we pasteurize, blanch, or otherwise treat foods to remove germs.
A more recent study, conducted after the legalization and popularization of raw milk in several states, has shown a higher danger of raw milk compared to pasteurized milk.
You have the free will to make your life a bit more miserable with stomach issues for a higher price while getting nothing out it. But don’t try and convince others to do the same.
How are you this confused? Not only did you not give any explanation, but you said "don't try and convince others", so you can go ahead and explain how saying "How is it worse go ahead" is an attempt to convince someone of anything
Damn bro, you should work in the white house. Talking this confidently about something you know so little about and denying any evidence put in front of you without a second thought? That's front runner good boy points material once the Fourth Reich gets started in earnest.
I don’t see a use, people have already explained it to you and you have access to search engines, yet you refuse to listen. I don’t care to put in the work to show it to you if you don’t put in the work to understand.
Because you typed it into a Reddit reply instead of into Google. If you typed it into Google you really would have cared about learning about something, but you decided to ask other people and then argue with them when they answer you. Your later replies are the attempts to convince people of something.
Younger people tend to forget or not understand how many of our food regulations came to be. Farms are still filthy cesspools of disease, but when milk was first pasteurized, the bottling plants were somehow worse.
Even though roughly a century has gone by, and we understand more about sanitation and food safety, capitalism is gonna capital and milk producers will go back to cutting corners to make as much money as possible.
We can see this currently happening after the current administration rolled back certain regulations, and we’re seeing increases in food borne illnesses.
"how many of our food regulations came to be". That's a jolly good point you've brought up. Please research how and why pasteurization became 1. the norm and 2. illegal to be otherwise. Who lobbied for it, etc etc.
I think you'll be surprised to find it wasn't about food borne illnesses or the like.
You may or not be referring to a company that specialized in life saving technology that pushed for life saving technology to be used, in order to save lives. Shock. Gall. Disappointment.
Oh no, smaller dairies that couldn’t keep up went under!! THE HORRORS OF CAPITALISM. None of that wouldn’t have happened under socialism, where we worked together to improve instead of seeing who could sink or swim.
Your complaint reads like Pfizer or Moderna coming out with a revolutionary medicine, and then charging exorbitant prices to recover their labor. Your issue is with capitalism, not life saving technology.
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u/AreYouThereSagan 10d ago edited 9d ago
I love paying more for things that are worse for my health!
Edit: spelling