• Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Right. Raw milk is not pasteurized. Thats the whole point - they are drinking milk that has the live virus on purpose. Viruses can then spread from person to person. So while I wont drink unpasteurized milk, those who do will still put the rest of us at risk.

    • Coreidan@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      How many people have access to raw milk? I certainly don’t. All milk sold in the US is pasteurized.

      As far as I am concerned this is just fear mongering. Which is par for the course because that is what the media does. They drum up hysteria and fear to gain viewer attention.

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        6 months ago

        Did you read the article at all? Or any of the comments? You can legally buy raw milk, and people will also buy it illegally as well.

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        6 months ago

        Hopefully not many, but this has been a thing for awhile before the whole bird flu problem. It’s a little weird, I cant say I understand why, but there’s been a movement of people fighting for their right to drink raw milk for awhile now. I think it’s normally a small group who circumvents the stores and goes straight to the source, so it goes mostly unnoticed, but this situation is putting them in the spotlight. So, yes and no. Agreed that the media is likely blowing it out of proportion, but it is definitely a thing in some areas.