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Raw milk disease outbreak in New Smyrna Beach Florida

Safiel

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There is currently a raw milk disease outbreak centering around Keely Farms Dairy LLC in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Raw milk from New Smyrna Beach dairy farm sickens 21 people in Florida

After 21 people were sickened by raw milk produced in New Smyrna Beach, a University of Florida food safety expert explains the danger.
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A number of the victims are children and several of the cases are severe.

Interestingly, it is illegal to sell raw milk for human consumption in Florida, but it is sold as pet food in Florida, with a required label that it has not been pasteurized for human consumption. So as long as a customer lies that the milk is for pet consumption, they can acquire raw milk for their own use.

The parents who gave raw milk to their children should be prosecuted for felony child endangerment. Can't stop them from killing themselves, but they should definitely not be endangering their kids.

The pet food loophole should be closed, but that won't happen with the current political composition of Tallahassee.

If you want an alternative to high temperature ultra-pasteurization, there is a product called cream top milk, which is pasteurized using a lower temperature, but longer duration cycle and which is not homogenized, giving at least the illusion of straight from the cow milk.
 
I drank raw milk from glass bottles every day when I was a kid. It's also legal in France, and they know more about food than we do.
 
aociswundumho said:
I drank raw milk from glass bottles every day when I was a kid. It's also legal in France, and they know more about food than we do.
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So do I.

I grew up near one of our relative's dairy farm in northeast Pennsylvania and we drank milk that was brought in daily in glass bottles. That was in the 70's and early 80's. None of my extended family, including those still running those farms, still drinks raw milk and they do not sell raw milk from their farms, all milk being collected by the local dairy company for pasteurization and homogenization.

Most people seeking raw milk are getting from a supplier of unknown quality.

But even if they take the utmost precaution, it only takes a handful of bacteria to kill someone.

Drinking raw milk is little different from Russian roulette.

Government has a positive duty to act in the best interest of its citizens, particular when they engage in behavior that they clearly do not understand the consequences of. Moreso when children are involved.

The Federal Government bans raw milk in interstate commerce and rightly so.

States should at least ban the consumption of raw milk by children and make it a felony for the parents if a child becomes ill from raw milk.

There is no medical benefit from raw milk, any claims to the contrary being a complete load of bull shit.
 
FAFO
 
Safiel said:
The parents who gave raw milk to their children should be prosecuted for felony child endangerment.
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Yup. Pathogens in raw milk can include salmonella and E. coli. May as well give the kiddies raw chicken and ground beef for dinner.

It's amazing how dumb and how reckless with their children's health people can be. I bet their kids are all unvaccinated too.
 
 
Every year dozens of people become seriously ill from drinking raw milk. Conclusion: Let's drink raw milk.
 
There is a large enough of a demand for raw milk, the state needs to allow its sale and simply apply some sensible sanitary regulations.

The government is not in place to take away our freedoms. If people want raw mild, they should be able to get it. I but a milk that is pasteurized but not homogenized. I would prefer it be homogenized but not pasteurized. But then I would also want a known safe place to get it.

Both my parents lived all their early life on raw milk, and so did I until my parents moved off the farm when I was young. The problem happens when you have a large operation that only takes one incompetent action to cause problems. The more people involved, the greater the risk of a mishap.
 
Lord of Planar said:
There is a large enough of a demand for raw milk, the state needs to allow its sale and simply apply some sensible sanitary regulations.
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The sensible sanitary precaution is pasteurization. There are no benefits to drinking raw milk instead of pasteurized milk.
 
aociswundumho said:
I drank raw milk from glass bottles every day when I was a kid. It's also legal in France, and they know more about food than we do.
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When I was a young child, my mother fed us milk mixed with chocolate syrup and raw eggs.

I survived, but it doesn't mean I'm going to say it's safe to consume raw eggs.
 
Pyrite said:
When I was a young child, my mother fed us milk mixed with chocolate syrup and raw eggs.

I survived, but it doesn't mean I'm going to say it's safe to consume raw eggs.
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Like many children, when I was very young I would lick the bowl or the beaters after mom made cake. Again, back in the 70's and early 80's, didn't really think about the fact that batter has raw eggs. My children were not permitted to do so.

Just because me and my siblings got lucky and did not suffer ill effects does not negate the danger. Children have died from salmonella after consuming raw batter.
 
Proper thought to proper sanitation is nothing to do with chance.
 

If only there were a century-old procedure designed to prevent this kind of crap from happening.
 

I've been buying shelf stable UHT milk ever since Trump began attacking the FDA.
I buy Lala brand and it's "sort of" price competitive with refrigerated dairy milk but it keeps six months on the shelf and only needs to be chilled after opening.
Tastes exactly like milk because it is milk.

Even my wife, who has been documented as having over twice the normal number of taste buds, a so called "supertaster" seems to think it's just like regular dairy milk and she
craves milk with great gusto, so she is very particular. I caught Hell for foisting 2% milk on her early in our marriage back when I thought 2% was healthier.

By "sort of" I mean, it's a lot cheaper than being hospitalized for listeriosis or any food born disease.
It's about a dollar fifty to two dollars higher per gallon than regular refrigerated dairy milk.
 
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