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thewayneSigh. And it happened in my state of New Mexico.
Raw milk is something that Robert FUCKING Kennedy Junior Mint advocates for, claiming it's healthy. It is decidedly not. It's swarming with pathogens that can be quite deadly which is why the death rate went down after pasteurization became a dairy industry standard practice.
So all together now: Hey, Hey, RFK: how many kids have you killed today!
The medical examiner can't directly tie the infant's death to the raw milk consumption of the mother except noting there's not many other places the child could have contracted listeria from.
What's worse, I just read today that women are now training for pregnancy like they train for doing a triathlon. Including the consumption of raw milk. Thus I expect this is just the first such report that we'll be seeing like this.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/newborns-death-spurs-raw-milk-warning-in-new-mexico/
Raw milk is something that Robert FUCKING Kennedy Junior Mint advocates for, claiming it's healthy. It is decidedly not. It's swarming with pathogens that can be quite deadly which is why the death rate went down after pasteurization became a dairy industry standard practice.
So all together now: Hey, Hey, RFK: how many kids have you killed today!
The medical examiner can't directly tie the infant's death to the raw milk consumption of the mother except noting there's not many other places the child could have contracted listeria from.
What's worse, I just read today that women are now training for pregnancy like they train for doing a triathlon. Including the consumption of raw milk. Thus I expect this is just the first such report that we'll be seeing like this.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/newborns-death-spurs-raw-milk-warning-in-new-mexico/
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Date: 2026-02-06 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-02-06 04:35 pm (UTC)I read a reply, I believe it was on the Ars Technica story, that described how dairy farms operate. This wasn't a huge one, perhaps 500 cows, and it is truly disgusting how dairy farms operate at scale. Yeah, you really want milk to be processed properly and filtered and pasteurized! I can possibly see a small farmer safely producing milk for his family and keeping his equipment sterile and cleaning the cow's udder and teats before milking, but at any larger scale it is completely impossible. But I won't touch the stuff.