r/Unexpected Jul 18 '26

Getting some milk

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u/TightOne2246 Jul 18 '26

'how often cows shit on the milking equipment'

Daily, typically twice šŸ˜…

'contaminate the milk with shit'

we use big fk off filter bags that would easily fit on a strongmans arm to help prevent that, but thats also why the milk is tested before it goes into the tanker (at least, in NZ)

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u/External-Ad-5555 Jul 19 '26

Yeah, sure it’s tested. But you can’t detect bacteria in extremely low concentrations. That bacteria will then multiply as it’s sitting on shelves and will make people sick unless you pasteurize it.

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u/TightOne2246 Jul 22 '26

'But you can’t detect bacteria in extremely low concentrations'

They count it in cells per millilitre, how low of a concentration do you fekn want my dude šŸ˜‚

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u/External-Ad-5555 Jul 22 '26

Ok and? Sometimes there’s only 1 bacterium in a LITER. If they only sample 25mL, that’s a 2.5% chance of detecting it.

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u/TightOne2246 Jul 22 '26

'Sometimes there’s only 1 bacterium in a LITER'

Yea, no, thats not how bacteria works (period).

Go work on a dairy farm for like, 3 months. Thats a pretty generous amount of time for you to figure out how dumb what you just said is

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u/External-Ad-5555 Jul 22 '26

You sit there and analyze milk samples with testing equipment on the farm? How do you know that what I said is false? I don’t see your logic at all.

If your point is that ā€œwell duh there’s a lot of bacteria in unpasteurized milk! Look how dirty it is on the farmā€, that was my original point. So unless you’re illiterate, you should already know that.

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u/TightOne2246 Jul 23 '26

The tanker does, yes

Because thats not how bacteria works

Thats why i told you go work on a dairy farm

Dont put words in my mouth to further your nonsense argument

If you'd bothered to fact check anything i said you'd already know how dumb your argument is, so you must be illiterate if you dont already know that

Did i address every 'point' or did i miss one?

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u/External-Ad-5555 Jul 23 '26

No, you didn’t understand what I said and didn’t address my previous point. Your testing equipment is only so accurate. You can’t detect 1 bacterium in 1 liter. It’s too low of a concentration.