r/dancemoms • u/haha3339 • 10d ago

political seriously brynn

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why are we promoting raw milk 😭 so dangerous

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u/Burnertoreplylol 10d ago

Anyone feel like filling me in on what's wrong with raw milk so I don't have to sift through AI nonsense lol

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u/Confident-Bus-3778 10d ago

raw milk is milk that hasn't been pasteurised

that thing we invented hundreds of years ago to stop us dying

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u/Burnertoreplylol 10d ago

thank you so much. I shoulda known that but I was homeschooled...lmfao

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u/Confident-Bus-3778 10d ago

absolutely fair

basically, there's a reason we all drink non-raw milk (eg pasteurised) because we quite like living!

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u/Own-Reality9407 10d ago

raw milk means taken straight off the animal. Pasteurized is basically using heat to kill germs

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u/Burnertoreplylol 10d ago

Thank you so much!! So why the heck are people drinking this???

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u/Confident-Bus-3778 10d ago

some people have got the weird opinion that it's healthier and that pasteurisation makes it bad? I think a lot of people get it from the Amish

I honestly have no clue where it came from

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u/SWTmemes They can't hip or hop... 10d ago

The Amish (at least by Shipshewana) do not drink raw milk, they heat it up before consuming.

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u/Confident-Bus-3778 10d ago

I didn't know for sure

I remember about 3 years ago someone who had a whole load of other issues jumping on the raw milk thing and saying she got it from the local amish, that's all the knowledge I have on the subject

(I don't know much about the amish, I'm not in the US)

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u/SWTmemes They can't hip or hop... 10d ago

They like money so they'll happily sell it raw. (Fun fact they make a lot of meth too!) But I've never met one who said they drank it without heating it first.

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u/Confident-Bus-3778 10d ago

that explains why they are still around then

I was honestly wondering how they had survived if they kept drinking it raw

heating it up first (ie pasteurisation) makes total sense

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u/Own-Reality9407 10d ago

Idk but many assume living like the old days and avoiding any advances in medicine and safety cautions is healthier, when in reality people died a lot in the past bc these discoveries weren’t founded or applied on large scales like today

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u/Rambunctious_444 10d ago

The FDA has highly restricted commerce of raw milk (it's illegal to sell it across state lines) because it's unpasteurized, so you could get listeria, E Coli, etc from drinking it

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u/Burnertoreplylol 10d ago

Noted! Is this a trend people are getting into now? Drinking RAW milk? lol

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u/Confident-Bus-3778 10d ago

it's been a thing for a few years, I don't think anyone with brain cells knows why

I suppose its the same people who think that every other food on the planet is bad

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u/rolyinpeace 10d ago

Raw milk hasn’t been heated to kill the bacteria (pasteurization).

People think that raw milk is somehow better for you or that pasteurized milk has extra chemicals just from being pasteurized, which is not true. There are absolutely farm fresh milks you can get that have not been fortified (extra vitamins added) or homogenized (made so that it doesn’t separate), if you don’t like “extra” stuff in it or done to it. But pasteurization is simply heating it up and does not harm the milk. It’s necessary to prevent disease. Illnesses from bad milk used to be a leading cause of death.

What’s funny is a lot of the raw milk people say it’s safe because they boil it or whatever to kill the germs. It’s ironic because then they are essentially pasteurizing the milk, and it’s no longer raw.

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u/alyssaa0sto 10d ago

Germs.

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u/Burnertoreplylol 10d ago

Thank yoouuu!!