The California Department of Public Health warned consumers on Sunday to avoid consuming any from the same lot of raw milk.

Summary

California health officials detected bird flu (H5N1) in a sample of raw milk from Raw Farm, prompting a recall.

While no illnesses have been linked to the milk, consumers are urged to avoid it. Pasteurized milk remains safe, as the process eliminates pathogens, including bird flu.

The FDA has long warned about raw milk risks, such as Salmonella and E. coli.

Despite the dangers, figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for Health Secretary, continue to advocate for raw milk consumption.

  • Python@programming.devEnglish
    18·
    23 days ago

    The raw milk Americans are drinking is a commercial product??? As in like, you buy it at a store?? That is absolutely insane, no way that anything unpasteurized would keep well enough to go through that supply chain.

    To get raw milk here in Germany, you literally walk to a local farm and get some from the tanks they fill up and ship out daily for commercial use. It’s never more than a day old, and you’re supposed to use it all up within a day or so.

    • MacAttak8@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      23 days ago

      Never have I seen raw milk in grocery stores for sale, this is something you have to go direct to farmers for as far as I know. Every supermarket I go to only has pasteurized milk.

      Edit: while I’ve never seen raw milk at chain grocery stores, it seems in some areas raw milk is indeed sold at retail locations. I wouldn’t be surprised if it varied by state or municipality.

      It is illegal to sell raw milk in my state.

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      23 days ago

      Yet real Swiss cheese like proper Gruyere is forbidden in the US because it’s made from raw milk.

    • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      23 days ago

      Nah I’ve never seen raw milk for salmon any grocery store…. But we may see it here soon!!

      Brain-worm moron RFK Jr. thinks we should all be drinking raw milk and he’s slated to take over the US health services

    • robocall@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      IIRC The only place I’ve ever seen raw milk, currently for sale in the US, is a Mormon fundamentalist town out on the Arizona-Utah border. I believe they also sold ice cream or soft serve from it as well. I suspect it may be illegal there too but not enforced.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    22 days ago

    Pasteurization and vaccines are literarily the miracles that have allowed us to build the society we have.

    Who are these idiotic motherfuckers pushing against this??

  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

    Subject aside, this picture disgusts me. I’m not sure why, but I hate it.

    Also, it’s about time we rolled back harmful regulation over the food industry. Who knows why we ever instituted them in the first place? /S