We have been taught well by our nanny state overlords that drinking raw milk is a favorite pastime of racist Deplorables, as well as a vector for terrible disease. Such is the consensus coming from the vaunted Public Health™ experts and their corporate media sycophants that we have been subjected to for several years. In fact, when Starbucks puts milk in its coffee, it’s committing something called “dietary racism.”
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Before the wisdom from heaven that is pasteurization dropped — a euphemism for killing all the bacteria in raw milk, both the beneficial and potentially harmful kinds, which just so happened to usher in the era of commercially mass-produced dairy dominated by a handful of gigantic food conglomerates — raw milk drinkers, and aggrieved minorities in particular, were dropping like flies.Corporate media warns that raw milk aficionado Mark McAfee, the potential incoming architect of the Trump administration’s raw milk policy, threatens to undo all of that lifesaving work that prevents Americans from being able to choose what kind of milk they drink.
Via The Guardian (emphasis added):
Mark McAfee, a California raw milk producer whose products have been recalled several times recently due to bird flu contamination, said he has been approached by Robert F Kennedy Jr’s team to guide the upcoming administration on raw milk policy.
McAfee, whose dairy products were recalled after state officials detected bird flu virus in milk samples, said that the transition team for Kennedy, the nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, asked him to apply for a position advising on raw milk policy and standards development. The idea, he told the Guardian, would be to create a “raw milk ordinance”, mirroring the existing federal “standard milk ordinance”.
Kennedy is a notable fan of raw, or unpasteurized, milk, including McAfee’s products. If confirmed, he has said he would work to remove restrictions on raw milk, which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have so far advised against consuming…
Research suggests that milk carries huge amounts of viral particles. “The most infectious thing from the cows is the milk,” said Meghan Davis, a molecular epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University studying environmental health. In some cases, cows that tested negative for H5N1 in their respiratory tracts were found to be carrying the virus in their milk*.
*Here we have one of both the ancillary benefits of, and one of the justifications for, the bird flu terror that the governing authorities have been ginning up for the last year: the demonization of raw milk as a source of potential viral transmission, which I have covered previously for PJ Media.
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Via Forbes, July 2, 2024 (emphasis added):
An alarming 14% of raw milk samples taken from four states with dairy herd outbreaks contained infectious H5N1 bird flu, according to new testing results released by the FDA.
The researchers took 275 milk samples from bulk storage tanks on farms in states where dairy cattle are confirmed to be infected by H5N1. The virus was actually detected in 57.5% of the samples, with further testing showing that a quarter of these contained infectious virus. However, the FDA was keen to stress that the study was not specifically designed to assess the prevalence of the virus in milk and that the numbers might not be more widely representative.
"The goal of this study was to determine what range of viral load might be present in raw milk samples from farms that routinely send product for pasteurization, not to determine state-wide or national H5N1 virus prevalence in the overall milk supply," said a spokesperson for the FDA.
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Of course, when one gets into the fine print of the cited study allegedly pointing to 14% of dairy cows’ raw milk infected with bird flu — a preposterous finding that anyone with common sense should reject as a legitimate public health concern at face value — one discovers that the researchers rely on the notoriously inaccurate PCR scam to draw their conclusions.
Buried deep in the Forbes article above is also the caveat: “there are no documented cases yet of humans getting H5N1 by drinking infected raw milk.”
