While the New Mexico Department of Health said it can’t pinpoint the baby’s exact cause of death, officials believe it could have been linked to the mother’s drinking raw milk during pregnancy.
Health officials in New Mexico are warning against consuming raw dairy products after a newborn baby in the state died from a listeria infection that they say was likely contracted when the baby’s mother drank raw milk during pregnancy.
The New Mexico Department of Health in a news release said that officials believe the mother consumed unpasteurized milk while pregnant, which could have led to the listeria infection.
Officials cannot pinpoint the exact source of the listeria that led to the baby’s death, the release said, but it noted that “the tragic death underscores the serious risks raw dairy poses to pregnant women, young children, elderly New Mexicans and anyone with a weakened immune system.”
If only we had a way to remove dangerous bacteria from milk. We could name it after its inventor… /sarcasm.
On the other hand, this is survival of the fittest. If you’re willing to take risks with your foetus’ health by drinking unpasteurized milk, maybe you shouldn’t be a parent…
The funny part is that some people in the raw milk community have started heating the milk before consumption to reduce the risk of illness. They swear its not pasteurization though, that’s something different and bad.
Can’t fix stupid, I guess. These are the same people that would fall for the “there’s chemicals in water, called DHMO!” meme.
That French, Yurrupeen socialism.
Dying by the shits is the way God intended.
Ironically the French are very passionate about their cheese made from raw milk.
It’s still classified as somewhat dangerous, and people in high risk categories are advised not to consume it.
11 sick in French cheese E. coli outbreak | DAIRYSAFE - https://dairy-safe.com.au/11-sick-in-french-cheese-e-coli-outbreak/
It’s nice that heating milk kills bacteria and viruses; but doing it too much can damage taste and nutrition. That’s why I’ve been experimenting with ways to minimize the temperature and time needed to sanitize milk without otherwise damaging it. The deep state will never get me to drink pasturized milk!
you could filter it but that would require leftist science.
Idk if you can filter milk without really making a different product.
TIL there is a raw milk community? Da fuq
Personally I think we’ll continue to have problems if misinformation is never found culpable of the deaths that they cause. There’s no way this person decided to drink unpasteurized milk alone. Who was her community and why aren’t they being held accountable? I have the same concerns with the head of the HHS, and previous cases of stochastic terrorism. Our system of justice (or what it once was…) is just illprepared for this.
Yeah, the problem is these people bond over being ignorant pieces of shit.
It gets to the point where everyone is supposed to know the “meta” information and anyone who tries to be serious about something is ridiculed.
Man for real. I just lost a friend to this conspiracy bs
Half my family died during COVID before the vaccines were released because they thought it wasn’t real.
Idiots.
Good point. Sadly it’s too easy to spread misinformation and remain unchecked.
Imo these people are often being served what they want. The easiest things to do may be a series of truth in advertising related laws:
A) make chatbot companies liable for anything a chatbot tells a user (regardless of disclaimers),
B) a law that encodes similar levels of editorial process for large websites and social media power users as wikipedia: citations needed for any claim. (Note such a law would probably kill the right wing media overnight, if enforced)
C) affiliation disclosure requirements. For both social media users and websites. Farmers selling raw milk shouldn’t also be hosting misinfo sites on pasteurization.
And finally: D) media algorithm transparency
I’m all for going after people who purposely spread misinformation. But I don’t think this is solely on them. It’s to easy to just blame them and absolve the individual of any responsibility of critical thought. It’s not like information about pasteurized milk and the benefits isn’t readily available. But they choose to ignore it, so that’s on them too.
Rugged individualism is a cancer that prevents us from enacting change on systems.
Some people are so unbelievably stupid it’s sad. On the other hand, there’s very little difference in taste/texture versus non-pasteurized milk, some people think they prefer the taste of raw milk when what they’re really enjoying is non-homogenized milk, which is still pasteurized.
To all the people defending raw milk because it doesn’t have chemicals added: heating up milk also doesn’t have chemicals in it.
I look forward to complaints from the raw chicken lovers.
If only just heating the milk for 30 minutes could prevent these deaths. Welp, what to do.
Overall I agree. That said, I am pretty sure that you don’t have children or you would have chosen a different wording.