Not related to Covid, per se, but certainly related to our nation’s growing desire to elevate stupidity….
For more than 130 years, Americans have been instructed that drinking milk that comes directly from a cow’s udder can be dangerous.
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“Pasteurisation, once a consensus issue, has become the latest frontier in America’s never-ending culture war.
Public health officials say that drinking the milk is dangerous, and could lead to a spike in potentially deadly bacterial and viral infections.
But market data suggests there has been at least a 20 per cent increase in demand for raw milk in the last year nationwide, and state politicians are facing demands to liberalise decades-old food safety laws.
This week, the latest bill to repeal an outright ban on raw milk hit the governor’s desk in Louisiana, after similar efforts in West Virginia, Iowa, Georgia and North Dakota.
Politicians were heard mooing in the state legislature as the bill passed“.