• Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    Back in my day we used to boil the milk for safety.

    Oh wait … they still do that.

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    fun fact: milk in a lot of countries are ALLOWED to contain somatic cells (think the pus that comes out of pimples when you squeeze them). It’s a high number of somatic cells per ml. Got milkpus?

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    This is horrible.

    I really wish the government would release some kind of guidance or documentation on the safe processing and packaging of milk so this sort of thing could be prevented. Really a shame that nobody does anything here, these poor innocent people probably had no idea their milk might possibly be contaminated…

    oh wait…

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      So I have this book from the dark ages that tells you how to do a bunch of old timey farm things. You’ll never guess what it says to do with raw milk: BOIL IT.

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        ‘Book’? What is that?

        Oh wait I heard about those, it’s a stack of cellulose pulp sheets with markings on them right?

        I know some people say they are useful for something but I can’t imagine what, as nobody ever taught me how to read them.

        Pass the milk?

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          it’s a stack of cellulose pulp sheets with markings on them right?

          That was way too literate for the tone you intended

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    11 hours ago

    These people are so stupid and if they were not endangering children I could be content to watch them keep trying to kill themselves.

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      11 hours ago

      They’re endangerous all of us.

      And by all of us I mean the entire fucking planet because, unfortunately, what America does affects everyone.

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    13 hours ago

    I live in Wisconsin. I was hanging out with my dairy farmer friend and for some reason raw milk came up and I mentioned it could easily make you sick.

    This guy got visibly upset I remember and began telling me how wrong I was and that he knew better since he was a dairy farmer. I didn’t press it but I knew that’s the entire reason we pasteurize it.

    Fuck you Chris you idiot 😂

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    12 hours ago

    I get ultra-pasteurized milk.

    I’ve only seen it in the half-gallon cardboard boxes, not the plastic one-gallon containers. But, I only go through half-a gallon a week, so I’ve never looked too hard for ultra-pasteurized in the plastic containers.

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      they usually state it on the carton if UPM, and i see mostly few brands that solely sell it. most other brands sell the pastuerized version.

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        10 hours ago

        In technical contexts UHT refers to the packaging being sterile and airtight as well, whereas ultra-pasteurization is more specific to the product having been treated. In common usage they are the same and OP is indeed refering to the same cartons of milk commonly sold around the world.