#milk pasteurization

[whathehe11]

Not me googling how to pasteurize milk as if I a) drink milk, and b) are in a (or will be in a) situation where I will need to diy pasteurize milk.

[milkyday011]

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[misforgotten2]

To give you that glow of health.

Carnation Cook Book by Mary Blake - 1941

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

So are we just gonna gloss over that Jordan Myrick very much drank her friends’ breast milk (pasteurized for the occasion) on TV? That was a thing that happened?

[thingstrumperssay]

I know that this was in 2016, but it's relevant again.

Also the fact that it made it's way to a Reddit sub called "aged like milk" is funny to me.

[thedepressedjuggalette]

In case RFKJR does get control of the FDA and we no longer have pasteurized milk, here is an article from Ohio State University to show you how to pasteurize milk at home.

And here are the reasons why Raw Milk is fucking dangerous, quoted from an article written by the FDA itself:

Pasteurization is a widely used process that kills harmful germs by heating milk to a specific temperature for a set period of time. First developed by Louis Pasteur in 1864, pasteurization kills harmful organisms responsible for such diseases as listeriosis, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria, Q fever, and brucellosis.

The Dangers of Listeria and Pregnancy

Pregnant women run a serious risk of becoming ill from the germ Listeria, which is often found in raw milk and can cause miscarriage, or illness, or death of the newborn baby. If you are pregnant, drinking raw milk — or eating foods made from raw milk — can harm your baby even if you don’t feel sick.

Raw Milk and Serious Illness - Symptoms and Advice

Symptoms of foodborne illness usually include:

Vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain

Flu-like symptoms such as fever, headache, and body ache.

While most healthy people will recover from an illness caused by harmful germs in raw milk – or in foods made with raw milk – within a short time, some can develop symptoms that are chronic, severe, or even life-threatening. If you or someone you know becomes ill after consuming raw milk or products made from raw milk – or if you are pregnant and think you may have consumed contaminated raw milk or cheese – see a healthcare professional immediately.

[pandemic-info]

[The] concern about the risk that infected raw milk poses is not so much that the practice might somehow help the virus to mutate in ways that would allow it to spread easily to and among people [aka trigger a pandemic, but that] it would likely seriously sicken people who drink raw milk from an H5N1-infected cow.

...

Because of their biology, the influenza A viruses that routinely transmit among people — H1N1 and H3N2 — are effectively limited to infecting the cells in the respiratory tract, said Florian Krammer, an influenza virologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.

But H5N1 has more tricks up its sleeve than seasonal flu viruses do; it can infect organs other than the lungs. Kuiken noted that the virus has been seen to move into the liver, the central nervous system and the brain, among other tissues.

Addendum: raw milk CANNOT give you antibodies that would be protective against H5N1. These antibodies are proteins; proteins are broken down into amino acids during digestion. They do not enter the blood stream and cannot protect against respiratory disease. It’s more likely that a live virus could be ingested, making you ill.

More info:

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/no-there-are-likely-no-immune-benefits

It’s also useful to know what pasteurization actually is: simply, flash-heating to ultra-high temperatures. That’s it. There’s no “chemicals”, nothing. But this isn’t something anyone can just do at home.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-pasteurization-and-how-does-it-keep-milk-safe/

[abhijitjneo]

Pasteurization Machine

[jesncin]

Ma'al: can I ask about the menu please?

The bartender J'onn has a crush on: the men I please are none of your business.

J'onn: * blushes and looks away *

Ma'al: * suspicious *

this is a great joke with a crucial flaw! Ma'al, as someone with a speech disability, can't vocally say "menu please" ("menu" and "please" are two distinct signs in ASL). So with that in mind it would probably go something like this:

:p

[foldedchip]

I don’t think anybody is going to read this but I just want to say that pasteurized milk is not bad for you. They don’t add anything “unnatural” to it, they just strategically heat it for a few seconds in a long tube so it kills the bacteria inside. That’s what pasteurization is, that’s all it is. Drinking raw milk can make you very ill and even kill you. People drank raw milk in the past because they didn’t know it was dangerous, not because raw milk is more nutritious than pasteurized. Raw milk is a likely place for dangerous bacteria to fester and ingesting it may cause harm to human bodies, but pasteurized milk is a common animal product that can be a nutritious food source if you’re able to digest it properly. Thank you. Do not drink raw milk.

[sudaca-swag]

raw milk this raw milk that ive tasted firsthand the tasteless water you people call milk in the global north if you had a glass of true milk you'd die

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

I say the below as someone who, pre-bird flu bullshit, bought raw milk every so often.

Ultra-high pasteurized milk doesn't work for a lot of cheese-making things, and it's less than ideal for a few other homemade dairy products. There's precisely one brand of milk available locally that's pasteurized but not ultra-high pasteurized. All the goat milk brands are UHP.

It's trivially easy to pasteurize things at home, and all the recipes I was using involved temperatures and times that exceeded what you need for simple pasteurization. (This is of course off the table until we can, and will, vaccinate livestock for H5N1.)

Under normal circumstances, the risks of drinking raw milk collected under sanitary conditions from animals that have been vaccinated against and tested for the standard range of human-transmissible diseases aren't super high. Testing, treating, and vaccinating herds made huge inroads even before everybody got sold on the "You have to pasteurize it even if you milked the cows yourself this morning. Yes, for real." agenda.

Given the bird flu thing and the incoming Regulations Are The Real Fascism, Actually crowd, and the strong likelihood that the people selling you the raw milk "for pet consumption only" that they claim is going to make you live forever are also full on anti-vax, anti-science, and anti-government-telling-them-to-spend-money-on-stuff weirdos, the odds of the milk having been collected in sanitary conditions from verifiably healthy animals are... not great! They're very much not great! Please do not do this!

[macgyvermedical]

What does pasteurization do?

At a commercial scale, milk production uses a lot of tubes that are impossible to clean well. You can pump chemical solutions through them, but because they can't be scrubbed, they tend to accumulate something called a biofilm. A biofilm is a thin film of bacteria that live perpetually in the tubes and can get into the milk.

This would make the milk spoil very quickly, and could make it dangerous for human consumption if the milk was drunk raw, depending on which bacteria they were.

To avoid the consequences of this, milk producers heat milk to high temperatures (which kills any bacteria in the milk) and then cool it back down to refrigerated temperatures- a process called pasteurization. This causes the milk to be safe to drink and also last longer on the shelf.

[shenzi-hemlock]

I was thinking the other day, if it is imperative that we pasteurize raw cow milk because it’s got every disease known to man even if you clean the udders, why do we not do the same with breast milk for babies??

They’re a super vulnerable part of society and their immune systems aren’t fully up and running. So why the difference??

[arctic-hands]

fuck raw milk my man Pasteur did not die for us to shit ourselves to death just because health foodies are an affront to science

[wizardex-yt]

Song Req #4 - Cheese Moon?

Tyvm @cherryblosom-themed-racoon! As you can tell I enjoy a gouda/good pun. I’ve used it twice.

if I had a nickel for every time someone in the neurodivergent tumblr community suggested a cheese themed song in my post’s comments, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened more than once