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mike_c

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29. a friend of mine posted the best response to this story....

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sat Jun 6, 2015, 05:37 PM

Jun 2015

But C. difficile and Campylobacter are 100% natural! I don't see how you can convince someone that hundreds of generations of selective breeding, fencing in, impregnating, etc - and then stealing the milk meant for newborn goats and storing it in an electric refrigerator - is 100% natural and groovy - but heating the milk momentarily to 70 degrees is an un-natural conspiracy.

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Anti-vaxxer kids getting sick with unpasteurized goat milk... [View all] Archae Jun 2015 OP

I feel really sorry for those children. CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2015 #1

$32 a gallon? Is this one of those things where if you get charged outrageously you think you are uppityperson Jun 2015 #2

The Philz Coffee of goat milk arcane1 Jun 2015 #3

The militant organics crowd wonders wht people think they are nuts MattBaggins Jun 2015 #9

That's probably a little on the high side, but not that far off Major Nikon Jun 2015 #13

Goat milk is not mass produced by agribiz MH1 Jun 2015 #19

Many people don't understand the differences between raw milk and pasteurized milk Major Nikon Jun 2015 #20

Indeed, and if more than a few days old, goat milk gets pungent and is good to heat and make into uppityperson Jun 2015 #21

If I am not mistaken - we started pasteurizing milk because of TB. jwirr Jun 2015 #4

We started pasteurizing milk because their was little to no other regulation on milk production Major Nikon Jun 2015 #12

I think both of us are correct. Wikipedia says that pasteurization kills harmful bacteria and jwirr Jun 2015 #14

Yes, I'm not contradicting you Major Nikon Jun 2015 #16

I have seen the weight gain issue in practice. My dad was visiting a hog farm and he told me to look jwirr Jun 2015 #17

The OC Birchers are realky into alt med. LeftyMom Jun 2015 #5

Then there's the coffee enemas... longship Jun 2015 #7

PSA on this one nadinbrzezinski Jun 2015 #6

But MONSANTO..... FUKUSHIMA MattBaggins Jun 2015 #8

What the hell is Monsanto? NuclearDem Jun 2015 #18

The article does not support your subject line. aikoaiko Jun 2015 #10

As if the title of the rawstory article wasn't misleading enough... Major Nikon Jun 2015 #11

Free range vomiters? randome Jun 2015 #15

So, were those particular children vaccinated? MineralMan Jun 2015 #22

I know a child who almost died, had organ failure, and is permanently disabled due to Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #23

This happens with many sorts of foods consumed raw Major Nikon Jun 2015 #25

people did in fact get sick and they died drinking raw milk.... mike_c Jun 2015 #30

Franz Kafka was an extreme, obsessive health food nut. He develoed TB from drinking tblue37 Jun 2015 #24

Oh, those poor children! DawgHouse Jun 2015 #26

My daughter was allergic to cows milk HockeyMom Jun 2015 #27

Lactaid is for people with the inability to breakdown lactose, which is... 3catwoman3 Jun 2015 #28

a friend of mine posted the best response to this story.... mike_c Jun 2015 #29

There is no indication in the story, about if the parents are anti-vaxx or not. Archae Jun 2015 #31