"Everybody used to drink raw milk on the farm." No, they fucking didn't, they fucking boiled that shit because they fucking knew better, you fucking idiots.

[gwynnion@mastodon.social]

"Everybody used to drink raw milk on the farm." No, they fucking didn't, they fucking boiled that shit because they fucking knew better, you fucking idiots. It's just women usually did that kind of work so you didn't pay attention to it.

[niels@social.data.coop]

@gwynnion
I was raised on raw milk from the neighboring farm in rural Denmark. My parents grew up on farms with cattle, they didn't boil.

Obviously, all the farms had their milk tested when delivered at the coop dairy, so it's not like hygiene was unknown or frowned upon - some lessons were learned the hard way in the early years of coop dairies.

I'm very happy with the supermarket milk being pasteurized. Also, boiling milk is a thankless job, it takes a LOT of attention to avoid burning it.

[thedutchchief@mstdn.social]

@niels @gwynnion My son has a schoolmate who's parents have a dairy farm. They gave their child raw milk once. He went so ill, they never tried it again. You could be lucky, offcourse.

[niels@social.data.coop]

@TheDutchChief
I guess I was ‍️

Not saying it was the right thing to do, just that it was common enough. And this was not in an anti-intellectual environment.
@gwynnion