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Politicians are like we need to compete with China meanwhile our people are over here like "one bird flu smoothie please"

Oh, man - did that make me laugh! But then I actually sighed. Fuck.

Site tagline material right here.

And canned food.

Hope you have a bidet this time.

I admire your optimism

fitting since fractional ownership is one of the key technologies needed for capitalism

I had no idea. That's fucking awful.

I honestly thought you were full of shit...

cows that get sick with H5N1 begin producing milk that is thick and yellowish

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/08/bird-flu-in-milk-h5n1-levels-suggest-asymptomatic-cows/#:~:text=Initially%2C%20spotting%20tainted%20milk%20was,percentage%20of%20commercial%20milk%20products.

weirdly thick and yellow milk

That's the extra yummy mucus.

Can openers are much easier to use.

why waste space with canned goods when you can have an astonishingly large tub of dried beans instead

It's truly astonishing how the biggest takeaway from COVID rocking the US was that we just don't do public health as a concept anymore

To avoid a panic. The CDC specifically told scientists that had developed wastewater tests for H5N1 not to start testing.

I get the joke, but talking more seriously, a pandemic disease outbreak anywhere in the world is a threat to all. I doubt it could be contained within one country.

Oh hey, I looked into this one when one of my friend's aunts went on about raw milk.

So basically, she's done research on the microbiota of raw vs pasteurised milk and concluded the beneficial bacteria of raw milk can outweigh the risks for non-immunocompromised people. People can still get pasteurised if they wish. Another argument is that products with a higher fatality rate are still legal.

However, the flaws in her research don't account for are this:

• If huge corporations are allowed to simply not sterilise their milk, they will do so, meaning raw will be the cheaper product and therefore more likely to be purchased by the average person, who may or may not understand the risks involved. A struggling family doing their groceries will choose the cheaper milk and possibly put their elderly/infant family members at risk.

• Her research is done with samples of raw milk that are a lot more controlled. The difference in risks between a sample of milk from a healthy cow directly into a sterile vessel into a lab environment is vastly different to milk produced en masse under capitalism, where cows are crowded together in battery farms, fed with the cheapest grains available, and milked with the same equipment that's milked a thousand other cows, and all the milk is pooled together where it's impossible to separate "safer" raw milk and contaminated milk from sick cows are then to be cooled and bottled. Her research simply does not account for the corners that will definitely be cut in an industrial capitalist scale

• Dying from alcohol poisoning because you drank perfectly legal 180 proof alcohol is different to dying from H5N1 milk because alcohol poisoning isn't contagious.

reinventing vaccination but shittier

They're picturing milk straight from a happy, grazing cow earlier that morning, that's been put in a bottle and refrigerated till they purchase it, diseases are freak accidents. Obviously the wise old farmer wearing overalls with a piece of straw hanging from his mouth wouldn't sell you the milk if the cow seemed sick, right?

The reality would be thousands of cows in cages being milked with the same equipment as every other cow, sick or otherwise, and all the milk gets pooled together and bottled and possibly spends 2-3 days in transit.

Just this, yes.