I saw an "opportunistic" article posted online urging people to not drink raw milk as they might get bird flu from it... which I thought most people would shrug off as obvious propaganda against raw milk, but I saw it posted in earnest elsewhere so I decided to post this here
Raw milk has a lot of alleged health benefits; the author makes the ridiculous plea for "no one to drink raw milk for any reason"...
Please don’t drink raw milk at any time, especially not now
The problem with pasteurization, as with antibiotics, is the process also kills good nutrients like antibiotics kills good bacteria
So by drinking raw milk you can get the good nutrients without them being destroyed. I know of dairy farmers who would drink pretty much straight from the cow without getting sick. The milk tastes totally different (better, a lot of people think)
The elderly or children or sickly might avoid drinking raw milk, but otherwise it's a healthy consideration for a lot of people
Example pro-raw-milk article: https://www.rawmilkinstitute.org/updates/letter-to-medical-professionals-about-raw-milk
Numerous scientific studies have shown that raw milk is correlated with decreased rates of asthma, allergies, eczema, otitis, fever, and respiratory infections. Raw milk also aids in recovery from antibiotic use, and provides many gut-healthy probiotics and enzymes.
Here's the biased fearmongering article in contrast: https://gizmodo.com/raw-milk-sales-up-bird-flu-h5n1-tiktok-usda-cdc-fda-1851476916
There's an old tale I once heard about a bishop or a doctor or some such who took in a young boy who was extremely poor (presumably in the middle ages, but who the hell knows).
Supposedly, along with other odd tales, one day he caught the boy drinking milk that has clearly gone bad, and he took it away from him, causing the boy to cry for being deprived of food.
To calm the boy, the man in question immediately got him some fresh milk, which the boy immediately tore into, then complained that it didn't have much flavor.
Don't really have a point, just a funny story, though I will say I can usually tell when milk's about to go bad, because it tastes a hell of a lot better right before it sours.
Add a little shot of kefir to your milk --- it basically turns into more kefir.
Some people like buttermilk, which smells like milk that's gone bad.
If I recall, buttermilk is 'meh' for me...been a while since I tried it, though.
I like kefir better --- somewhere between yogurt and cultured buttermilk.
And that is one of the cooler things about raw milk... it doesn't go bad, it just changes form.
there's...a tipping point...beyond that I say just make banana bread/pancakes with it...