Older story but it checks out.
After the West Virginia governor approved a bill that would allow citizens to drink unpasteurised milk, several legislators toasted the new law with a glass and promptly fell ill.
āIām not feeling that great,ā said Pat McGeehan, who said he was handed a glass of milk in a corridor of the capitol building in Charleston, shortly after the bill was signed into law.
In a remarkable display of open government, Mr McGeehan allowed a crew from WSAZ, a local television station, to interview him as he lay prone upon a sofa in his office, eyes closed, a patina of sweat upon his pale face.
āI think itās probably just some sort of bad stomach virus,ā he said. āThere is definitely some other colleagues that have similar symptoms.ā
Mr McGeehan has named Scott Cadle, a Republican, as the man who supplied him with the milk, an act which may technically have been in breach of the law.
Mr Cadle, who also fell ill, had sponsored the bill, approved last week by the governor, which allows for āherd sharingā agreements. It would allow West Virginians to buy a share in a cow, goat or other āmilk producing animalā and receive its milk raw.
First they must sign a statement acknowledging the ādangers of consuming raw milk that may contain bacteria, such as brucella,campylobacter,listeria,salmonella and E. coliā.
An investigation into the causes of the stomach upset is now under way.
Allison Adler, a spokeswoman for the department of public health, said that āthe distribution of raw milk was in violation of the law and that it may have caused an outbreak of diseaseā.
Can fascists destroy the country before they shit themselves to death? Truly feeling like weāre headed for a photo finish
as he lay prone upon a sofa in his office, eyes closed, a patina of sweat upon his pale face.
Fake News! The picture in the article clearly shows him lying supine, not prone
Exactly! The whole story can be throne out due to the typo.
And I am keeping mine in!
If you havenāt drunk raw milk before and do so as an adult, the milkfat content - which is skimmed off to make cream in pasteurized, homogenized store bought milk - is high enough and still contains the long chain fat solids that youāre gonna get a wildly upset stomach. Of course theyāre gonna get sick. Quite quickly as well, which is how you know this wasnāt tied to a bacterial or viral food poisoning, which takes up to a day to set in.
FFS, I lived on a farm and we drank raw milk but even now, after all the decades since, Iād not slug down a whole glass of it at my age. I donāt even drink whole milk anymore, just 2% (but not skimā¦ that shitās nasty)
I remember this story when it dropped and Iāll say it again: Fucking idiotsā¦
Fun fact: the difference between 2% and whole milk is like 1.6%. Sure itās almost double, but itās double of not much.
Donāt really have a further point. Avoiding excessive fat can be tough depending on what someoneās diet looks like.
Though it is hilarious that many people buy 2% or 1% milk and then happily load up meals with cheese and butter and other things produced from the removed fat!
Yup! Not a big cheese eater myself.
What the real devil with the milkfat in raw milk is the un-homogenized nature of it, and the milkfat chains are long and if you havenāt consumed it as a child, the gut doesnāt absorb it so on top of the stomach queasiness, you also can get the raging, slippery shits.
Iāve hear itās comparable to eating the old Lays Wow! Chips, which were cooked in Olestra and caused āanal leakageā and yepā¦ I got served a plateful at a picnic and BOOM! Barely made it home before my asshole blew.
Never again. Wow! indeed.
Used to have this conversation with my wife because I liked whole milk in my coffee, and she wanted 2% for health, but it wouldnāt colour the coffee light enough so sheād uses twice as much milk. Thankfully now we buy Alt-Milk which is like a soy or oat or coconut mixture that resembles milk and has no " Iām 4% or Iām 2%" on the label, so now it doesnāt matter š
Is the full fat a problem if you, say, mix heavy whipping cream into whole milk or egg nog to improve the mouthfeel?
This is a genuine question because I want to get a couple of goats if I ever get some land, since you can pressure can the milk for the same pasteurization as shelf-stable milk, and I donāt mind the taste of that. Iāll obviously let it settle out somewhat, and skim the creamiest cream, but itāll probably still end up being pretty heavy fat content.
Granted Iāll mostly be using the milk itself for coffee and baking, so it probably doesnāt really matter that much, but Iām still curious.
Itās the homogenization wherein the long chain fat molecules are shattered by the ultra whipping that makes whole milk, cream and cheeses today more digestible for people whoāve not grown up with raw milk. Pasteurization of course cooks out bacteria, but it doesnāt break down the fat chains.
The best separation and skimming canāt get it all and the remainder is kinda stringy and are what, as kids, we used to call āmilk snotsā. It doesnāt rise with the actual cream as itās sortaā¦ snot-like and hangs out in the milkā¦ it will slip right through sieves and filters, so the industry just blends it smooth.
2016 March 11
Thatās why I said āOlder story but it checks out.ā
Iāve never heard about this until today but itās funny as fuck.
2026-03-11T11:03:34.567-04:00
The open John Locke on his chest will always be ā¦ *chefās kiss*.
Itās crazy what people will do to themselves in order to do a thing that theyāre told not to do
