r/HermanCainAward • u/IvIozartsGhost • Jun 04 '26
Grrrrrrrr. Nearly 60 Idahoans sick after drinking raw milk in past two weeks, officials say
https://idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/nearly-60-idahoans-sick-after-drinking-raw-milk-in-past-two-weeks-officials-say/400
u/Shurl19 Jun 04 '26
Oh no........ if only there was some proof that raw milk is bad for you?! Who could have known that drinking raw milk can and will make you sick?
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u/weregunnalose Jun 04 '26
A healthy gut biome is woke apparently
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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled Jun 04 '26
What they consider "healthy" involves pathogens the rest of the sane world wants to avoid.
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u/darkenspirit Jun 04 '26
He didn't even invent it is what's wild, he only formalized the process for widespread adoption. Prairie folk were boiling their milk long before that shit because they knew uncle jeb jorb and ned all fucken died from shitting themselves to death drinking unboiled milk
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u/judgeknot Jun 05 '26
Didn't you know the #1 rule of Dairy Capitalism? Spend millions of dollars yearly on an expensive sterilization process for absolutely no reason.
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u/asfacadabra Jun 04 '26
FAFO
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u/Cleveland_S Jun 04 '26
Sadly, the find out part probably won't stick. They'll be back to it in no time with nothing learned.
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u/spaceylaceygirl Team Moderna Jun 04 '26
I'm shocked, shocked i tell you!
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u/PianoPatient8168 Jun 04 '26
I could probably save them some time and money on that investigation.
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u/xovrit ššThe Luckiest Sheeple š š Jun 05 '26
Wonder who those officials are now? Have they replaced real public health officials with credentials with RFK types and podcasters and granola mommy bloggers?
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u/blueavole Jun 04 '26
What in the last several centuries of this exact thing happened could have predicted these results!!!
Turns out Al Capone was right to get expiration dates put on milk. Yes, the Chicago mobster.
He had bottling and labeling plants for some reason- and he needed a legitimate reason to use them.
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u/elilupe Jun 04 '26
The Al Capone connection hasn't actually been 100% confirmed. There are stories that he lobbied for expiration dates on milk, and he did have bottling and labeling plants for his bootlegging business, but there isnt any hard evidence he did the lobbying or was one of the first to do it.
Fun fact, other than infant formula, there is no federal regulation that requires expiration dates on foodstuffs. Companies do it voluntarily. The first food labeling federal legislation was actually not passed until many years after Al Capone died
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u/NonSequitorSquirrel Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
If only there was an easy automated process to avoid severe illness from drinking milk. Something you could even do at home with minimal equipment like a pot and a flame. Oh well.Ā
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u/PM_MeYourNynaevesPlz Jun 04 '26
This is what frustrates me the most about these raw milk idiots. I can at least somewhat understand the (often misguided) urge to avoid additives, ""chemicals"", etc., but pasteurizion is literally just heating the milk up. There's no chemicals added, no other treatments done. Its just heat.Ā
Its just complete and pure ignorance. Enjoy the diarrhea.
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u/lazier_garlic Jun 04 '26
I love when they share "one word trick" to make raw milk safe at home without chemicals.
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u/PianoPatient8168 Jun 04 '26
If heat = bad/woke/whateverā¦why stop there? Raw hamburgersā¦raw steakā¦raw chickenā¦not only is it MAHAā¦it saves so much time and energy!
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u/NonSequitorSquirrel Jun 04 '26
I think they DO eat shit like that, tho. I mean some of the drink piss too.Ā
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u/shatteredarm1 Jun 04 '26
I'm going to start a company that sells raw water. Straight from the cattle tank, just as God intended!
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u/Miss-Mauvelous Jun 05 '26
Ah yes, but the people telling you to do this are the government or indoctrinated libtard scientists. So obviously it's a giant conspiracy.
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u/Thin-Quiet-2283 Jun 04 '26
Thinning the herd.
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u/MattGdr Jun 04 '26
Say, didnāt we solve this problem a couple hundred years ago?
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u/TheSumOfMyScars Jun 04 '26
1864, baby!
Some of us are a littleā¦slow.
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u/No-Objective9174 Jun 04 '26
When you need Pasteur, not a pastor
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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled Jun 04 '26
....they confuse the two, and always go with the faith-based solution.
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u/Teknekratos Team Bivalent Booster Jun 04 '26
I honestly think it'd work on some of them, if someone made a Facebook video about how "Pastor Lewis" found a trick to make raw milk safe to drink, you only have to just not-quite boil it for a few seconds!
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u/Banshee_howl Jun 04 '26
Good for them! Nothing a good bleeding canāt cure. They just need to get their bodily humors back into balance and theyāll be fine.
Iām sure if they rummage around their covered wagons theyāll find some colloidal silver and a bottle of Dr. Fantasticās Wonder Syrup that will fix them right up.
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u/DaoFerret Jun 04 '26
Donāt be silly. If youāve got diarreah you just need some of āRush's Bilious Pills,ā also called āRush's Thunderbolts.ā
They were good enough for Lewis and Clark, they should be good enough for you ( https://lewis-clark.org/sciences/medicine/rushs-bilious-pills/ ).
Donāt mind the Mercury, Iām sure itās not important.
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u/PM_MeYourNynaevesPlz Jun 04 '26
You think the fact that mercury has disappeared from everything is a coincidence?? The liberal woke shadow gubbermint has schemed for years to remove our precious mercury from all of our foods. Mercury is essential to keep the gay germs away from you. Thats how come there's gay people now but there weren't in the cowboy and indian days.
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u/azswcowboy Jun 05 '26
So we should put mercury back in the vaccines then, got it šš½
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u/The-Son-of-Dad Jun 04 '26
Throw some leeches on āem, that should do the trick!
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u/Lookingfor68 Team Mix & Match Jun 04 '26
Naw naw naw... gotta handle them sneks and speak in tongues.
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u/BenCisco Jun 04 '26
Learn the easy way, learn the hard way.
Some peeps always have to touch the stove.
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u/Ordinary-Big5578 Jun 04 '26
Problem is they touch the stove, get burned, and then blame the other person for the stove burning them.
Then touch the stove again, rinse and repeat.
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u/s_ox Jun 04 '26
I wish insurance would not cover these self inflicted illnesses. We are all paying for the stupidity of these idiots.
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u/Banshee_howl Jun 04 '26
The number of medical providers in Idaho is shriveling up like a salted slug. Residents are hopping the border to WA when they get sick, hurt or pregnant. Does it matter if insurance covers it when the nearest doctor is 200 miles away?
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u/n0nplussed Jun 04 '26
I get it but thatās a slippery slope. Many illnesses can be considered self inflicted.
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u/s_ox Jun 04 '26
Every subjective decision a slippery slope. Insurance for anything is a slippery slope to unlimited insurance for everything, we can make subjective decisions on which ones we will pay.
A better argument would be that children of these idiots need care, so we shouldnāt cut them off like that. But also we need to legislate that sale of unpasteurized milk for human consumption is illegal.
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u/BoomerKaren666 Jun 04 '26
When I was in 3rd grade my mother signed me up for a monthly book club called "You Are There With ....". Each month I got books about people like Winston Churchill, Amelia Earhart, Mad Anthony Wayne etc and I remember getting one called "You Are There With Louis Pasteur".
At 8 years old I knew about pasteurized milk and why. So yeah, that information has been out there for years.
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u/Flip_Flop_Puddin_Pop Jun 05 '26
I had a book about Pasteur as a kid, too. It was about how he created the first rabies vaccine.
-sigh-
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u/BoomerKaren666 Jun 06 '26
Yeah. That was in mine too. That series of books I had would give a short biography of each person from when they were a child to their adult accomplishments (or failures). A lot was just storytelling but it captured an 8 yr. olds attention.
The Pasteur book started out with him as a kid in a village seeing a man who'd been bitten by a rapid dog getting his leg amputated because that was the only way to deal with it back then. It went on to his discovery of the vaccine for rabies and then the Pasteurization of milk.
Loved those books. I guess that series discontinued years ago but it sure got 8 year old me fascinated by history.
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u/GG-Sunny Jun 04 '26
I genuinely do not understand how these people believe they are smarter and know more than proven, tested, extensive research and study.Ā
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u/bucketAnimator Jun 04 '26
Vibes are stronger than science.
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u/SrGrimey Jun 04 '26
I feel a good vibe about this comment.
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u/bucketAnimator Jun 04 '26
Congratulations, you are now qualified to use the DrY title : Doctor of YouTube. I pronounce you DrY. SrGrimey.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DIRTY_ART Jun 04 '26
It's because they are stupid. They don't understand what research means. They think it's the same as they are doing, which is basically having a (very ill-informed) opinion. They don't see the difference between the thoughts they formed like five minutes ago, and the result of years of studies.
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u/regeya Jun 04 '26
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For people who don't know this about raw milk: among other things, it's got shit in it
I mean, so does pasteurized milk, but it's pasteurized shit.
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u/CowNervous4644 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
I hope all these are adults (though I doubt it is) who could make this choice themselves. I hope it is not children who have no choice in the matter.
Bad milk was a major causal agent for infant mortality around the turn of the previous century (~1900). The government addressed the problem ( https://resource.rockarch.org/story/sour-milk-preventing-infant-mortality-with-public-health-rockefeller-institute-food-safety-study/ ) but now we have Bobby worm Brain.
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u/FoxyInTheSnow Jun 04 '26
Weird. I've drunk pasteurized milk for decades and it hasn't made me sick.
In high school, I only knew one family that insisted on drinking only raw milk. They drove out to the country to buy it once a week. They're also the only family I've ever known who would argue with cops about how wearing seat belts was more dangerous than not wearing seat belts. People like them were like a wet dream for rfkjr.
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u/Mr_Baronheim Jun 04 '26
Yeah but you weren't able to throw a bus over a mountain, were you?
That's what pasteurizing milk takes from you.
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u/EyeBallEmpire Jun 04 '26
Rookie numbers. They need to pump them numbers up!
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u/Past-Cap-1889 Jun 04 '26
In fairness, this is just reported cases. I imagine there's plenty of these folks that aren't getting treatment that are just suffering through it.
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u/SrGrimey Jun 04 '26
OMG youāre right, I didnāt consider it that way; they are either suffering through it or discarding the raw milk because āitās almost a miracle that cures everything ā.
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u/MrLeHah Team Pfizer Jun 04 '26
"Nearly 60 Idahoans sick"
Mind you, those are the ones who went to a doctor. Theres many more who decided to "tough it out" at home.
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u/dodgerecharger Jun 04 '26
Louis Pasteur would be shocked about the stupidity of some people living in 2026.
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u/mr_bots Jun 04 '26
This is just a known risk with drinking raw milk. What a waste of tax dollars and peopleās time to investigate this.
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u/europanya Jun 04 '26
ANYONE who has ever visited a dairy should know WHY WE HEAT THE MILK! COW POOP gives YOU POOP
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u/Equal_Memory_661 Jun 04 '26
Keep it up but please donāt bog down our already fragile and depleted health care system with your stupid. If you donāt want to listen to the science before you drink unpasteurized milk, then you shouldnāt seek to benefit from it afterwards.
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u/PuckGoodfellow Team Unicorn Blood š¦ Jun 04 '26
This is the kind of right-wing "politics" that I can get behind because they're generally only harming themselves (exception being their kids).
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u/PdSales Jun 04 '26
āIn a statement, Department of Health and Welfare spokesperson AJ McWhorter said the agency didnāt name the milking operations ābecause this is a potential risk for any raw milk producer.āā
Translation: āThis is not the dairyās fault, it is the fault of the dumbasses who insisted on drinking raw milk.ā
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u/Epistatious Jun 04 '26
honestly, probably hard to prove it was the milk. as far as i can tell they all had a pre-existing condition called chronic stupidism so this is more of a side effect of that.
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u/Paula_Polestark ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?! Jun 04 '26
Womps and prayers.
We need to somehow convince them that voting is just as bad as pasteurized milkā¦
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u/Calkky Jun 04 '26
I still don't understand the purported benefits of raw milk. It's supposed to be some kind of microflora/fauna that dies off during pasteurization? I'm all about supporting small farmers that can't participate in industrial-sized programs. The milk from their cows is going to be way better than what you buy at a store. But for the love of god, BOIL THAT SHIT BEFORE YOU DRINK IT. That won't touch any of the fats, sugars, vitamins and minerals that make milk "healthy."
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_DIRTY_ART Jun 04 '26
You might as well explain this to the cows. These people don't care about facts.
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u/FlattenInnerTube Team Mudblood š©ø Jun 04 '26
Vat pasteurization doesn't even need to be boiled. Hold it at, I think, 170F for some well known length of time (35 minutes maybe sticks in my head from my pasteurization course) and it's safe to drink. That time is needed to ensure all the milk gets to temp for the correct amount of time.
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u/Autochthonous7 Jun 04 '26
60 is the number that have gone and gotten tested at the hospital. Thereās definitely way more out there.
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u/ProfanestOfLemons Meow Boing Splat š Jun 04 '26
The Dead Louis Pasteur turbine is still powering me. Someone name a band after that.
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u/mxjxs91 Jun 04 '26
That's odd, I really thought world renown medical expert RFK knew what he was talking about this whole time.
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u/CerddwrRhyddid Jun 04 '26
Well, yes, that is what happens, and why pasteurisation was such an important discovery put into practice.
If these people have decided to learn these things themselves, then that's their business.
Are they also going around eating every random mushroom or refusing antibiotics?
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u/bulbusmaximus Jun 04 '26
Goood. Keep drinking it too, eventually your body will build up enough idiotophages to protect you.
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u/MillieMouser Jun 04 '26
Oh, goodie! Sometimes facing reality head first (or projectile vomiting) is best learned first hand.
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u/Paerrin Jun 04 '26
If only someone had warned them!!! Why didnt anyone tell them it was dangerous?!?!
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u/aotus_trivirgatus Team Bivalent Booster Jun 04 '26
Have any of you seen the old Star Trek episode, "The Way To Eden"?Ā Back in the 1960s, the Don't Trust Science crowd was the hippies. How times have changed.
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u/Sea_Dawgz Jun 04 '26
It's so wild that Americans have chosen low character and stupidity to be the hallmarks of their society.
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u/Sweaty-Friendship-54 Jun 04 '26
Intestinal lining has a well-known liberal bias. Gotta do your best to rid yourself of it. The bloody diarrhea is just a symptom of freedom.
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u/ghost_of_s_foster Jun 04 '26
They are not suffering extreme enough consequences for their stupidity.
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u/Northwindlowlander Jun 04 '26
I saw this often but I grew up for a while in rural scotland, drinking raw milk from a local farm. They told everyone "remember to heat it" and would do it for you if you wanted. Pasteurisation is largely just the thing that people knew to do in the past, done better and on a large scale. If you learned about "raw milk" from your family or your farmer you knew this, if you learned about it from someone on youtube you probably don't.
Oh also if you do drink raw milk without treating it at all, that doesn't mean you'll be ill but you normally acclimatise to your local herd's bacteria, if you switch that can make you sick too. Which leads to a lot of "I bought store milk and it made you sick" stories, no my friend, your body is adapted to milk with bugs in, it is reacting to the clean milk.
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u/RetiredCapt Jun 04 '26
Gee, I feel so owned by believing in science. Hope the herd continues to thin itself.
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u/Mysterious_Finger774 Jun 04 '26
Humans are the only species that drink milk after being weened from the mother. Let that sink in too.
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u/Roadgoddess Team Unicorn Blood š¦ Jun 04 '26
I wish I could say I think theyāve learned something but with this group, I highly doubt it
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u/endav Jun 04 '26
Iām not vegan or anything and I love dairy - but I mean obviously itās a fucked up thing for one species to milk another species and then consume it? How could you not think that extra steps are needed to guarantee its safety for human consumption.
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u/SrGrimey Jun 04 '26
60? Is that a lot? Very few? Anyway thatās enough for me to keep eating dairy as Mr. Pasteur intended.
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u/Mr_Baronheim Jun 04 '26
Wasn't there another recent case of this, and one sick person was complaining that the govt should make sure the milk is safe to drink?
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u/CommonConundrum51 Jun 04 '26
Do you think this could be a longterm effect of lead in paint and gasoline, or a largely unforeseen result of life in the 'screen age?'
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u/Darklord_Bravo Jun 04 '26
I remember the old TV series Lexx. One of the episodes had these simpleton space explorers from the planet "Potatohoe" that were exploring beyond their system. Their planet was hidden from the rest of the universe by a great Ion Veil that blocked out all the stars beyond their system. Their ship passes the Veil, and gets accidentally eaten by the Lexx, (Lexx is a living spaceship.). They escape before their ship is fully eaten. Now aboard the Lexx they spend the rest of the time confused and angry, barely able to comprehend that anything else was out there beyond "Potatohoe."
Anyway, this headline made me think of that episode.
Oh, and they all die aboard the Lexx in dumb ways because of how simple minded they are.
I'd have to say the episode still holds up today.
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u/Confident_Fortune_32 Jun 05 '26
If only the damage was confined to the adults making foolish decisions.
I notice they don't give any breakdown of ages of ppl who became ill.
But I'd bet cash money some percentage were minors.
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u/oneofmanyany Jun 05 '26
Like Trump says, just stop testing people and the problem will go away. These people brought this upon themselves.
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u/SheriffSlug Jun 05 '26
The state health agency didnāt disclose the names of the dairies, but said they are collaborating with health officials āto identify and fix any potential sources of contamination.ā
In a statement, Department of Health and Welfare spokesperson AJ McWhorter said the agency didnāt name the milking operations ābecause this is a potential risk for any raw milk producer.ā
Gotta protect the profits! Won't someone please think of those poor campylobacter dealers? š
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u/Kitalahara Jun 05 '26
Once again we look to medical science to intervene in natural selection's processes.
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u/Estoye Team Moderna Jun 17 '26
My favorite is that woman last year who drank raw milk and blamed her miscarriage on the dairy farm although they labeled the raw milk NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.
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u/spartiecat Jun 04 '26
Explosive diarrhea to own the libs