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RipTide275 t1_j26uplu wrote

Nice to see the community support one of their own

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Wuz314159 t1_j26p285 wrote

PLEASE tell me that it's cows' milk and not from his own nipples.

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urbanhawk1 t1_j27qa2a wrote

He's a guy. The milk wouldn't be coming from his nipples.

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Lawmonger t1_j276kl9 wrote

When I lived in CT I bought ice cream from a dairy farmer who used milk and cream from his cows. It was awesome.

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queenoftheidiots t1_j277w14 wrote

I remember during covid when this story came out. It’s a cute little place and the milk is good, and you can get it raw. The best Creamline milk in the area is Twin Brooke Dairy in Bentleyville And Linden Dairy in North Strabane is also very good. Whoa Nellie has the nicest and really only shop.

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tellmeaboutyourcat t1_j27rmek wrote

Do they have a method for pasteurizing it or is it only available raw?

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discogeek t1_j28fgz5 wrote

The article states he has and uses a pasteurization machine.

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gslavik t1_j27556s wrote

In old country if you wanted milk, you'd go to market at 5AM with your own 2 liter plastic bottles and find the farmer who came to town with a few barrels of milk (it was most likely not pasteurized).

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Avaisraging439 t1_j28i61e wrote

Local milk farmers around me who sell direct also don't pasteurize which seems like a massive risk.

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choodudetoo t1_j28ohov wrote

In Pennsylvania a farmer can get a legal permit to sell raw unpasteurized milk. The permit requires extra testing for bacteria, especially listeria, which is a bacteria that is not affected much by refrigeration.

So permitted farmers are managing the risks.

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MCRNRearAdmiral t1_j29unj0 wrote

Can confirm Listeria is NOT affected by refrigeration in the least. While I don’t subscribe to the notion that a non-young child/ non-immunocompromised person should blanket-avoid raw milk, the threat in things like deli meat and hot dogs too is real.

https://www.fda.gov/food/foodborne-pathogens/listeria-listeriosis#:~:text=Foods%20Linked%20to%20U.S.%20Outbreaks,L.

Want to see how the smart folks in Food Science use viruses to actually combat the Listeria bacterium?

https://www.wired.com/2006/08/fda-oks-viruses-to-treat-food/amp

Now go pour yourselves a nice glass of raw milk!

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Avaisraging439 t1_j28onk0 wrote

To be fair, my grandfather in law drinks raw milk from a couple farms down and has never gotten sick, not certain if they do testing but that farm sells to the processing companies instead of direct to consumer.

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choodudetoo t1_j28pelw wrote

There's a fair amount of testing done on Grade A farm milk for processing. Not as much as a raw milk permit, but enough to catch most "sick cow" milk.

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thenewtbaron t1_j27gv3u wrote

I mean.. yeah.. no one ordered him to dump it. He normal buyer didn't want it because their normal buyers weren't buying.

It would make sense to make milk, cheese and other milk products out of it for home or farmers market sale's.

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Finrodsrod t1_j28p1u9 wrote

This is US Capitalism 101. Super tight supply chains to minimize costs. He still needed to milk the cows and gets government subsidies either way. (It's really socialism when it comes to farms)

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flamehead2k1 t1_j28do57 wrote

>I mean.. yeah.. no one ordered him to dump it. He normal buyer didn't want it because their normal buyers weren't buying.

No one ordered him to but dumping was an option in the table

>It would make sense to make milk, cheese and other milk products out of it for home or farmers market sale's.

Sure but adding all the additional work necessary to make that happen is a big stress vs selling in bulk to a few customers.

Dairy farmers usually don't have a lot of free time and those cows still need to be attended to.

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GrandmaJosey t1_j27rlng wrote

This was a year ago

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internetonsetadd t1_j27zhsp wrote

OP posts/reposts articles on shutterbulky, whatever the fuck that is. The user that previously posted shutterbulky articles, including this one several times, was suspended.

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BamitzSam101 t1_j2bjn7r wrote

If my locals could start producing lactose free milk i would be MORE than happy to pay a little more to support local dairy farmers. Unfortunately raw milk ≠ lactose free which = rumbly tummy for me. 😭

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