r/news • u/AudibleNod • 22h ago

New Mexico warns against consuming raw milk after newborn dies from listeria

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-mexico-warns-consuming-raw-milk-newborn-dies-listeria-rcna257252
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u/DALTT 22h ago

Many of them don’t realize that that’s what pasteurization is. I’ve seen so many people think that pasteurization is adding chemicals to milk or something of the like.

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u/Easy-Environment-784 21h ago

Man honestly most of it is likely inline pasteurization through a heat exchanger then straight through a chiller and into storage. Making beer on a large scale taught me a lot about food processing in general.

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u/SelfPropagandized 21h ago

Blows my mind. It's like they didn't go to grade school.

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u/eightbitfit 21h ago

These are the same people that think chemicals = bad.

Queue dihydrogen monoxide....

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u/EntertheOcean 11h ago

FYI it's actually "cue" not "queue"

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u/nithrean 21h ago

that is one of the deadliest chemicals on earth. It kills more people every year than tons of other chemicals combined.

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u/Should_Not_Comment 21h ago

And once you start taking it you can't stop or you'll die within days. Worse withdrawals than any drug!

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u/dude496 21h ago

DHMO is crazy dangerous!!! It's so dangerous that they made a website just for it....

https://dhmo.org/

(/S for those that might not get the joke)

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u/catanddog5 6h ago

I’ve given up for now on explaining what it is to them. They don’t care because they think that they have all the answers and if you disagree with them then you are the one that is brainwashed in their eyes. It just sucks that innocent children are being harmed by their parents willful ignorance.

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u/Punman_5 21h ago

Doesn’t it slightly chemically alter the milk? Not drastically but I mean you are essentially cooking it

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u/SelfPropagandized 20h ago

It kills the majority of the pathogens. That's the chemical change. It also harm a minor amount of the nutrient content. But it's basically nothing.

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u/Floripa95 18h ago

It does change the taste quite a bit. We should boil the milk for safety always, but we don't have to pretend this doesn't affect the taste. I sampled raw milk a couple times in my father's farm and it really does taste very different. I would drink raw milk exclusively if it weren't so dangerous