• Paddzr@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    As someone that grew up on a farm.

    Yeah, “raw” cow milk isn’t to be consumed. You’d be shitting your guts out for hours.

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      17 days ago

      I read somewhere that certain places have a very large amount of people with lactose intolerance, like north America. I used to drink raw milk, straight from the bucket my grandma used to milk the cow. Never had any issues. Grew up on a farm in Romania in the 80s.

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        16 days ago

        Not just lactose, raw milk can contain all sorts of nasty stuff. Seems like you probably had super healthy cows, a good immune system, and a healthy dose of luck.

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        16 days ago

        Most people worldwide are lactose intolerant and the large majority of non-white people are lactose intolerant.

        It would almost be more fair to call it lactose tolerance but English is understandably pretty eurocentric.

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        17 days ago

        There’s more to it than just lactose, they have very high fat. You’d want to at least filter it through a cloth.

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      17 days ago

      Grew up working on a dairy farm, definitely drank raw milk and didn’t shit my guts out. It would if you drank, like, a LOT of it. But seriously you’d have to drink more than a cup or so.

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        16 days ago

        Didn’t grow up on a farm. Still didn’t shit my guts out buying fresh milk directly from farms.

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          16 days ago

          It’s almost as if it doesn’t always contain bacteria, pathogens, parasites, etc. Well done, scientist!