The health benefits of raw milk - NOT!
From the
US Food Safety blog:
21 sick from raw milk in Oregon; again ‘people missed the boat on one of the great advances in public health – pasteurization’
Oregon health officials suspect two more illnesses are part of a raw milk outbreak traced nearly three weeks ago to a farm near Wilsonville.
William Keene, senior epidemiologist with Oregon Public Health, told Lynne Terry of The Oregonian the two adults had both consumed raw milk from Foundation Farm, including one person who continued to drink it after being warned about the outbreak.
This shit (literally) is dangerous -- more:
Four children who drank the milk were hospitalized with acute kidney failure, which is associated with E. coli O157:H7. As of Friday, they were still in the hospital, Keene said.
Kidney failure is not a case of the sniffles. E. Coli is bad stuff and it can be neutralized completely through pasteurization. Sad that there are so many silly people out there -- maintaining these dietary practices change being infected with E. Coli from a vanishingly small "if" to a downright scary "when".
Posted by DaveH at May 3, 2012 9:56 PM