• Paddzr@lemmy.world
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      11 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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        10 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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          10 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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          10 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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          10 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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        10 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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          10 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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            10 days ago

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