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Raw Milk and the Collapse of Consensus Reality | how the "debate" over killing bacteria in milk is emblematic of the end of common ground (buttondown.com)

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[–] GraniteM 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Smaller farmers and operations can often invest the time and money to do what's necessary to produce clean unprocessed milk from healthy cows in a clean environment.

Or you can do what a lot of small farmers do: go slowly broke over the course of decades while the government provides for the megacorps and the nature of the economy changes such that all of their kids can't wait to get the hell away from the old family farm as fast as possible.

You'd think that, if nothing else, we'd have a shared cultural interest in preserving that way of life. Hell, put traditional agriculture under the purview of the National Endowment for the Arts, even.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

I think in the future we'll wean ourselves off milk like proverbial calves, and transition to ethical and environmentally friendly alternatives like oat. Don't need to worry about exceeding acceptable faeces and pus limits with oat milk.