The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S. While the agency maintains that the milk is safe to drink, it notes that it is still waiting on the results of studies to confirm this.
The findings come less than a month after an outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu was found, for the first time, in herds of dairy cows in several states. It has since been detected in herds in eight states. ⠀
The FDA is specifically testing whether pasteurization inactivates bird flu in cow milk. The findings will be available in the “next few days to weeks,” it said. ⠀
Still, the virus remains a cause of concern among health officials, given its particularly high mortality rate of around 50%. Bird flu doesn’t spread easily from person to person, but there’s worry that it could mutate as it spreads among cows to a version that spreads more easily among people. So far, there’s no evidence indicating that has happened, according to the CDC.
There is a very big difference between the headline of “Bird flu virus found in pasteurized milk” and the real message “fragments of the bird flu virus had been detected in some samples of pasteurized milk in the U.S.”. Turning potential health hazards and threats into harmless particles is the very job of pasteurizing. That is excactly why we pasteurize milk.
Heck, the virus particles could even evoke immune reactions, thus vaccinating us in a natural way. Just by drinking milk.
Lol. Milk = vaccine is a new one! I admire your imagination!
Not too far fetched. Many vaccines are made with surface proteins from viruses that can be recognized by the immune system. But my guess is going through the pasteurization most proteins would be denatured and not in the functional form.
https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/making-vaccines/how-are-vaccines-made
Putting this in /c/worldnews is a form of foreshadowing
Or fear mongering…call it what you will.
Well there goes my plans to make alfredo tonight.
The pasteurization process destroys the virus, and making the sauce would do the same thing anyway. Just bring it to 150°F if you can.
One of the many reasons people should go vegan. Cows milk is for baby cows. Are you a baby cow? No? Well, stop behaving like one.
Edit: getting downvoted by animal abusers. Well, at least it’s starting to feel more like reddit here. I’ll see that as a win.
Non-vegans are just sick of vocal vegans turning every conversation into a pro-vegan preach-fest. Factory farming is deplorable, but it’s not just a black & white issue.
Ya I’m sorry but that wasn’t a preach fest 🤣
I agree, I never said it was. I was just explaining why (imo) many people have a knee-jerk reaction to any pro-vegan posts.
You’re free to support animal genocide. Just don’t pretend you’re a good person if you do.
Plants and fungi are alive too.
The only way to stop killing, is to stop living.
The solution is to be mindful of our food, to respect it’s life, be thankful in its death.
What I eat, I sacrifice to me, and it lives on through me.
If you respect animals, you wouldn’t abuse and murder them just to satisfy your needs. Especially when you can satisfy those needs in harmless ways.
And it’s not about being alive or not. Bacteria are alive as well. It’s about sentient live. Animals that can feel, think, etc.
Plants respond and react stressfully to being cut and chewed and digested.
To ignore this is just as bad as ignoring the plight of animals.
You don’t have to be thankful for the food that you eat and sacrifice for your life, but I will. If you are vegan then you are already aware of some of this plight of life, especially the cruelty of factory farm animals, but I ask you to expand your mind to the plight of all living things.
I know that when I thank my food, especially fresh plants, that I can feel a warmth of gratefulness radiate from my stomach. I recommend you try it with your next salad and when you are at your garden.
I want my animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and all life that I interact with to live happy and fulfilling lives.
The ones I eat to continue my happy and fulfilling life I am especially grateful for.
It will be a constant struggle to ensure my food and all life I interact with is happy and fulfilled, and to reflect deeply on what I can change and improve when it is not.
Humans are uniquely capable to manage and ensure quality of life for ecosystems . The water, the soil, the air, the plants, the fungi, the animals. We can choose the well trotted path to exploit, or we can choose the harder path to heal and maintain.
My solution is to operate a homestead where I can ensure the food I eat and use have a quality happy fulfilling life, and a simple swift painless transfer of life to me and those I can provide for.
If you want people to listen to you, try copy & pasting something worth reading, is relevant to the subject, not biased, and based on (relevant) facts. Good luck in the future.
How do you find the vegan?
By looking for logically sound and ethical comments?
Gender-neutral dude, you have got to learn not to fall for these traps and not present yourself as the “angry vegan” in the world. Nobody likes a militant of anything and no one will listen to a snarky message.
I understand you’re passionate, and you are free to educate people on your beliefs if organically prompted in conversation, but you need to de-escalate the judgment and harshness to be taken seriously.
If you’re not a troll, ai, or a Russian bot, please take this comment with gentle kindness.
Their message was hardly “angry vegan” 🤣 i think some defensive overreacting is happening
Are you a baby cow? No? Well, stop behaving like one.
To someone drinking milk comes off pretty aggressive.
We’re literally the only species to drink another species milk. And you think the person criticizing your action is aggressive? I get you have a victim complex but seriously, are you a baby cow? Because if that comes off as aggressive, you may need to take a break from the internet for a while.
We’re literally the only species to drink another species milk
And we’ve been doing it so long that it affected human evolution, allowing many of us to digest lactose into adulthood.
Find the one who is constantly critical, not just of tech bros? Lol. I think people have forgotten how to be critical of their actions and then judge those with a healthy dose of it. It’s up to the individual but comments like these divide more than help. Maybe read a book or try to not be as antagonistic online. Start with just 1 day!
Also, that’s like the ketchup on white bread of vegan jokes
And knock knock jokes are typically not that funny once you pass a certain age. Lol. I get that it’s a joke, and have (spoiler) even heard it before! It shows more about the person making the joke I think. Maybe reach a little higher, use those tippy toes!
Nah, not worth the time
