Raw milk outbreak sickens 14 in Utah—a state with loose laws, bad track record

The people sickened range in age from 2 to 73.

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[zealite]

Just curious, which of the "legal to buy" things that you're thinking of cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, headache, nausea,and vomiting, which can last for up to a week?

I'm struggling to think of any.

Beer covers 5 of the 6, amusingly.

Source: I was a graduate student once.

 

[zealite]

I thought of a couple of answers to this. Cigarettes might not cause all of those, but they've certainly got a nice list of side effects. Then again, I'd be totally okay banning cigarettes, especially because somebody's choice to smoke cigarettes affects not only themselves, but everybody around them.

Then I thought - raw meat. Raw meat would do all of that. Then that got me to wondering - I wonder how many folks who insist on raw milk are cooking their meat? I'm sure I've got a raw chicken somewhere for the "processing my milk is bad" crowd.

This a good time to remind everyone that USDA considers it unsafe to eat any meat cooked to less than 165 degrees F. For reference, that’s well-done on a steak. Since only barbarians eat steak well-done, I’d say that it shouldn’t be THAT surprising that a lot of people don’t actually pay much attention to what the health department says or not.

It just turns out, this is one of those times when maybe they should.

Edit: someone above mentioned cookie dough, which contains raw eggs, which are also verboten, yet oh-so-common (with occasional negative consequences).

 

[zealite]

I don’t understand the downvotes. This is 100% accurate. Sugar-free chocolate, specifically the kind sweetened with sugar alcohol, comes with warnings about eating too many at once.

A few of us remember the Amazon reviews on the gummi bears.

https://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-comments-sugarfree-haribo-gummies/

 

[zealite]

Why is it a good time to say something that isn’t true?

My mistake. I was led astray by years of (presumably mandated) warnings on restaurant menus. 145 is still the line between medium and medium-well, and many, many people regularly eat steak cooked to as low as 120. I think my original point is still valid.