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Udder nonsense: Raw-milk confiscations begin
WND.com ^ | May 20, 2012 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 05/22/2012 8:47:27 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Krankor

It’s ok to drink raw milk as long as you had a rabies shot.


Where in the world did you get that idea..........It’s false.


41 posted on 05/23/2012 7:47:19 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Maybe the horse will learn to sing)
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42 posted on 05/23/2012 8:30:46 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: MrB

Funny thing about your tagline now is that ‘Humanist’ used to be a person who ascribed to the notion that man is the highest/crowning-jewel of God’s creation.


43 posted on 05/23/2012 9:12:06 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

That is ironic about “humanism”. Humanists hate people. They love “humanity” in the abstract, but hate people.

I explained it to my kids this way - it has to do with where your source of truth comes from.

A theist recognizes that truth is reality as God sees it.
A humanist derives truth from human reason alone.


44 posted on 05/23/2012 9:38:30 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

Well does the government admit that you own the cows? If not, then they can feed them and pay for their vet expenses! sarc/off


45 posted on 05/23/2012 12:12:45 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"I'll give you my MILK when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!"
46 posted on 05/23/2012 12:58:05 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

No. It’s the prettiest state in our country. They can’t have it. We have to recapture it. I propose it be busted down to territorial status until it can govern itself. Though that might not be a good precedent to set.


47 posted on 05/23/2012 12:59:12 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012)
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To: Utah Binger
I'll look into this and get back atcha!



48 posted on 05/23/2012 1:01:36 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: exDemMom

I spent the first 18 years of my life drinking huge amounts of Alta-Dena Dairy raw mik and never got sick from it...don’t know if they’re still around but their milk tasted great, always delivered in the mornings to our door.

Ed


49 posted on 05/23/2012 1:02:31 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: 9YearLurker
How many people in the US die from drinking the milk of rabid cows in a decade?

Only a couple of people die per year of rabies in the US. For all I know, the handful whose exposure to rabies was not traced back to an animal bite got it from drinking raw milk of a rabid cow. It is SOP to track down people who are known to have consumed raw milk from rabid cows and administer the prophylaxis. This happens every few years.

There is little scientific literature on whether rabies virus has been definitively identified in rabid cow's milk. However, that means little: the most recent human survivor of rabies never did have a lab test that definitively demonstrated rabies; the lab tests were all inconclusive. She was diagnosed based on symptoms. The only way to be sure of finding rabies virus is by the same method that has been used for decades: examination of brain tissue collected post-mortem.

According to this article, in countries where there are far more rabies cases than in the US, transmission of rabies from mother to infant through breast milk has been documented. There is, therefore, no reason to think rabies couldn't be transmitted through raw cow milk. Pasteurization kills the rabies virus; in the countries where rabies runs rampant, milk is typically boiled before use, so rabies transmission through the consumption of raw milk has not been observed.

50 posted on 05/23/2012 4:54:37 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Sir_Ed
I spent the first 18 years of my life drinking huge amounts of Alta-Dena Dairy raw mik and never got sick from it...don’t know if they’re still around but their milk tasted great, always delivered in the mornings to our door.

Then you have been lucky. Other people have become deathly ill after consuming raw milk for the first time. The laws of probability predict that both extreme outcomes (never getting ill, and dying after the first time one consumes raw milk) will happen at a low rate; for the vast majority of people consuming raw milk, the chance of becoming ill is more or less proportional to the amount of milk consumed.

To put probability into perspective: coins have a 50% chance of falling head side up. But it is not impossible to shake up 20 coins in a cup, dump them on the table, and they all fall head side up.

When I was a kid, my mother went through a phase where she had read of the supposed wonder-qualities of raw milk, and started buying it for a few months. That phase ended when she was drinking a glass of milk and found a dead fly in it. Thank goodness--even if raw milk were safe, the taste of it is something that definitely takes getting used to. (I didn't care for it.)

51 posted on 05/23/2012 5:08:08 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Drango; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Gabz

Drango,

You’re good with this right? It is afterall the logical end to your endorsement of controlling what individuals consume.....


52 posted on 05/24/2012 7:47:59 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: exDemMom
Only a couple of people die per year of rabies in the US.

More people die from falling trees. Maybe we should ban those.

53 posted on 05/24/2012 7:54:20 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (When we cease to be good we'll cease to be great. Be for Goode.)
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