just so you youngun’s know - I grew up on a farm way back when. Brucellosis has been around for many moons! Locals called it “Bangs” back then.
When I was about 6, some poor farmer in our county had the misfortune to have a few cows come up with the bacterial infection. The word went out around the county, and my dad brought a home pasteurizer, so we could pasteurize the healthy raw milk from our pristine herd, “just in case”, right?
The pateurized milk tasted nothing like the sweet raw milk I was used to at 6 years of age. It had a burnt rubber under taste. I never got over it, and do not drink commercial milk to this day.
Maybe if I had my own cow, and could drink milk in it’s natural state, I would. But, I don’t think “independent senior living” would let me tie Bossie out to my patio porch!
I am reminded go the song about parking lots... “you don’t know what you have until it is gone”...
It is interesting that they are trying their best to scare the kids/ignorant city dwellers with this latest “we’re all gonna die unless we let the .gov run our lives” nonsense. We have raised a couple of generations of ignoramuses!
The liberal loons who apparently don’t think we have enough dogs in shelters HERE are importing it, along with other deadly diseases.