Posted on 01/04/2018 6:12:37 PM PST by SJackson
In case you haven’t noticed, Silicon Valley is obsessed with health, or at least the appearance of health. You can see evidence of it just about everywhere, including internet-connected juicers and new medical “breakthroughs,” but rarely is a new trend as obviously flawed as “raw water.” Raw water is untreated, unfiltered water pulled from Earth and bottled for consumption by people willing to pay absurd prices for it. The best part? It’s probably going to make them all sick anyway.
Unlike other healthy eating trends, like consuming only raw fruits and vegetables or insisting upon antibiotic-free “clean” cuts of meat, raw water is actually the opposite of clean. It’s not pure in any way, shape, or form, and the only thing natural about it is the fact that potentially deadly bacteria has yet to be removed from it. It is, simply put, the dumbest food trend to come along in a long, long time.
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As Business Insider reports, raw water is catching fire in California’s tech hubs, selling for nearly $30 per gallon. That’s pretty funny considering the fact that it takes more work to produce the clean, disease-free water lining the shelves of your local 7-11 for $1 per bottle than it does to funnel unfiltered dirty water into a glass jug and sell it for ten times the price.
Proponents of raw water suggest that the filtering and sterilization process that most bottled water goes through actually kills off good bacteria that our bodies may benefit from. You’ll have a hard time finding any studies that support that notion, but it doesn’t take a genius to work out that, even if drinking sterile, pure water doesn’t contain “good” bacteria, that’s a small price to pay for not contracting cholera, Giardia, or E. coli.
The best (or worst) part about this whole raw water trend is that it actually leads to water that expires just like other foods. Even the most vocal raw water proponents admit that you have to drink any raw water you obtain within a couple months of its bottling or it’ll turn its bottle green with algae, like the inside of a fish tank. That sounds just great.
In a recent New York Times piece about the raw water trend, Dr. Donald Hensrud of the Mayo Clinic sums up the burgeoning movement nicely. “There are people, just like with immunizations, that don’t accept the status quo,” Dr. Hensrud says. Raw water drinkers are basically anti-vaxxers. Enjoy your diseases, everyone!
“And how long will it be, aka how much can I make, before the DNR and health authorities shut me down. They may not have those things in CA.”
Not if you tell them you’re an illegal.They’ll probably even give you a grant.
Ahh!... some good news!
Thanks for posting the above.
I was feeling a little guilty for thinking along the same line.
Depends on where you are. I have drank raw well water most of my life but have lived a couple places where that was not safe to do. We actually lived at a ranch camp named Savage Well when I was a kid, and it was the truth- though that water never hurt the critters that drank it, it tasted so foul people didn’t drink it unless there was no other option.
In any case I sure would not buy it from strangers in a jug. I wonder what regulations will end up being placed on it? I would think the liability would be great on those selling it since bacteria can multiply fast- not the same drinking it from the source fresh as bottling it for later.
It’s the bear piss that makes it.
Even one celled creatures gotta eat!
Raw milk is not safe either unless cows are regularly tested. I would and have drank raw milk from cows we had since we only had a couple and knew how they were kept. If someone is running a dairy operation selling raw milk I would not touch that- too easy for cows to get ill or milk to get contaminated in handling. I only drink raw milk if I milk the cow or someone I trust does. Never would I buy raw milk from a farmer’s market or similar. That is just me.
Another sign that people have too much money and too little sense. Affluenza.
I agree, I did qualify my comment.
I could drink “raw water” from my well every day.
So much limestone and shale scale that I filter with a ZeroWater pitcher.
I guess I’m not hip enough for Silly-con valley.
All unpasteurized milk has bacteria in it.
Raw water is well water??? Well DUH. That’s about as stupid as vegan leather. DUH, cows are vegans, so are beavers, horses, & rabbits.
Hmmm, I am thinking my water wells are worth more than oil wells,
Doesn’t compare for dumbness to altered hydrogen angle water advertised in perpetuity in Mother Earth News. I think that stuff is at least distilled so it won’t make you sick, but its promoter surely must be continually losing money. I hope.
Roger that.
I'm blessed to have two streams flowing through my property and both have satisfied my thirst on occasion and supplied water during power failures in the years before I had a big-azz generator.
I have never lived in a house that had city water. All the houses in the country use well water, and I never got sick from it.
My husband was just telling me about this.
There’s one born every minute.
I guess I’m in the wrong line of work.
Bad water, deliberately consumed by democrat Stupids, that kills them.
How is this anything but a Win-Win?
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