Raw milk lovers are spinning the government's H5N1 warnings into a conspiracy theory

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@Kilkrazy

Sometimes things go wrong

Wow, I can’t believe I get to post a core memory twice in 2 weeks!

A vegan cheese was selected to win an industry award. Then the industry found out

Oh my word - you just gave me flashbacks to this masterpiece short film. I was at the Annecy Animation Festival in - I think - 1999. Our company was doing a lot of work with Aardman at the time, and they were there to showcase Chicken Run. I believe this animator was also working with our kit - so we could use the short in demonstrations - and this is as hilarious as it is weird : [Yaourts mystiques (2000)] 25 years ago and I can still remember parts of the dial…

@Kilkrazy

In Europe there are plenty of cheeses made from raw milk

Indeed so. Processes etc generally make sure this is safe.

In Japan I have had:

• raw egg on rice with natto and shoyu - the eggs are much safer than UK/US ones
• chicken sashimi - this one freaked me out at first, but they carry out a pasteurisation of sorts, then sear the outside of the fillet before slicing
• wild boar sashimi. This was down on the southern island of Iriomote, which has never had the pathogens introduced to the wild pigs that other areas have

All delicious - but all very specific to the locale and production processes.

@Kilkrazy

All that being said, the alarming thing about this story is that it’s another piece of evidence of a perverse, deliberate antl-science belief growing in the general population