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Reminds me of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQ0RFTHvIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQ0RFTHvIo > Dr Suzannah Lipscomb show us the dangerous w
by rspoerri 5y ago
Reminds me of this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQ0RFTHvIo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQ0RFTHvIo
> Dr Suzannah Lipscomb show us the dangerous ways the Victorians adulterated food and its deadly consequences.
Apparently they added something to milk which made it smell ok even whem spoiled. But causing tuberculosis and killing huge amounts of ppls.
- rblatz 5y agoExcellent video, thanks for sharing.
- perl4ever 5y agoAdditives put tuberculosis in milk? Are you sure it wasn't the cows that had TB?
- btowngar 5y agoI assumed they meant that the additives made it difficult to detect that the milk had gone off and so it was easier to get sick from it. To you point however, I don't understand how that could have increased the transmission of TB as that is caused by cows infected with Bovine TB and (AFAIK) that can't simply be detected by taste or smell.
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- labawi 5y agoWatching the video, it seems they assumed TB grew in milk, but according to growth requirements[1], it seems unlikely, and an unwarranted conclusion. Still, it seems boric acid could have caused irritation, directly helping TB infect people. Also it reduced acidification, which would change bacterial population (for better or worse), and increasing bacterial loads of "spoiled" milk could weaken human defences, or not .. I wouldn't blame Bovine TB on boric acid added to milk without further study. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_bovis#Growth_requirements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobacterium_bovis#Growth_req...
- chadcmulligan 5y agoThey used to water it down to - but weren't to particular about where the water came from - the local creek etc.