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Poll: Untested Bird Flu Dairy Boycott
Will you stop buying dairy until producers get bird flu testing certification in place?
- talldayo 2y agoSir, I drink pasteurized milk.
- downvotetruth 2y agoSir, the poll was created to be specific to dairy. ;)
- downvotetruth 2y agoAdding as a comment as the text of URLs do not embed in an anchor element in the text field of a submission: Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40861226 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40861226
- Teknomancer 2y agoTwo words; Ultra Pasteurized.
- downvotetruth 2y agoThe intent for the boycott is not to prevent oral transmission from drinking milk, but rather to force herds to be tested to stop the respiratory spread of bird flu within state borders. Also, ultra pasteurization has additional negative effects compared to pasteurization; see for more: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10063903/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10063903/
- talldayo 2y agoApparently respiratory transmission to humans is not a relevant concern: https://news.wisc.edu/raw-milk-is-risky-but-airborne-transmission-of-h5n1-from-cows-milk-is-inefficient-in-mammals/ https://news.wisc.edu/raw-milk-is-risky-but-airborne-transmi...