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>albeit still gross, IMHO

are raw fruits/vegetables yucky to you too?

Why do you make that comparison? It seems absurd to me.

pasteurization is just a heat treatment to remove bacteria. it isn't some fancy filtering process to remove the yucky bits.

fruits and vegetables are covered in bacteria too.

Fruits and vegetables are not liquid.

And uncooked vegetables are indeed a large source of food borne illness.

Rare steak is fine, rare chicken is not.

Your analogy is really bad.

>Fruits and vegetables are not liquid.

and that is relevant how?

>And uncooked vegetables are indeed a large source of food borne illness.

so they are yucky too, after all?

>Rare steak is fine, rare chicken is not.

and that is relevant how?

>Your analogy is really bad.

thank you for your valuable input

> and that is relevant how?

Because it demonstrates some raw things are fine, and some raw things kill you? Like... duh?

I mean what are you really arguing here? We eat some raw stuff so that means anything raw, including milk, is perfectly safe to drink?

Just on it's surface that's such an absurd argument that I honestly doubt any human beings on Earth believe that. We're all well aware many raw substances are dangerous.

>I mean what are you really arguing here?

I'm arguing that if you find "raw" milk gross, then raw fruits and vegetables are gross too. washing them (i.e. splashing them with cold water for a few seconds under the sink) doesn't eradicate the bacteria crawling all over.

I don't understand why do you and the other poster sperg out about raw meat. I never said a damn thing about raw meat. no one eats raw meat, but millions of people drink "raw" milk. we drank "raw" milk for a few thousand years. "raw" milk is just milk.

and people died of dysentery and cholera and brucellosis and tuberculosis and typhoid and listeria and and anthrax and scarlet fever for those thousands of years. Then, we figured out that bacteria causes those diseases, we can kill that bacteria with a process, and now there's milk that is safe to drink, and milk that is not safe to drink, creating the concept of raw milk and pasteurized milk. raw meat is pink and cooked meat isn't but unfortunately for us, raw milk and pasteurized milk are both white

as far as eating raw meat, I ate sushi a few days ago.

Some of them. It's a personal preference thing.

I don't drink raw milk because it weirds me out, but if other people want to I'm not going to tell them they can't. I'm not going to drink raw eggs like Rocky, but if somebody else wants to they can have at it as far as I'm concerned. And I certainly don't think the sale of raw eggs should be banned to stop them.

Absolutely WILD response. Its easy to was the dirt off a fruit or vegetable. Drinking raw milk is like eating fruit or vegetable with feces on it still.

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