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Sitting in a pediatric intensive care unit last year, watching a ventilator keep her 17-month-old daughter alive, Emily Marris scoured the contents of her phone for evidence to give to California health and food safety investigators.

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NEW: As Trump's White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵ðŸ'‡ www.propublica.org/article/cali ...

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-- Annie Waldman (@anniewaldman.bsky.social) 8:07 AM · Sep 30, 2026

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Gee, buying poison from a quack. How unexpected

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-10-02 11:38 AM | Reply

Try the raw chicken next.

via GIPHY

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-10-02 12:25 PM | Reply

She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor.

It gets better and better.

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-10-02 12:26 PM | Reply

Not a matter of interest to me, but Laura was always claiming preference for raw milk. Why the recent stories?

Is goat milk the issue?

#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-10-02 01:40 PM | Reply

It's the death.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-10-02 03:40 PM | Reply

I used to drink raw milk whenever we would visit the Emmental in Switzerland. Everywhere you'd go there would be cheese to try and buy and milk and cows and farms and grass and DAIRY DAIRY DAIRY. There was this huge grassy hill just behind the Gohl Cheese shop and we would roll down it. I remember puking that raw milk afterwards and thinking it was just the roll down the hill that caused it. That cheese shop sold raw milk cheeses and some ancient farmer with crinkled eyes and a long white beard would always be standing across the street outside his old barn and want to give you his raw milk or cheese curd or yogurt to try. I think I am gonna go visit there now. If you've enough of the ---- in America go there and chill. Tell them Pumpkinhead sent you- say it in German and they'll know who.

#6 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-10-02 09:20 PM | Reply

"She tried organic infant formula, but the number of additives alarmed her"

But feeding her child a product that is well known for carrying TB, salmonella, E. coli, listeria and many other pathogens was not cause for alarm? She should be charged with child endangerment.

#7 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-10-02 10:58 PM | Reply

Got sick? Then she did it wrong. Drinking raw milk is no big deal. I do it all the time and look at me ...
-Dr Heroin Bob

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2026-10-03 12:47 AM | Reply

Last time I checked, over 60% of food born illnesses are caused by produce (fruits and veggies) but here we are - oMg a pErSoN aLmOsT dIeD!!!

#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-03 03:12 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Charge the parents with child abuse and neglect. Idiots.

Last time I checked, over 60% of food born illnesses are caused by produce (fruits and veggies) but here we are - oMg a pErSoN aLmOsT dIeD!!!

#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Is there a common, easy method of sterilizing fruits and veggies that people are suddenly forgoing at the behest of idiots in the "wellness" industry?

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2026-10-03 06:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

@#9 ... Last time I checked, over 60% of food born illnesses are caused by produce (fruits and veggies) ...

... and what has Pres Trump done with the inspectors who used to inspect our supplies of fruits and vegetables?

Maybe that a look at his DOGE.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-03 07:15 PM | Reply

RFK Jr. Was Raw Milk's Biggest Fan. Now He Won't Return Industry Calls. (January 2026)
www.motherjones.com

... In May 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat in the White House and downed a shot of raw milk to celebrate the publication of the MAHA Report, a document full of AI slop and fake citations that was meant to present the Secretary of Health and Human Services's solutions for chronic diseases and other ailments plaguing America.

Kennedy had been a loud proponent of raw milk for years, promising in an October 2024 tweet that under his tenure the FDA, a key milk regulator, would stop "suppressing" the drink. ...



#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-03 07:18 PM | Reply

- Is there a common, easy method of sterilizing fruits and veggies

Same goes for milking animals.

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-03 07:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Clearly not.

Which is why pasteurization was invented to begin with.

Face it, no farm is going to incur the costs of that level of sanitation as a regular point of business. Not in these economic times. Their product would be too expensive.

Have no fear, your kind will weed themselves out with their stupidity.

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2026-10-04 05:54 AM | Reply

Turdfyck is a drooling idiot

#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-10-04 09:45 AM | Reply

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