Media Launches Shaming Propaganda Campaign Against ‘Idiots’ Who Drink Raw Milk Amidst Bird Flu Fears

Last month the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned that 1 out of 5 of conventional, store-bought pasteurized milk samples they tested had trace elements of deactivated H5N1 bird flu in them, thus prompting a flurry of articles warning that bird flu could very easily become the ‘next pandemic.’

The World Health Organization issued their own guidance, urging populations to consume only pasteurized dairy products and abstain from raw milk.

Investigations are ongoing to understand the risk to humans from consuming milk contaminated with A(H5N1) virus. It is important for people to continue to follow safe food practices. Many dangerous zoonotic pathogens can be transmitted through unpasteurized milk, and FAO and WHO strongly advise the consumption of only pasteurized milk and to avoid consuming raw milk.

The WHO wrote, though they consigned that it is still unknown just how effective the pasteurization process is in preventing an outbreak or infection

Pasteurization, sometimes known as homogenization, is a process in which the milk is rapidly heated at high temperatures to varying degrees, designed to kill bacteria and potential pathogens in the dairy. The process, however, destroys and deactivates a number of important enzymes, amino acids, vitamins and minerals, and other healthy bacteria. The Weston A. Price Foundation has a number of articles explaining the negatives of this process, and the pros of raw dairy. Raw milk and dairy are still illegal to sell at grocery stores in decent chunks of U.S. states.

More recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued their own warning not to consume raw milk:

Additionally, as a reminder, while CDC believes the current risk of A(H5N1) infection to the general public remains low, high levels of A(H5N1) virus have been found in unpasteurized (“raw”) milk. CDC and FDA recommend against the consumption of raw milk or raw milk products. The risk of human infection from drinking raw milk containing live A(H5N1) virus specifically is unknown.

To date, A(H5N1) viruses have not acquired the ability to bind to virus receptors that are most prevalent in the upper respiratory tract of people.

If a person consumed raw milk with live A(H5N1) virus, the person could become infected, theoretically, by the virus binding to a limited amount of virus receptors in the upper respiratory tract or by aspiration of virus into the lower respiratory tract where receptors that A(H5N1) viruses can bind to are more widely distributed…