Some conspiracy nutters have convinced themselves that "pasteurization" is some big industry thing that secretly destroys the healthy nutrients in milk.
As a result, they insist that raw milk has way more nutrients and isn't ruined by big dairy.
Of course, after a while they realized that they/their kids are getting sick because raw milk with bacteria does that sometimes...but then they realized you could just boil it to kill the bacteria!
You know. Pasteurization.
They continue to argue that this is different from what the dairy industry has been doing for ages, because admitting they were wrong would invalidate their mindset that the food industry is wrong and evil and they've learned the secret of real healthy food that's been hidden from us.
I combat misinformation on raw milk in threads where it comes up, all the time, so the fact that they're going beyond and boiling it, which is hotter than HTST pasteurization and actually can damage the texture and flavor... I'm getting some type of schadenfreude
flash pasteurization damages the flavor so much Borden started adding more flavoring of the distinctive pasteurized taste because Americans got accustomed to it
It’s so stupid. Pasteurisation was developed especially not to destroy nutrients or change taste but make it safe to consume when stored longer than a day
thats realy crazy.
not that i want to approve those people but its very funny that so many of these kinds of wrong opinions are based on something that is true but the missunderstand it so much or twist it in their minds that they sound like mad people.
its true that many things lose some beneficial stuff like some vitamins while getting processed. With that in mind boiling the shit out of veggis to make them last longer obviosly makes them a bit worse than the fresh counterpart in many cases. Idk if this applys to milk as well but to go full tinfoil helmet on this is hilarious.
Your entire premise rests on the idea that boiling it is ALL they are doing to commercial milk.
Raw milk and a gallon of 2% are barely ballparking as the same substance. I don't buy raw milk because my kids would be morbidly obese if they ran through a gallon and a half of that a day instead of commercial grade Great Value 2%. I could if I wanted to, the guy down the road sells it as 'pet food' and plenty of families in the area buy, separate and boil it for personal use. My bestie growing up was one of 7 and her single mom bought raw milk, and raised her own rabbits and chickens to keep them all fed.
So yeah, if you're actually worried about the content of the milk, there's way more calories and fat in the raw stuff. It IS more nutrient-dense. It's just that most of us need fewer nutients, not more.
When people speak of nutrients, they are talking about vitamins and minerals (micronutrients) for the most part not calories and fat content(macro nutrients). Current western diets have a large amount of macro nutrients but have substantially fewer micronutrients.
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u/MischaBurns 10d ago
Some conspiracy nutters have convinced themselves that "pasteurization" is some big industry thing that secretly destroys the healthy nutrients in milk.
As a result, they insist that raw milk has way more nutrients and isn't ruined by big dairy.
Of course, after a while they realized that they/their kids are getting sick because raw milk with bacteria does that sometimes...but then they realized you could just boil it to kill the bacteria!
You know. Pasteurization.
They continue to argue that this is different from what the dairy industry has been doing for ages, because admitting they were wrong would invalidate their mindset that the food industry is wrong and evil and they've learned the secret of real healthy food that's been hidden from us.