Essentially, for Republicans, it seems like avoiding raw milk is the new masking — and they’re just not going to do it in order to prove a point.
For instance, in April, Infowars host Owen Shroyer called the Food and Drug Administration a “gangster mafia” who wanted to “make raw milk illegal.”
“So, now that more people are going to local farms and farmers markets and consuming raw milk, this angers the FDA,” Shroyer said. “This angers Big Milk. Say, ‘No, you need to pasteurize milk, it’s a lot less healthy for you.’ See, eventually, they’ll just make it illegal. They’ll just make raw milk illegal. That’s what this is all about.”
Why don’t they skip the middle step, and just suckle off the teat directly? It’s healthier that way!
It’s a conspiracy! Big Cow is getting in the way!
Please no one tell them and let them drink their raw milk and get avian flu and perish.
Apparently one of the conspiracies is that it will cause immunity to the bird flu. It’s like a chicken pox party, basically.
“Why did nobody tell me I would die from this?”
“Do your own research.”
nah, you need to tell them. it keeps them going. they crave that edgy feel
Getting back at the FDA for messing with insulin price freedom by getting rubes to drink unpasteurized milk?
Uh, “new”? The lunatic fringe has been at this kind of thing since at least the 90s. Now, they just might be flooding the zone with shit, as Bannon so colorfully puts it, a bit more successfully and mainstreaming their bonkers position on raw milk to the typical RWNJ, not just the Hatriot Radio/Black Helicopter types from the 90s…
Yep. I’ve told this story before but I’m turning into a rambling old man so I’ll tell it again. Several years ago I got into making my own cheese as a short lived but delicious hobby. It’s legal for me to go buy raw milk from farmers so I did. A lot of the people I ran into while getting it were absolutely bonkers q-nut types.
It’s more recent (2016), but Schitt’s Creek had an entire story arc around raw milk for an episode. It doesn’t get into the black helicopter crowd stuff, though.
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Let em go.
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The knowledge fight guys are gonna love this
Just wait until they notice beef is coming from cattle too … ;-p
Reminds me of ‘Soylent Green is people!’
It’s weird. They used to take such great pride in not being like the French.
Then again, they also used to think the Iraq War was a great idea (unlike those filthy French).
Do they even eat chocolate that taste like barf anymore? Man, if old Hershey was still around, he’d set them straight. Or the other thing. Either way, he’d do it decisively.
Politics outside the US can get pretty goofy, but Americans just seem to be on another level… just a shame that we all end up having to deal with the consequences :(
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With these kind of articles, it’s a safe bet that almost nobody at all, Republicans or otherwise, cares or even knows about raw milk. It’s a non story.
I swear there has to be something in the water over there or something.
You know, I’m inclined to just let them fuck around and figure it out the hard way.
They pulled the same shit with coronavirus, and it killed a small - but electorally noticeable - fraction of the conservative population, over and above the rates that the general population saw. Given that this is a regressive segment of the population that generally tends to hurt the rest of our society, I’m not going to object too strongly if they want to thin their own herd out with Darwin awards. Please, continue “owning the libs” by harming your own political base.
I’ve been at this stage for a while. Popcorn out, schadenfreude mode ready, and remaining uninvolved.
So. If we do nothing, Republicans will go drink raw milk? Sounds ideal! Unless they also want the rest of us to drink raw milk. I’m vegan so it doesn’t affect me, but sounds like a thing you just let them go crazy on. Then we can talk about COVID25 and the rise of madcowcovidbirdflu v2.1.
At least this time they’ll just be owning the libs and themselves unlike with masking where they screwed everyone over.
They just do the opposite of what you tell them so I have an idea: Tell them not to jump off a cliff.
