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 raw milk has taken nostr by storm lately 
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 raw milk has taken nostr by storm lately nostr.fmt.wiz.biz 
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 As it should! 
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 Always buy 21 litres per week. Itโ€™s the perfect number 
 Holy fuck thatโ€™s a lot of milk per week 
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 Family (3 kids) all love it! We make Kefir too. Friday is raw cream day, just stacked the fridge ๐Ÿซก 
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 Raw milk is a psy-op.

There is milk, and there is industrial store milk like product. 
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 Had me in the second half ngl 
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 Pro and anti big ag both reek of psy-op. 
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 Its not big or not big. 

Itโ€™s central planning & totalitarianism or voluntaryism. 
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 While I get and respect the huge difference between coercion and choice, I become skeptical the moment there's a clearly "correct" choice or answer regardless of who's setting the expectation of what "correct" is. And perhaps in your mind this is a proxy argument against government mandates, but to me it doesn't sound like that, to me it sounds like the bullshit that I hear spewed by some of the hippie commies that I know. 
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 No where do I say correct choice.

Central planners take away choice. 

Whoever you are, I advocate yours is the choice to make, and you know best. 
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 Arguing that supermarket milk is not milk, but is instead a psy-op certainly isn't arguing that all choices are equally valid, but perhaps we primarily simply draw different lines in the sand between enjoying some group camaraderie, and groups flexing soft power by, among other things, congratulating each other in how right they are. 
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 I am not arguing ultra processed milk is not milk. This is fact. 

Ultra high temperature processing

-diminishes naturally produced vitamins
-eliminates enzymes
-modifies naturally occurring proteins
-eliminates the good bacteria our ancestors consumed for millenia 
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 And those are the most important considerations for some, but for others, saying that comparably nutritious and vastly cheaper foods that the free market and economies of scale have bestowed upon is are a psy-op, is itself a psy-op. I know people who are literal commies in part because they think foods too expensive because they think that anything that benefits from economies of scale is poison, and it's fucking stupid. And fuck regulations meant to protect us from ourselves. 
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 > saying that comparably nutritious and vastly cheaper foods that the free market and economies of scale have bestowed upon is are a psy-op, is itself a psy-op.

The psy op is in the term raw milk not being considered milk, and UHT being considered milk. 

I understand โ€˜raw milkโ€™ can be expensive, and I respect anyoneโ€™s choice to do what works for them. 

> free market

If its a free market why cant I walk up and pick up milk without some arcane subscription week ahead order process? The machine is after family/small business scale farmers who simply engage in free market sale of their product. Amos Miller is infamous for his legal battles to simply pursue sale of his product with eager customers. 

> economies of scale

Iโ€™m all for it! Just not centrally planned economies of scale. 
 I used to drink it a shit ton in my home country 

we would boil it and get natta (idk how to translate this) on top of the milk it was so gooood 
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 Why you boil, not raw anymore ๐Ÿ˜” 
 It wasnโ€™t always but I liked the natta the crust thing that would form on top 
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 My mum likes that as well, I just don't boil and chug the thing ๐Ÿ˜‚ 
 I ate it with a spoon ๐Ÿ’€ 
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 Hahahah ,๐Ÿซ‚๐Ÿซ‚ 
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 I guess people enjoy Salmonella and E Coli 
 that just means the stomach is weak n needs to man up 
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 https://media.tenor.com/LfSDeCYyAVEAAAAC/checkmate.gif 
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 We buy 5-6 gallons per week. I drink at least 3 glasses per day. 
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 Nostr likes it raw 
 dis is truuu

the meat is raw 

the milk is raw 

the sushi is raw 

the conversations is raw 
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 [ three weeks later ] "salmonella has taken nostr by storm lately" 
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 Breast is best ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿป 
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 Raw milk sounds like hippie commie propaganda to me. 
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 Mum has too many bad stories of raw milk. Our milk is quite good apparently so maybe I'm not loosing out on a lot. Pasteurised not uht. And fresh <24 hours.  
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 it tastes better

plus it's nice to go to a farm and see the cows and talk to farmers  
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 It's incredible.