When H5N1 avian influenza started spreading among dairy cattle across the U.S. this year, regulators warned against consuming unpasteurized milk. What happened? Raw milk sales went up.

Distributors of this unsafe-for-human-consumption product deny H5N1—which has the potential to sicken millions of people—is a danger. Dairy farmers decline to allow disease detectives onto their properties.

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    5 months ago

    Our educational system, our economic and our social systems have failed them and led them to unscientific contrary positions.

    That’s so wrong i don’t even know where to start.

    Our education, economic, and social systems have led them to plainly ignore basic common sense? No. Just, no. religion, okay, maybe.