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Why Raw Milk Health Risks Significantly Outweigh Any Potential Benefits | Food Manufacturing

Despite an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows, the popularity of raw milk has only risen. Advocates claim raw milk has superior health benefits over pasteurized milk. There is little evidence to support these claims, however, and the risk of serious illness is much greater.

Mississippi State University food scientists Juan Silva and Joel Komakech and nutritionist Mandy Conrad explain the difference between pasteurized and raw milk, addressing common misconceptions about the health risks and purported benefits of consuming unpasteurized milk. These questions are more important than ever, since cattle can shed viral material into their milk. Not only can pathogens end up in milk, but at least three farmworkers reportedly have contracted H5N1, the virus that causes avian influenza, in 2024. Farmworkers can get sick by handling infected animals or their byproducts, such as raw milk.

First, raw milk does not improve lactose intolerance.

Raw milk also does not have more vitamins than pasteurized milk. Milk is not a good source of vitamin C or other heat-sensitive vitamins, and pasteurization does little to reduce vitamin B2 or riboflavin, which is not as sensitive to heat. Moreover, Vitamin D is added to pasteurized milk to enhance your body’s ability to absorb the calcium in milk.

Fortified milk replaces nutrients that may be lost in the pasteurization process. Vitamin D is added to milk to enhance uptake of the calcium found in the milk. No single food is perfect, so it is OK for milk to lack some nutrients, as these can be obtained from other foods.

…Raw milk contains live H5N1 virus, meaning it could still infect you and make you sick. Rather than contributing to your immunity, raw milk exposes you to the virus at its full strength and can result in severe illness. Any protective antibodies that may be present in raw milk are likely degraded in stomach acid.

Moreover, people who contract bird flu from raw milk run the risk of transmitting it to other people or animals by giving the virus a chance to adapt and improve its ability to spread between people. This increases the risk of more widespread disease outbreaks.

Source: Why Raw Milk Health Risks Significantly Outweigh Any Potential Benefits | Food Manufacturing

Deluge of ‘pink slime’ websites threaten to drown out truth with fake news in US election | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

NewsGuard estimates that there are a staggering 1,265 such fake local news websites in the US – 4% more than the websites of 1,213 daily newspapers left operating in the country.

“Actors on both sides of the political spectrum” feel “that what they are doing isn’t bad because all media is really biased against their side or that that they know actors on the other side are using these tactics and so they feel they need to,” said Matt Skibinski, general manager of NewsGuard, which determined that such sites now outnumber legitimate local news organizations. “It’s definitely contributed to partisanship and the erosion of trust in media; it’s also a symptom of those things.”

Source: Deluge of ‘pink slime’ websites threaten to drown out truth with fake news in US election | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

TATI’S TRANSLATIONS // Young Ukrainian Poets: Mariia Lyshen | unbolt me

Tati Translates Mariia Lyshen

Literary classics aren’t always created by the greying elder statesmen and women of the writing world. You know the ones. They’re all wise and wrinkly and impassive, and woe betide the scholar who dares mount an honest critique of their bodies of work.

You see, literary classics are also written by upstart youngsters. These youngsters are full of vitality and creativity. They live fully awake and fully aware during these very difficult times. Nothing escapes their notice and they’re unafraid to share what they really think. They walk among us right now, breathing, smiling and crying, loving and hating, experiencing the full range of their humanity without apology.

This series presents names that you won’t find in textbooks or on Wikipedia, but these are the very youngsters who are creating modern Ukrainian literature right now. Trust us, you will want to check them out because it’s only a matter of time before they become household names. When we go back to these writers in two hundred years, we have no doubt that they’ll be mentioned in the same breath as luminaries such as Taras Shevchenko and Lesya Ukrainka.

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When you have no idea what to do –
Burn your notes.
Burn your notes.
And tear apart the drawings where you’re
A girl cosmonaut.
Toss out the windows those foreign books
Your daddy brought from Cuba.
Look for yourself, you look for self
At a landfill.
Though it’s hot!
Though it’s wet!
Though your knees are shaking!
Though you feel like a painful ruin!
Though you’re mere sea foam!
Though a ghost, though half human –
Life isn’t enough to comprehend
That you’re alive.
Adjust your tie,
Get up and go and pay existence’s taxes.
When you come back –
Burn your notes, again.

Без назви

Коли що робити не матимеш гадки –
Пали нотатки.
Пали нотатки.
І рви малюнки, на яких ти
В ролі космонавтки.
Жбурляй із вікон іноземні книжки,
Що з Куби привіз татко.
Шукай себе, себе шукай
На сміттєзвалищі.
Хоч жарко!
Хоч вогко!
Хоч тремтять коліна!
Хоч ти болючая руїна!
Хоч ти всього лиш моря піна!
Хоч привид, хоч напівлюдина –
Життя замало, щоб пізнати,
Що ти жива.
Розправ краватку,
Вставай і йди платити за буття податки.
Потім повернешся –
І знов пали нотатки.

Original poem by MARIIA LYSHEN
Translation by TETIANA ALEKSINA
© All rights reserved 2024

Source: TATI’S TRANSLATIONS // Young Ukrainian Poets: Mariia Lyshen | unbolt me

♫ Listen People ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

Now, blogging friend Suze kindly added …

The lyrics of “Listen People” by Herman’s Hermits is a message of love, hope, and advice to the listeners. It emphasizes  the fact that everyone needs to have their day, and everyone needs to love someone at some point in their life. The song encourages people to take care of their hearts and to never let go of love once they find it. The story behind the song is that it was written by Graham Gouldman, a songwriter who also wrote many hits for other artists, including The Hollies and The Yardbirds. The song was released in 1966 and became a hit for Herman’s Hermits, reaching number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and number 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100. “Listen People” is a timeless song that reminds us that love is universal and that everyone needs it in their life. It also tells us that losing someone we love is a part of life, but we should take care of our hearts and never let go of the memory of that love. The song’s message is simple yet powerful, and it is a reminder that we all need to listen to our hearts and love each other.

Thank you, Suze!!!  That adds so much more meaning to it!

Listen People

Herman’s Hermits

Source: ♫ Listen People ♫ | Filosofa’s Word

What Happened To Our Simple Life?|زندگی ساده ما چه شد؟ – A Voice from Iran

First published: Nov.19.2020

 

A man was walking on a path and fell into a hole.

He shouted for help.

A religious person was passing by and heard the man’s voice from the hole.

The religious person said: “You probably sinned, and now this happened to you as a payback. God wants you to confess your sins. I will sit here and pray for you and listen to your confession.”

An educated person was passing by and went towards the voice. He measured the depth of the hole, checked the quality of the dirt, and started to think.

A journalist saw the crowd, joined and said: “So many things I have seen which were worse than your condition.”

A yoga instructor came and said: “This hole and the pain you are in are just in your mind, and you can clear your concentration and find peace.”

A doctor saw the people gathering, went close, and after he saw the man in the hole, screaming for help, threw him two aspirins and a bottle of water.

A woman came along the others, sat there, and cried for the man in the hole.

A psychiatrist joined the crowd and said: “We have to dig into your past and find out what occupied your mind that made you fall into the hole.”

A positive person joined the crowd and said: “If you try hard, you can come out of the hole.”

An optimist person stopped and said: “You should be thankful; you don’t have a broken foot.”

Then a normal human passed by, and saw the man in the hole. He went and grabbed a rope and pulled the man out.

*We are just making our lives more complicated every day. *

Source: What Happened To Our Simple Life?|زندگی ساده ما چه شد؟ – A Voice from Iran