The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they are investigating a multistate outbreak of E. coli infections potentially linked to Sierra Nevada Graziers raw milk cheese.
Thirteen people in nine states have been sickened in the E. coli outbreak, including eight who were hospitalized and three who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a potentially serious complication of E. coli infection that presents with bloody diarrhea and fever, according to the CDC. No deaths have been reported, the FDA said.
States with E. coli cases linked to raw milk cheese include California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee and Utah.
I want to live in a world where I have to know that some unstandardized label is going to get me sick or not. Yeah. I definitely want to deal with memorizing all that shit and rolling the dice on things we know, generally, make the population sick. Not just cheese. Why stop there? Vegetables, fruits, meat, fuck it. Let’s make sure we “label” everything and let masses decide if it’s worth the risk or not. Like a game of Russian roulette each time I go to the grocery store. Sounds awesome.
How do people not just recognize this as corporations saying “enjoy the parasites” we’ll sell them to you for profit.
Like, fuck, the unpasteurized cheese you enjoyed that was source from a local farm one time is NOT what the fuck we are discussing. We are discussing massive corporations that produce the majority of our food deciding that removing health standards is more profitable.
No one is trying to stop you from the thing you’re even talking about. I’m glad you enjoyed the cheese. But that cheese is gonna be gone when the massive corporations start selling it nationwide and push them out of the market because “the thing I can already get” just got allowed to exist on an industrial scale because of lowering health standards.
Fuck. It’s so annoying when people try to apply their individual experience to a nationwide level of production and health.
Please stop being so fucking stupid. Holy shit. YOU CAN ALREADY GET THAT CHEESE. That’s not what we are talking about!
I want to live in a world where food producers are held to safety standards… Oh wait, I do, in Europe many normal cheeses are made from unpasteurised milk and we’re not generally getting sick from them. There are plenty of huge corporate nationwide/continent-wide camembert producers in France… They still have to obey food safety laws.
I wouldn’t try unpasteurised cheese from a big US brand, knowing what the hygiene standards and oversight for cattle are like. That said, I’ve regularly eaten unpasteurised cheese from Spain, France and the Netherlands and I don’t think those need to be banned (in the EU or their respective countries). I don’t think they’re comparable to unpasteurised cheese from the US though, especially since the budget cuts to the FDA.
the point is saying unpasteurised cheese is always horribly unsafe is to me wrong. it can be done relatively safely, but in the US currently it will not be done safely.
I’ve had raw milk still warm from the cow, literally watched it get milked. The majority of people don’t understand the problems that arise between udder and grocery store shelf are why we need safety regulations or any kind of nuance.
I admit this rant was too boring to read the whole thing but hopefully you realize that most of the entire world does not require pasturizing cheese. You’ve got a lot of work ahead of you if that’s your goal. In the meantime I’d read the labels carefully.