Bird flu transmitted to cows and now in a lot of milk

[Anonymous]

Just this morning - the additional milk tests are in and the FDA confirmed that pasteurization is working. Saw it reported on CBS and the FDA spokesperson also has a tweet up —

CBS:
@US_FDA says that "preliminary results of egg inoculation tests" on retail milk samples "show that pasteurization is effective in inactivating" H5N1 bird flu.

They "did not detect any live, infectious virus."

[Anonymous]

So, what does that mean? People who drink it will contract the flu?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, what does that mean? People who drink it will contract the flu?

No, absolutely not.
One possibility is that the price of milk might go up if it becomes a significant issue for milk herds. The bird flu issue is one big reason the price of eggs has gone so high.

[Anonymous]

Become vegetarian.

[Anonymous]

or better still, become vegan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading the article it says they are not finding live virus, only genetic fragments showing the cows were infected. So pasteurized milk does not seem like a problem. Maybe raw milk is but my parents knew lots of kids that got sick/died from raw milk when they were little—no way I’d drink raw milk.

I thought raw milk was coming back with a vengeance among the health conscious and the biohacker tech demographic, especially in California and Texas. It is really trending as the go to milk product overtaking plant based milks for those chasing theaters health trends.

[Anonymous]

typo ^for those chasing the latest health trends, raw dairy milk is now the go to milk product.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not “jumping” to cows. US ag industry is feeding chicken feces from infected birds to cows. No other country in the world allows this but USDA allows farmers to do whatever they want/whatever is cheapest for the farmers.

Then when the cows get infected the farmers will demand compensation if they have to kill the cows. 🙄

Share your source.

I keep seeing this on the internet but there’s never a source. My extended family milks over 20K cows a day and never heard of this.

[Anonymous]

They didn't find live virus. Pasteurization killed the virus. Way to fearmonger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not “jumping” to cows. US ag industry is feeding chicken feces from infected birds to cows. No other country in the world allows this but USDA allows farmers to do whatever they want/whatever is cheapest for the farmers.

Then when the cows get infected the farmers will demand compensation if they have to kill the cows. 🙄

Share your source.

I keep seeing this on the internet but there’s never a source. My extended family milks over 20K cows a day and never heard of this.

Poultry litter is used as cattle feed, including dairy cattle (as a protein supplement), and treating through fermentation (like mixing with silage so it heats up) or other means is recommended, and it is also recommended not to feed to lactating cows. There's ag extension publications and other ag-associated publications that discuss it. So far apparently it is considered unlikely to be the route of transmission (USDA and FDA issued a joint statement referred to in a lot of media but haven't found the statement) and haven't heard anything about the particular herds involved being fed poultry litter. California prohibits the practice for dairy cattle, no federal restrictions. Not necessarily a bad thing.

They've instituted rules so milk or cattle have to be cleared for the virus to be shipped across state lines.

Nobody is being made to kill cattle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They didn't find live virus. Pasteurization killed the virus. Way to fearmonger.

People drink raw milk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Luckily I'm an almond milk mom.

me too
My 11yo doesn’t drink cows milk either.
We need to stop factory farming or this is going to happen again and again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not “jumping” to cows. US ag industry is feeding chicken feces from infected birds to cows. No other country in the world allows this but USDA allows farmers to do whatever they want/whatever is cheapest for the farmers.

Then when the cows get infected the farmers will demand compensation if they have to kill the cows. 🙄

Share your source.

I keep seeing this on the internet but there’s never a source. My extended family milks over 20K cows a day and never heard of this.

Poultry litter is used as cattle feed, including dairy cattle (as a protein supplement), and treating through fermentation (like mixing with silage so it heats up) or other means is recommended, and it is also recommended not to feed to lactating cows. There's ag extension publications and other ag-associated publications that discuss it. So far apparently it is considered unlikely to be the route of transmission (USDA and FDA issued a joint statement referred to in a lot of media but haven't found the statement) and haven't heard anything about the particular herds involved being fed poultry litter. California prohibits the practice for dairy cattle, no federal restrictions. Not necessarily a bad thing.

They've instituted rules so milk or cattle have to be cleared for the virus to be shipped across state lines.

Nobody is being made to kill cattle.

What is poultry litter? I read litter I think like kitty litter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They didn't find live virus. Pasteurization killed the virus. Way to fearmonger.

People drink raw milk.

Stupidity is a choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They didn't find live virus. Pasteurization killed the virus. Way to fearmonger.

People drink raw milk.

Bird flu is the least of their problems.