ProPublica investigation links Raw Farm raw milk to illnesses

Ned Pyle44

“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital, and they have been sick, but they recovered,” Both he and these kids’ parents should be in jail with bail denied

513eats.bsky.social19

Is anyone surprised? The woman sold a candle that smells like her vagina. She’s nuts.

sarahbethg.bsky.social15

As long as I live I will never understand why people want to drink cow shit. You can never explain it to me. I will go to my grave in ignorance.

DocDeezWhat14

I would be fine with raw milk if it was limited to consenting adults and they refused all medical interventions when the inevitable happens

Tim Hill of Antifa, #FBPE9

Darwinism will step in and stop people drinking raw dairy products. Just give it time.

not all who wander lust8

Lol. it's kind of beside the point but if you're gonna insist on raw milk "largest raw farm in the country" is the worst place to buy from.

elephantgirl75.bsky.social8

How is he a pioneer when raw milk was a thing before pasteurization was figured out many years ago? Also isn't pasteurization just heating milk up to a certain temperature? Not sure how that's considered unnatural.

Jendem7

The thing with MAGA…I used to wonder if they were crazy or if they were grifters. I am old enough now to think they are selfish assholes that know better and need to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. 🖕RFK

loves2read56.bsky.social6

I grew up on a farm & we never drank raw milk. Not safe.

n0nym0us.bsky.social5

The reason the USDA had to make an ad campaign to get parents to give their children milk is b/c in the 19th C, before pasteurization, giving a child milk regularly was a great way to insure they didn't survive to adulthood. Unpasteurized milk is nothing new. It's always been dangerous.

Christina Samuels5

All these "lol drink up MAGA" responses are so f-ing dispiriting. A lot of the victims here are children, who deserve none of this. Also, people are actively being lied to. The fact that this is continuing shows huge breakdown in government trust that has to be addressed with more than snark.

Curtis Daddy Love4

there are a lot of foods that are overprocessed, but milk isn’t one of them. it’s a pernicious lie to get dumb people to think it’s safe.

Celeste Headlee3

Annie, this is incredible reporting. Great work.

Rebecca Brückmann3

Thank you for this great report!

Nouveaux Horizons3

We're subjected on a daily basis to the most awful people.

daughterofwitches.bsky.social2

If we cannot stop it, may it get rid of the worst of us. Evolution in action.

Xeynon2

I think we should prosecute people who give their children raw milk for child abuse, but if adults want to drink it let them. They're thinning themselves out of the herd.

muletrains.bsky.social2

make you wonder who's invested

🔵 Blue Dot2

Two ppl who I stopped listening to a very long time ago.

mhkmhk.bsky.social103

“You must be Mark,” I said, warning him I wasn’t one for hugging. “I’m a hugger,” he said, pulling me in anyway. “I feel like I’ve known you for a lifetime.”. So not one for respecting people's boundaries from the jump

Don Rumgay Jr 🌈🏳️‍🌈74

Then someone should sue his fucking ass right out of business….

I Got Popcorn53

My question is why anyone would choose to drink raw milk. I grew up in farm country. We didn't have dairy cows, we had beef cows. But the neighbors had dairy cows. Raw milk is disgusting.

Angry American Guy46

Wait, wait, does he really think that handling dairy in the way it would be in the 1880s or whenever is pioneering? Wtf?

Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing!38

Your grandmother almost certainly had one of these in her kitchen—a specially-designed milk boiler, because scalding "farm fresh" milk was a common task, and milk is annoyingly prone to boil overs. You boil "raw" milk because IT CONTAINS COW CRAP. People used to be smart enough to know that was bad

Phantom Thief38

Nothing more dangerous being a willful idiot than being an empowered idiot.

Bruce Wilson26

All these people would not have gotten sick had their 4 Humours been in proper balance. Prolly too much bile.

jcpb_rildmiku26

a pioneer in hospitalizing people with untreated milk The thing people keep telling themselves -_-

NeuroFellaMD 🥺 📚⚖️🗽22

No. The pioneer was Pasteur.

Kev the Builder15

And if you're in the ~8% with the HLA-B27 gene, that salmonella infection from raw milk may give you reactive arthritis for the REST OF YOUF LIFE

Sanho Tree15

Who needs lactose intolerance when you can just drink raw milk? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Rob14

He should be in jail, before someone dies

Lea Leander 12

"Haven't killed anyone yet but I just gotta keep trying."

Nadia Oxford12

Pasteur was a pioneer, you dipshit. You’re just a poison merchant.

Pepper Anderson’s Hair7

Good grief! A pioneer? Does he not understand that raw milk was so dangerous that Mr Pasteur created this process! It is bizarre people don’t know this anymore.

Cath RN, PhD7

He didn’t only put children and adults in the hospital, these people now have to battle lifelong, chronic conditions. But hey, you know, “pioneer.”

automaton4u.bsky.social7

If you drink this shit you deserve what happens to you, if you make your kids drink it you are a child abuser who belongs in prison

klynner.bsky.social6

He's not a pioneer. He's satisfied with his selfish, harm inducing ways. It seems he's sadistic.

Soren Lorenson reeks of shitlibbery6

Literally "Some of you may die, but that's a price I'm willing to pay." LITERALLY

Ryano6

That's a license to kill.

Crutnacker6

Pioneer? Nah, people have been putting kids in the hospital for centuries.

Michele Lamb6

Pioneer is a greedy sociopath

Eryn Wyld6

NOT! What it means to be a PIONEER in enterprise is to bring INNOVATION to the table that ADVANCES consumer value. Abandoning progress, going back to the actual pioneering era of the 1800s, & sickening people is SOCIETAL REGRESSION fueled by stupidity and ego. The definition of MAGA & Trumpism.

mjfrombuffalo6

I see the misunderstanding here. You see, he doesn't mean "Pioneer" as in "doing something new and innovative," he means "Little House on the Prairie cosplay from before everyone understood pasteurization."

HudsonRiverCroc5

A “pioneer” that has done what other farmers did in the past

Jim Sharkey5

It must be awesome to have this much self-regard. To be able just blithely float through life, willing to say the most clueless nonsense with a straight face, is a superpower of a sort.

Pruit Igoe4

“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m an asshole.” Fixed his quote.

🇺🇦🇺🇸⚖️📣 knightly garb4

Sociopath with no inclination to conceal it.

Monitor Lizard4

I've put a couple of kids in the hospital. But here's the thing: I'm a Special Boy

Mr. Skeets4

This is the speech a supervillain gives before Batman punches him into a coma

Karma's Dad4

These self absorbed assholes need to go through some things.

Nancy Ann ❌👑 👍🏻🐸4

Is “pioneer” the new “patriot”? He seems to not know prior to the invention of pasteurization, everyone drank raw milk. They’re all so proud of being morons.

Daniel Bolnick4

It’s not pioneering to revert to a primitive (and unhealthy) way of life that our ancestors dealt with for thousands of years. It’s regression, not pioneering.

🦊 🩵🐦‍⬛ Fox & Crow, for Bartleby Endeavors 🎥4

Pioneer? Psychopaths have been harming children for eons. Or did he mean in the Oregon Trail sense?

Eryn Wyld4

Here is an article about actual pioneers in Agriculture — bsky.app/profile/moth...

Julietta Justice4

Was typhoid Mary a pioneer?

Gluten-free Seitan4

Blazing a trail for others to spread sickness, too

oliveoylcp.bsky.social4

Someone wrote “boil the milk to kill the pathogens,” and my brain substituted the word “propaganda,” and I liked that version of the phrase, too. It’s absolute insanity that people drink raw milk.This guy is a zealot, a conman, and a criminal. No wonder he feels right at home in the current regime.

bluestatedon.bsky.social4

Mark McAfee: “It’s great for asthma and literally saves lives.” Also Mark McAfee: “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital”

Kurt Weldon3

"I found a way to keep milk from putting kids in the hospital. But here's the thing: Je suis un pioneer." - L. Pasteur.

I Heart Noise3

"I killed a bunch of people," Musk said. "But here's the thing: I'm a pioneer."

FakeKraid3

No, pioneers tread *new* ground, not old ground that we rightly moved on from almost 150 years ago

Call me Trixie3

If I had a neighbor who told me he put kids in the hospital, at minimum I would call CPS. Then I'd tell the town to stay away from the person aware he is harming children who still continues regardless.

CharM3

If people want to kill themselves they can have at it, but killing children with their stupidity is beyond infuriating.

Matt3

Pasteur was a pioneer, not this dickhead

Ms.ShaunaLouise3

I like to only drink water with lead in it. I’m a pioneer. 🙄

Rex & Remi3

Who would insure this prick or his product? And you'd think you would need evidence of sufficient means to pay for the eventual liability for you knowingly selling a product that hurts and could potentially kill somebody.

Rahvin3

Vlad the Impaler: "I've impaled so many people I've lost count. But here's the thing, I'm a pioneer."

By the seat of his pants……3

How can you be a pioneer when there ever only was raw milk until We started pasteurising it to make it safe. The pioneer was the guy who invented pasteurising ….

MAinNC3

Ain't it cute that he thinks he's a pioneer doing something that was done so far back in time, before things like science and medicine understood what was happening to people. You're not a pioneer, Mark! You're freakin' caveman!!! 🤣😂🤣

ladyvanilla.bsky.social3

if by pioneer you mean 19th century ignorance, then man youre killing it

liker9.bsky.social3

We had 4 milk cows and I grew up drinking raw milk. However, I would never drink raw milk unless I saw how the milkers and buckets are cleaned, plus I would want to see the milk poured through a strainer. Too much can go wrong with large operations.

Jay Baller3

These old fucks think they’re innovators and Men of History

Tammi3

“I’m a pioneer.” Well, not really, although in all fairness lots of them also died of food born illness…🤷🏻‍♀️

Dr. Strangepork3

@expressnews.com reported on an E. Coli outbreak with cheese sold by the Texas grocery chain he bragged about in this interview. According to owner Mark McAfee, HEB sells $50,000 of his raw cheese to them knowing E. Coli and Salmonella are present in the milk used to make that cheese.

DefiantMind3

And Ed Gein was an interior designer.

Martijon2

Two sentences that belong on this asshole’s tombstone.

Zach2

Pioneer in what? It isn't like his milk is some breakthrough in health or some shit. The only way that quote is acceptable is drug trials involving major medical advancement. Not this shit.

I had too much to dream last night2

you'd think that "we should not knowingly hurt children" would be the lowest common denominator of humankind, alas, nope.

Paul Rodger2

Even the pioneers knew to boil raw milk. This guy should be shut down.

social media enjoyer2

This dude should get the chair for murder

Jo2

He’s a pioneer of sickening children? Yeah, he’s right up there with Josef Mengele 🙄

Jeff From Ohio2

“Hey, what about all the kids I DIDNT kill? You never asked me about them!”

Teddy (queer rage edition)2

Pioneers put their kids in hospitals too… or the ground. Then they learned about pasteurization and FUCKING USED IT.

neanderthal53.bsky.social2

"I’m a pioneer." Yeah, we all know the death rate of the pioneers in this country from milk borne and other pathogens.

Best Before Stardate 80160.4🖖🐸2

Pioneer eh? Has he tried raising the temperature high enough to kill pathogens and bacteria while not damaging the proteins in the milk? He should try that. If he can get it to work hill be a billionaire.🙄

I’m a lawyer, and he is begging to be sued by the families of the people who fell ill drinking his milk. His statements will be used against him to his detriment in court. Lawyers are always grateful for these kinds of admissions. Of course, smart people don’t drink raw milk.

Life Sucks Wear A Helmet2

I didn’t realize there was a silent p at the beginning of cunt

Z2

Insurance companies should not pay hospital bills for stupid people doing this stuff. If I intentionally start a fire, it's arson & I don't get my house paid for. Let's let natural selection work (as they wish) & no saving people from their willful stupidity

Language Learning Matters2

Why does he think it makes him a pioneer to climb a mountain that people throughout history have already climbed because they had no other options? I’m also wondering if he offered to pay for their hospitalizations, if he feels this strongly about it.

Gokupants2

So, is he saying he is just getting started putting kids in the hospital?

j0HNNY a1PHA2

Knowingly gives poop to kids: “I’m a pioneer”

JackMcgraw 🇨🇦 2

He should be in jail

Frank Lynch2

Like the pioneers who resort to leeches for remedies.

Bouba's Delivery Service3

I've seen cows. Screw that.

Fava Bean2

Imagine being proud to drink milk seasoned with live cow poo.

Mike Wilson2

Again I am wondering how our species didn’t go extinct aeons ago. I guess there’s just enough sane people to balance out the raw cows milk/anti vax/horse medicine crowd.

Elle3

@sarahtaber.bsky.social has a great explainer up on YouTube about this - no one drank raw milk!! Mom boiled it!

Thundal Archsys2

Because they're told it's natural and healthy and common sense and shit. Same people who think that removing a large portion of the workforce will make them richer, somehow? Complete ignorance of the world around them, and being told that they're all *actually* smart because they have no education

Chitinous.Carapace2

To own the Libs. Don’t you feel owned that people are putting their kids in hospital