This is so much worse than the headline even hints at.

The farm screens each batch for four types of bacteria: salmonella, E. coli, campylobacter and listeria, all of which thrive in the intestines of cattle and can contaminate milk through microscopic flecks of infected feces. The microbes can cause a constellation of symptoms in humans, from vomiting and diarrhea to sepsis, kidney failure and even death.

“We catch these things and divert the milk immediately,” McAfee said of the pathogens.

I assumed that after diverting batches, the farm discarded them. Later that day, I learned otherwise. “We have a red-flag system here, where if there’s anything that gets really out of whack, they can immediately tag the milk, and it doesn’t go to anything but cheese,” McAfee told me. “Because, you know, cheese is resistant to pathogens.”

Research has shown that raw cheese is not, in fact, resistant to pathogens; while aging can mitigate some risk, harmful bacteria can still survive the usual 60-day maturation process.

Wow, I can’t believe that’s legal (I mean, I can, but…). Makes it clearer why I and other immunocompromised individuals are not supposed to eat raw cheese.

From it emerged a 64-year-old dairyman, burly and tan, who left the engine running as he lumbered toward me with open arms.

“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.”

Fucking huggers. So many of them do this, as though it isn’t super invasive. Like people rubbing the belly of a random pregnant woman.

There are concepts of Asia being a socialist utopia?

On a related note, Ethiopians make some delicious food. Everyone should at least try doro wat sometime.

Made some bigos the other day. Not cheap when you have to buy the meat. And the cream. And the porcini.

…dancing dishes?

Mussels, at least, are still fairly cheap. For now.

I seriously miss oxtail. You can barely find it at any price anymore.

The state organizations followed up with a pitch in October for a new surveillance system that would give the federal health department “real-time, 24-hour data feeds on opioid and chronic disease trends” within a year, according to a presentation reviewed by KFF Health News. Under the proposal, HHS would get data from 90% of the population’s medical records by 2028.’

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After 31 years at the CDC overseeing public health surveillance, emerging infectious diseases, and the influenza divisions, Jernigan thought the solution was simple. The secretary could work with researchers to obtain huge databases pulled from health systems nationwide and maintained by major electronic health records companies.

Those databases are deidentified, meaning they don’t include patient names or other information that can identify individuals. Jernigan said Kennedy didn’t seem interested.’

Wants all of our medical data, but only interested if PII is included–imagine that.

They started with the disabled.

The editorial they were handing out, published in the ADA’s own journal: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/49/6/901/164764/Misguided-Brushes-of-a-Pen-Continue-to-Dismantle

They weren’t fired for being Catholic–they were fired for writing a memo which warned about potential violence from extremist Catholics.

Bots are not humans, but their creators should still be held accountable.

I hated driving through the Chicago area because that’s how they do this and I had out-of-state plates, making me more likely to catch the attention of traffic cops.

Really busy roads often do need a middle lane for turning without blocking traffic and being able to enter traffic when turning left. Roads with this problem are typically slow-moving in urban areas.

A scientific pantheist would be a shoe-in for this exception.

lol, what a loser

Some tried to do this last year, too.

We know a lot about crows, too.