Tales From Seattle
The Democratic Party just called with a recorded message asking me to make sure that everyone in my household was registered to vote, because by voting we can get change, especially on the war in Iraq, presumably by voting for the same Democrats that have represented us in DC and Olympia for time immemorial.
And two local kids are sick with e. coli because they were given unpasteurized milk from a health food store.
September 29th, 2006 at 3:29 am
They’re lucky it’s only e.coli you can get real dead from stuff growing in unprocessed milk.
September 29th, 2006 at 5:16 am
Exactly. Unpasteurized milk on the farm is OK (extra creamy!), but unpasteurized milk from a store… Nah. Could have been a (proxy) Darwin award or two right there.
September 29th, 2006 at 10:07 am
God the more I think about it, the more my head wants to explode. As a self-defense measure. “Oh, I only buy things for my children that are natural.” God Seattle is just filled with morons.
Meanwhile, Europeans (who the woman probably looks up to as a model for her own lifestyle, rather than Walmart Americanism) have been drinking that extra-pasteurized stuff you can leave under your sink for a couple months till you get around to opening it for years. But can we get that stuff? No. There’s science at work there. It’ll probably make our children sick. Bah.
September 29th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
What surprises me is that unpasteurized milk was being sold in Seattle. Absolutely verboten here in Maryland, where you can only have it legally if you own the cow. I’d have thought Washington would beat Maryland for invasive rules…at least slightly.
October 1st, 2006 at 9:32 am
UHT milk is ghastly. There’s no reason why we should’t have unpasteurised milk now that everyone can keep it chilled, and in any case you can get e-coli pretty well anywhere in Scotland nowadays.
October 1st, 2006 at 10:47 am
There’s no reason why we should’t have unpasteurised milk now that everyone can keep it chilled
Are ya serious?
October 2nd, 2006 at 1:34 am
Dunno. Don’t really know what I’m talking about, now I think about it. Why not?
October 2nd, 2006 at 9:10 am
You can get it from anywhere. Spinach, badly defrosted turkeys, NHS hospital bedgowns…
The first time I had UHT milk was in France, when I was fourteen, on my first day, and it had somehow managed to acquire the taste of onions. I thought that was how it naturally tasted so I didn’t drink milk for a month, me, who drinks tons of milk. Then my last couple of days I went and stayed at a farm (owned by the parents of some friends of ours) and they asked if I wanted any milk and I asked warily if it was the whatsit and they said no, looking at me like I was an idiot, that it came from the cow out back, and it was the best thing in the world.
But as a rule, I think parents shouldn’t expose their children to bacterial infections made obsolete by science more than a century ago.