Flutterby™! : Mark McAfee knowingly poisoning kids

Pro Publica does a profile of Mark McAfee of Raw Farm, a raw milk producer that's been linked to various salmonella and e. coli poisonings, and a bird flu related recall.

“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital, and they have been sick, but they recovered,” McAfee acknowledged before my visit. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer. And I’m going against the grain here. I’m climbing a mountain they say you can’t climb.”

Via Tara Calishain. Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social points out that the reason he sells everywhere but Minnesota is accountability, because the Minnesota Department of Health uniquely oversees a team of interviewers called Team Diarrhea who track down food poisoning cases fast enough to actually pin down fresh dairy products.

The thing is... I grew up on raw milk. I find pasteurized milk to be kinda yicky (though that could also be homogenization, and breed of cattle and what not). But the more I learn about aspects of the culture I grew up in, the more I realize how horrific some of it was.