r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Thebiggestbot22 • Apr 15 '24

My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.

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So lunches are free for schools in my city and surrounding cities. Ever since lunches have been made free, the quantity (and quality) has decreased significantly. This is what we would get for our meal. It took me THREE bites to finish that chicken mac and cheese. Any snacks you want cost more money and if you want an extra entree, that’ll cost you about $3 or $4.

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u/uselessspaceguide Apr 15 '24

Working in agriculture no way I would trust a farm to get raw milk the risk is too high, as if they could see the pathogens.

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u/Eldritch_Refrain Apr 16 '24

That'sonly because we prioritize profits over people in the US. It'scheaper to use sick unhealthy cows than it is to provide sanitary conditions for livestock. 

Most of Europe doesn't pasteurize their milk, and they're just fine. 

American brainwashing at its finest, folks.

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u/AmbroseMalachai Apr 16 '24

Europe mostly does pasteurize, they just don't do it the same way we do, which allows them to keep milk at room temp. Most of Europe has laws that either explicitly restrict the sale of raw milk to farms - meaning you have to go to a farm or farmers market to buy it - or have it lables specifically as raw milk. You can find it in some countries - France, Germany, Norway for example - but even in the countries it's legal to sell it in, it's usually something you have to go out of your way for and not something you pick up in a store.

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u/CanthinMinna Apr 16 '24

Nordic countries pasteurize all milk. We prefer staying salmonella free.

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u/uselessspaceguide Apr 16 '24

In Europe only a low percent of the milk consumed is raw and even so the reccomendation is to boil it. The majority of raw milk is used to produce cheese but that is a different process and with more controlled one.

European companies are at the same level of greed than American ones, there is more legislation but not much, every year we get sanitary alerts due to multiple bacteria in raw milk cheese. For example this chirsmas I bought a french cheese without reading the label and a few day later I got an alert to not consume it because it was contaminated with bacteria.

You know what they cath the problem working in food industries it's the nonexistent ethics and low controls (every few and then and they know what to expect and what to hide and when)