Residents of Los Angeles county have been warned against feeding their cats Monarch Raw Pet Food after the company’s products tested positive for bird flu. The pet food brand is sold at several farmers markets in California, the locations of which can be found on the company’s website. Recently, a pet cat that ate Monarch […]
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Drinking raw, unpasteurized milk was once mainly touted by a small group of people on the left, often those skeptical of corporate farming. But now, as concerns increase about the possibility that avian flu might be transmittable to humans via consumption of raw milk, MAGA conservatives have taken up the cause. The Food and Drug […]
In recent earnings calls, shareholders in some publicly traded meat companies have asked whether the Trump administration’s deportation plans—among other issues—may pose a challenge to their industry. “We’ve been there before. It did not impact our business,” said Tim Klein, CEO of National Beef, which is owned by the Brazilian food company Marfrig, in response […]
So, the ultimate goal of the USDA is to eliminate cattle as a reservoir. When the Agency announced it was planning for this programit noted that there were two candidate vaccines in trials. Until those are validated, it plans to use the standard playbook for handling emerging infections: contact tracing and isolation. And it has […]
U.S. dairies must now send samples of raw milk to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) so the agency can test them for bird flu, per a new federal order. The move, announced Friday (Dec. 6)builds upon existing efforts by the USDA and other authorities to track the spread of bird flu in dairy herds […]
Pasteurization The milk-related risk of H5N1 is only from raw milk; pasteurized milk does not contain live virus and is safe to drink. Pasteurization, which heats milk to a specific temperature for a specified amount of time, kills a variety of bacteria and viruses, including bird flu. Influenza viruses, generally, are considered susceptible to heat […]
Topline California state health officials said the bird flu virus was detected in a batch of raw milk sold at retail stores across the state, prompting a voluntary recall, as authorities once again warned about the risks of consuming unpasteurized milk—a practice some social media influencers and right-wing figures, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr.have promoted. […]
Early on in his new memoir, Jaleel White informs his readers that he also wants you to see the book as a proposal for a TV show. It’s been about 35 years since White first put on a pair of high-waters overly reliant on suspenders, and entered into sitcom history as Steve Urkel, the antihero […]
Cortado. Caffe Latte. Caccionis. Affogato. Hot Wet. Flat White. Two of those six drinks are fake, but that shouldn’t stop you from ordering one and expecting the barista to nod politely and whip something on the fly to avoid coming off as behind the times. Cafés in touristy regions of Italy began adding milk to […]
