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Mike Murphy
@mjamurphy.bsky.social
Applied economist at IFPRI, interested in how food systems and health interact in a warming world.
Mostly development, climate and international issues. Scottish football if you're really lucky.
1.7k followers1.6k following793 posts
This is a super piece on the history of pasteurization (revenge beer?!) and the contemporary nonsense-merchants promoting raw milk. It's depressing working on food safety in low income countries while these grifters endanger their fellow Americans. Nice to have the excellent Talia pushing back.
here is my jeremiad against the raw milk movement, based on the history of pasteurization: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Raw Milk and the Collapse of Consensus Reality
Louis Pasteur didn’t set out to make milk safer. A scientific jack-of-all trades, born in 1822 in eastern France, Pasteur pioneered fields from...
People.... are drinking raw milk? Deliberately??? 😳
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Mike Murphy
@mjamurphy.bsky.social
Applied economist at IFPRI, interested in how food systems and health interact in a warming world.
Mostly development, climate and international issues. Scottish football if you're really lucky.
1.7k followers1.6k following793 posts