Raw milk can cause Guillain-Barré syndrome and paralysis, warns food safety advocate
By
Bill Marler
Toasted to a respectable shade. No regrets, no crumbs left.
Summary
The article is an opinion piece warning about the dangers of raw milk consumption, specifically linking it to Guillain-Barré syndrome caused by Campylobacter bacteria. The author draws on personal experiences with victims whose lives were devastated by raw milk-related illnesses, arguing that the product can cause paralysis and permanent disability. The piece pushes back against the raw milk movement that promotes it as a health food, emphasizing the severe neurological complications that can result from infection.
Key quotes
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I have spent time sitting across kitchen tables from people whose lives were upended by a single meal.
The ones about raw milk and Guillain-Barré syndrome are near the top of that list, because they involve a complication most people have never heard of, caused by a bacterium most people can't pronounce, delivered by a product that an entire movement insists is a health food.
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