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Fri, May 22nd 2015 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Some folks like to drink coconut water because it tastes good -- not because it's a fashionable, semi-exotic-sounding liquid that has some specious health claims. Some fads, like drinking raw milk are actually not that healthy. But if you just like trying out new stuff to drink (and carry around in a bottle or cup), check out a few of these links.

Maybe it's just in Brooklyn that it's cool to drink bone broth from a coffee cup. As long as it's not as expensive as $6 toast, who can argue against a tasty cup of soup? [url]
Drinking reclaimed water is nothing new, but people are a little repulsed by the idea of drinking water that was recently treated from a sewer system. But maybe people won't be so turned off by beer brewed with 100% treated waste water? Or they might get pissed in multiple ways. [url]
How about a refreshing pint of mead? It's not just a medieval honey-based drink anymore. A traditional brew would have about 16% alcohol content, but more modern versions have less than 6% or so. Mead is also one of the fastest growing segments in the US alcohol industry. [url]
If you haven't heard of rooibos tea, well, maybe you haven't really missed out on anything. It's technically not a tea, but a tisane or infusion -- and maybe it's soo four years ago. [url]

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Filed Under: alcohol, beer, bone broth, drinks, food, grey water, herbal tea, infusion, mead, reclaimed water, rooibos, soup, tea, water

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Anonymous Coward, 23 May 2015 @ 10:07am

What's wrong with raw milk?
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mdpopescu (profile), 25 May 2015 @ 2:57am

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There's this weird belief in the US that raw milk is somehow bad for one's health. I have no idea why - and the notion that it's a "fad" (we've been doing it for the last, well, 2000 years at least) is pretty much on par with the idea that unbottled water is bad.
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Anonymous Coward, 25 May 2015 @ 3:16am

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Lets just say that a cows udders are pretty close to their bums. Can you say E Coli and Campylobacter?
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John Fenderson (profile), 26 May 2015 @ 1:15pm

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"What's wrong with raw milk?"

Straight from the dairy? Nothing. There may be problems when it comes to stocking it in stores, though, since it has a dramatically shorter safe shelf life.
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Zonker, 26 May 2015 @ 2:36pm

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Because many types of harmful bacteria flourish in raw milk, bacteria that are especially harmful to children, seen in recent cases in Oregon:

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/04/post-5/

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/02/a-mom-and- a-dairymans-plea-dont-feed-children-raw-milk/

http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2014/05/raw_ milk_outbreaks_on_the_rise.html

This is the reason that pasteurization was invented, to kill pathogenic (harmful) bacteria and prolong the shelf life of dairy products. From Wikipedia:
Diseases prevented by pasteurization can include tuberculosis, brucellosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and Q-fever; it also kills the harmful bacteria Salmonella, Listeria, Yersinia, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli O157:H7,[17][18] among others.
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Anonymous Coward, 6 Jun 2015 @ 6:44pm

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No closer than your wife's are.
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