Bird Flu: Is Your Milk Safe? | Dr. Neal Barnard Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The bird flu outbreak is infecting thousands of cows across the country. Is your milk safe to drink?
The virus has already been discovered in many milk samples on store shelves. It is also now infecting cattle ranchers.
Nutrition expert and bestselling author Dr. Neal Barnard shares the dangers of the H5N1 strain of avian flu that is spreading throughout cattle ranches and what you can do to remain safe.
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- Origins of bird flu
- Virus mutation
- Spreading from animal to human
- Is your milk safe?
- Is bird flu in cheese?
- The dangers of raw milk
- What are cattle ranchers hiding?
- Building your immune system
- Similarities with early spread of COVID-19
- And more!
This episode is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. The problem we have here domestically is the same problem we see in Europe |
| 0:07.2 | which is that good regulations don't mean good practice. The regulations are in place |
| 0:11.5 | the regulations currently say a sick cow producing milk that milk cannot be sold |
| 0:16.8 | That regulation is being absolutely ignored and you can go to your local grocery store and buy milk with remnants of the virus in it. |
| 0:26.2 | And Americans are doing that right now. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs, |
| 0:42.0 | coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:44.8 | High to the exam roomies listening in Lakeland, Florida, Rochester, Minnesota, |
| 0:49.6 | and West Yorkshire, England. |
| 0:52.2 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:57.0 | This is episode 43 of season 7, 542 overall. |
| 1:04.5 | Fresh off the heels of the worst pandemic in a century, another virus is sweeping across the |
| 1:10.7 | U.S. This time the bird flu. It has widely infected the dairy supply in the |
| 1:17.3 | country with the virus being found in milk being sold on store shelves and |
| 1:22.3 | dairy workers who came into contact with the |
| 1:25.3 | infected cows are now getting sick themselves and many families are wondering |
| 1:30.5 | are we safe? Is my milk safe? Is this the beginning of another pandemic? |
| 1:37.7 | Well to talk about what we know so far we are welcoming Dr. Neil Barnard back to the exam room live and we will be |
| 1:44.9 | getting into the origins of the virus how these viruses mutate and jump from |
| 1:50.4 | animal to human and the type of milk that may most be at risk by this outbreak |
| 1:56.7 | and most importantly what you can do to stay safe and keep your immune system functioning at a high level. |
| 2:05.4 | But before we get to that, let's head to Canada and talk about the Planted Expo in Vancouver |
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