They do go a little extra with this stuff, I get why but they do. Like honey is mostly safe, not perfectly safe but it’s tonicity tends to kill off anything that gets in contact - but it’s still harbored butlinum spores and toxin and it can cause infant paralysis because of it. Also you can’t pasteurize the honey, because c botulinum spores can survive pasteurization. By the time they hit a year old they’re better able to hand the spores (by killing them with their tummies!!)
And there’s still occasional listeria and e coli contamination of leafy greens but we don’t tell people “avoid all leafy greens.” There’s never been a single case ever of a pregnant parent having one bender where the baby developed FASD (you have to drink truly prodigious amounts routinely, like alcoholic amounts, and even then that’s not 100% guaranteed), but we still tell pregnant parents to avoid even one drink. Also nevermind the crap that’s going one with mechanically tenderized beef.
I dunno, I dunno how I feel about it all. I get why we say to do what we do but it does often feel like playing into the granola antivax hands when we tell people “no don’t eat raw fish (sushi) or cheese when you’re pregnant but sure eat as much grocery store lettuce don’t even look up why we tell you to avoid cheeses and raw sushi grade fish.”
They do go a little extra with this stuff, I get why but they do. Like honey is mostly safe, not perfectly safe but it’s tonicity tends to kill off anything that gets in contact - but it’s still harbored butlinum spores and toxin and it can cause infant paralysis because of it. Also you can’t pasteurize the honey, because c botulinum spores can survive pasteurization. By the time they hit a year old they’re better able to hand the spores (by killing them with their tummies!!)
And there’s still occasional listeria and e coli contamination of leafy greens but we don’t tell people “avoid all leafy greens.” There’s never been a single case ever of a pregnant parent having one bender where the baby developed FASD (you have to drink truly prodigious amounts routinely, like alcoholic amounts, and even then that’s not 100% guaranteed), but we still tell pregnant parents to avoid even one drink. Also nevermind the crap that’s going one with mechanically tenderized beef.
I dunno, I dunno how I feel about it all. I get why we say to do what we do but it does often feel like playing into the granola antivax hands when we tell people “no don’t eat raw fish (sushi) or cheese when you’re pregnant but sure eat as much grocery store lettuce don’t even look up why we tell you to avoid cheeses and raw sushi grade fish.”
the purge but it’s one night where pregnant women go on a bender