You’d think that a label that reads “Not for Human Consumption” would be a clear indicator that you definitely should feed said product to a toddler. However, an excessively health-conscious mother in Florida seemed to think she knew better than the warning label and gave her son Keely Farms Dairy’s ‘Raw Milk.’ Claiming that she’d given the raw milk to her toddler and family members before without issue, this time around, she paid the ultimate price.
First, the Florida woman’s toddler son became very ill to the point that he had to have surgery due to “both E. coli and campylobacter” poisoning from the raw milk. While treating her baby, the mom “contracted the bacteria from cleaning up the diarrhea and vomiting,” which caused her to become so ill that she says it’s “the sickest I’ve ever been in my life,” according to News 6. This severe illness was doubly bad for her, as she was pregnant with a son. Sadly, the unborn fetus was unable to withstand the food poisoning and died inside her.
Now, the mother is suing Keely Farms Dairy because of her unborn son’s death and the terrible food poisoning she and her toddler suffered. Again, going back to the company’s product label on the raw milk: It is “Not for Human Consumption.” Understandably, the Florida mom believed raw milk had benefits for her child, but she plainly ignored the warning that it’s not something her toddler should be drinking. And now she wants to take legal action against the dairy business? Needless to say, online users believe her behavior to be rather irrational.
“She was an idiot because the farm was clearly intending this product to be consumed by people even though they had a warning that said for animals only,” remarked a Redditor. “[It’s] pretty dumb to give a kid something less sanitary than the adults were drinking. Kids don’t have well-developed immune systems. It’s why they get sick all the time.”
Another person chimed in, saying that “this woman is too dumb to be a mother.” Plenty more added that this woman and others like her are 100% in the wrong for “treating their children like their personal petri dishes based on stuff they read online, while they themselves have most likely reaped the benefits of pasteurised milk, vaccines, and herd immunity as children.” As one person puts it: “She effectively killed her own fetus.”
Her likely intentions of keeping her children healthy are admirable, but going against a warning label directing you against human consumption is an extreme level of negligence that doesn’t warrant settlement money.
