What makes raw milk so appealing anyway? There are a crazy amount of diseases you can pick up from it, is it worth the risk? Theres a reason we invented pasteurization.
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I think there's so much distrust of modern food processing methods in the US that the idea of something closer to the natural source may be perceived as healthier.
Man, if only we chose to fund the agency that oversees those processing plants to ensure they were safe! No, that might benefit the poor so we can't do that.
If only there was something we could do!
Oversight could impact profits.
Some drink it in gallons just to own the libs. Let them.
Problem is Raw milk drinks are breaking the social contract just like anti vaccine people. Drinking raw milk increases the chances that animal diseases have more opportunities to jump to humans. You want to drink raw milk and not get vaccinated? Fine, but you don't get to interact with society. These aren't simple personal choices. Their impact is global and we can't allow them to put everyone else in danger for something that has no logical or scientific backing.
I'm actually in training to be a med lab tech, I just want to show these people my slides on brucellosis, a nasty bug from raw milk and is one of the most common sources of lab worker infections. Its just selfish! We had a guest speaker come in from infection control who lived through SARS, MERS, covid ect and they were super pessimistic about the state of public health over the next few years. Its going to be rough.