I doubt there’s much risk in drinking raw milk from your own goats. Probably more when you’re talking about a commercial operation. More goats, and more opportunity for the milk to go bad. Still, I’m not advocating the government ban it. There’s too much government interference in people’s lives already.
Probably more when you’re talking about a commercial operation. More goats, and more opportunity for the milk to go bad.
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I would agree with that. However, I think that is the case with all commercial operations involving food.
A lot of commercial dairies could care less about the filth and disgusting environment that they operate within, and they get away with it because they pasteurize their milk.
If most people ever visited a commercial dairy, they would never want to drink milk again.
However, I will admit that there is some scientific evidence that farm families that drink their own raw milk do develop immunity to the germs their animals carry. This is not necessarily true for people who don’t live on a farm.
Although, there have been very few serious illnesses from raw milk over the last 10 years, almost all of them have been in adults and children who tried raw milk for the first time.
I do sterilize all my milking equipment and use sterilizing utter wash before milking., just to watch my kids go out and lay down and kiss on the goats.
If they ever got sick from E. coli, the milk would be the last thing I would consider as the source.