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I'm going to have to go with the physicians on this one. Raw milk's safety depends upon the care and sanitary practices of the milker and the dairy. There are >80 severe pathogens carried through the handling of milk, many of them are lethal. Most farmers are not careful when they are milking dozens of cows for raw milk. One or two cows can be managed but when they commingle dozens of milkings the chances of spreading food borne illnesses increases exponentially. I've watched too many farmers haphazardly sterilize their equipment and pass their products on carelessly. The 1966 Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance was put in place and many diseases became infrequent. TB, Brucella, Johne’s Disease, Coxiella, Salmonella, E.coli OH157, and numerous other diseases will become more commonplace if the surveillance of the raw milk is stopped.

This is but one subset of physicians, remember.

And even pasteurized milk presents those possible dangers; sounds like the milk herein described was heading straight for pasteurization.

Sorry. I’ll never go with the government dictating my diet at the point of a gun.

Interesting that Sumatran coffee recovered from cat feces is A-OK, fugu with neurotoxins for sauce is sublime, you can’t get a can of chili without what the government allows in rat droppings, but a drink of milk from the source is treated like a terrorist act.

When is the government going to start sending stormtroopers on breastfeeding patrol? “Alright, baby, step away from the booby. Ma’am, did you sterilize those nipples?”