But I read on Free Republic that raw milk is a great thing!
There is a well proven method of bison population control. It involves bows and arrows and skinning knives.
Brucellosis is a form of TB that can pass the “interspecies barrier” ! Hence the practice of innoculating dairy animals and tagging them that’s prevailed for at least 50 years ! Milk - raw or otherwise - from these animals/herds is safe for human consumption ! Were it not so we’d have had an enormous TB outbreak decades back as all “dairy families” - and often their neighbors - drank “raw” milk !
The issue with Bison is one of long standing, as domestic cattle shared the same range with “wild” bison. Given the dispersed nature of both species in the West, its long been possible for interspecies breeding and transfer of mutually supportable diseases; aka brucellosis, before prophylactic measures could be implemented on domestic herds.
Personally, I don’t see any reason for the “wild” distinction, and many against it. IMO, the american bison throve upon developing genetic diversity within isolated populations that - in the fullness of time - were introduced/tested in the general population on a hapstance basis. The so-called “wild” population - sans TB protection - is small hence may be a genetic dead end FAWK ! Remember this was a species that evolved to create large populations and multiple genetic evolutions within that population, if Mendel’s Laws prevail. >PS