If not for deaths or serious illnesses requiring liver transplants from E-coli, I might agree.
Pasteurised milk is actually germier than raw milk, only pasteurised milk has dead germs in it.
I have also found that many people who are otherwise lactose intolerant can drink raw milk and eat cheese from raw milk without the typical gastro-intestional symptoms that lactose intolerance sets off. Pasteurisation kills a lot more than germs, it also damages some of the enzymes that would make the milk easier for people to digest.
“If not for deaths or serious illnesses requiring liver transplants from E-coli, I might agree.”
Serious incidences of Salmonella & E-coli contamination most often occur in pasturized milk. It is not unusual, when raw milk is blamed for illness caused by such contaminants, that the carrier was not the milk, but some other food item. There is published data comparing raw vs pasturized - more disease is the result of contamination in pasturized milk.
I would be interested in the sources for the comment you made that implies raw milk to be the source of the E-coli contamination.
And btw, acetaminophen (Tylenol) based pain relievers are responsible for more destroyed livers than E-coli contaminated food stuffs.