No its not the governments job to tell you what you can eat, however congress did indeed pass food safety laws, and they regulate what and how things can be SOLD.
You want raw milk, go buy yourself a cow, and milk it yourself.. hell suckle it from the teet directly, no one will or can stop you.
However, you wish to sell it to others, that’s where you run into the food safety laws.. You really need raw milk that badly, go buy a cow, and drink up.
Frankly I see no reason exceptions can’t be made for a farmer to sell it directly to the nutjobs who show up wanting to risk major illness and death, but I this stuff has no business on supermarket shelves.
These “healthier without pasteurization” are collectively idiots IMHO, inidustrial processing make pasteurization a neccessity for any sort of reasonable safe ongoing food supply.. Care to recall not all that long ago when some juice manufactures weren’t bothering to pasteurize their juices because it wasn’t required, and claimed it was healthier? Not suprisingly folks got sick and died. Its not a question of IF that is the end result of, only when and how many will get it.
I can’t fathom how anyone who has ever seen the equipment in even a modest sized dairy farm, could remotely believe that what comes out the other end isn’t going to be contaminated with harmful bacteria.
Government certification is a two-edged sword. Sometimes (often?) one’s legitimate concerns are falsely allayed because of the implied assurance of a government stamp of approval.
How many horrible drivers are there in possession of valid, government certified, drivers licenses?