Pasteurized milk was invented to prevent disease, and it did the trick quite well.
This invention was necessary because the dairies were producing raw milk that frequently caused serious illness.
Colostrum was in the raw milk back then, too, and yet there was a serious disease problem that led the world to adopt pasteurization.
Facts are always helpful.
As we can read elsewhere on the internet:
Proponents of unpasteurized milk make the unfounded and incorrect argument that if milk is obtained from humanely raised cows that are grass fed and handled hygienically, then there is little problem with disease. However, raw milk can become contaminated in a number of ways: by coming into contact with cow feces or bacteria living on the skin of cows, from an infection of the cow’s udder, or from dirty equipment, among others. Raw milk is responsible for nearly three times more hospitalizations than any other foodborne disease outbreak, making it one of the world’s most dangerous food products.
ROFL That’s why none of us are really here. We all grew up on raw milk as our parents and their parents and their…… well you get the picture. That’s why none of us are really here.
Wasn't "handled hygienically" in those cases then, was it? It's a wonder you didn't mention a worker sneezing into the bucket, too.
And when you talk about "Raw milk is responsible for nearly three times more hospitalizations than any other foodborne disease outbreak, making it one of the world’s most dangerous food products," you're conflating unsupervised, unregulated (in any meaningful way) Developing Countries (e.g. China) commercial enterprises; and Third World farmer families who have never heard of soap & water, let alone refrigeration, bacteria or disinfectants; with milk "handled hygienically". This a lie via true, but mostly irrelevant, statistics. Dishonest, to say the least
In any case, deceptively selling raw to the public at large, is not the same as selling to willing customers who are seeking the product, and should not be the government's business.
I have read that statement about raw milk, also, but cannot find it now that I am looking for it.
Please include the html reference for items you post from the internet.
Pasteurization is based on a false theory, that Pasteur himself renounced himself as he lay dying.
The question of what constitutes a pathogen is dependent on the condition of the immune system of the infected person.
There is absolutely no disease problem with raw milk; the problem lays with the already poor health of the individual.
Get real:
http://thehealthadvantage.com/index.html
Pasteurized anything is unfit for consumption, a waste of money, and a serious threat to health.
“...there was a serious disease problem that led the world to adopt pasteurization.”
The world DID NOT adopt pasteurization...the United States adopted it. A huge majority of the people in the world drink raw milk.
There is more disease spread through pasteurized milk today than through raw milk. In fact the few cases attributed to raw milk are from some other cause.
Raw milk is healthy, pasteurized milk is not. Raw milk is REAL milk. Pasteurized/homogenized is no longer milk.