I wonder how many of these folks have any personal experience with raw milk? I wonder how many of these humans realize that pasteurization destroys a plethora of heat-sensitive enzymes, vitamins and a host of other nutrients? I wonder how many of these individuals commenting here have contemplated and studied deeply the dietary choices of healthy traditional and primitive groups around the world consuming and subsisting on unheated, unadulterated raw milk? I wonder how many people commenting here realize the impact raw milk had on their ancestors’ overall genetic viability and personal health? I wonder if anyone commenting on this board has taken an earnest, well-focused, and determined approach to seeking out actual verifiable statistics regarding the risks associated with consuming such a natural substance? I wonder how well the human race would have fared had every mother in the inhabiting this planet taken their own breast milk and applied high heat pasteurization temperatures in order to avoid so-called pathogenic bacteria? I wonder how many of these folks were indoctrinated at a very young age with information regarding the so-called ‘inherent dangers’ linked to unpasteurized milk consumption? I wonder who benefits from mass-produced pasteurized milk? I wonder who benefits from raw milk production on small-scale eco-friendly traditional farming methods geared toward sustaining animals (such as cow) on a natural diet of abundant grass and vegetation grown on nutrient dense soils? I wonder if many of us realize that we are walking, breathing, laughing, crying, dancing bacterial vehicles, maintaining 10 times more bacteria within our human organism than human cells? Should I wonder if any of the preceding comments stemmed from individuals with realization that e. coli, salmonella, and various other living agents are naturally discovered to be inhabiting various regions of the average human gut flora? I wonder if any of the aforementioned inquiries will catalyze or instigate investigation by any of the readers or commentators of this article?

Did you even read the aticle that you posted about how much pus is allowed in milk before and after pasteurization during inspection? There is a certain amount allowed before because they use that as a tool to measure how healthy they are keeping the cows, and then of course after pasteurizaion there is NONE, NADA, ZILCH pus allowed in the milk, and a myriad of other things as well that they check for before it is even marketable!!! Gimme good neo-facist milk anyday plz kthxbai. Enjoy your ass milk.

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When food is changed from it’s original, natural version to a cooked version, it loses it’s enzymes and between 70 and 99% of the vitamins and minerals.

Technically no children should have cow dairy prior to the age of 2, babies cannot digest cow’s milk, and early introduction of dairy is a frequent cause of dairy allergies, especially when the parents have allergies.

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humans have been drinking milk straight from the cow for hundreds of years.

As for what raw milk has in it that pasturized milk doesn’t… enzymes that allow you (and baby cows btw) to digest the stuff. Many people who have problems drinking milk have no issues drinking pasturized milk.

That being said I don’t usually pay for raw milk. I do just fine on the other stuff even though I know it was dirtier to start with (wouldn’t it be nice if cleanliness was required from ALL dairies?) but the idea that someone else shouldn’t be allowed to purchase raw milk is asinine. Again, in this state there are warnings on raw milk so if someone wants to buy it (and oh yes they do) then what business of mine is it to stop them? Seriously people, don’t we all have something better to do then to stop people from drinking raw milk?