Raw Milk
Raw milk is currently illegal to purchase in 17 states, whereas it is legal to purchase in retail stores in 11 states(USA).I don`t really know all the facts about raw milk and the laws in European countries ,or my country but I was wondering for quite some time, why isn`t there raw milk available in stores
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Once I bought a candle with a sticker of the EU which read "Do not light it below a curtain".
I think it´s just about the pasteurization process. Unpasteurized milk could (it´s highly unlikely, but possible) contain harmful microorganisms.
Given how much Americans love to sue each other, it´s probably best not to sell it over there.
A good article from the CDC.
It started with beer and ended with milk.
A kind of rare, but it is possible to buy cheese made of raw milk in the EU.
i do not understand - why some ( or most? ) people in america want to drink raw ( unpasteurized ) milk?!
That's alright we won't tell the cows, we wouldn't want to hurt their feelings
Raw milk, it does a body good
Yeah I know, back then farmers use to feed cows with grass which wasn`t polluted as it is today ...
I think raw milk is OK and much healthier. People drank it all the time before they started pasteurizing it and most were fine. Now your chance of getting sick is even less as there are rigorous testing procedures in place to ensure there is no bad bacteria but there is always a small risk.
Well rather than feeding them something they can digest like alfalfa or grass they shoot them full of antibiotics and hormones to keep the milk flowing.
If you had your own healthy grass fed cow raw milk probably wouldn't be a problem.
so long as the scale of the operation is small there is less chance of getting sick . The same goes for home killed meat . Killing area will not be used much and the number of people getting sick will be small .
But I don't think that to drink raw milk be a good idea. When my family have bought raw milk, in a village, we boiled that milk first.