Preventing disease outbreak is a pretty good use of their time, imo. Pasteurization is a thing for a reason.
Pasteurization was a process developed because dairies had moved into the cities where large populations resided. The cows got no fresh grass, and for various other reasons that I'm sure most can imagine, developed diseases and milk became contaminated. Once they moved the dairies out of the cities, the issues were...no longer an issue.
There have been 239,884 documented outbreaks due to pasteurized milk in the past few decades and 620 deaths. The nation’s largest recorded outbreak of Salmonella, which occurred from June of 1984 through April of 1985, killed 18 people and sickened over 200,000.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Center for Disease Control recently issued a public warning about the dangers of raw milk. Siding with corporate dairy and attempting to re-inoculate the public with fear (especially since consumer-interest in raw milk has risen 40% in recent decades), the agencies posted a “reminder” that between 1998 and 2005, raw milk was implicated in 45 food-borne illness outbreaks, 1007 individual cases, 104 hospitalizations and 2 deaths.
When raw milk champions Sally Fallon and Thomas Bartlett went looking for the data that supports these claims, they couldn’t find it. The reference that the FDA and CDC cited, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, provided no such information. No supporting data could be found in any other FDA or CDC document and demands for clarification have not been addressed.
I'll take raw milk from a dairy I know and trust any day over milk that pasteurization has destroyed and me and my family are healthier for it.
Here where I live, MS13 has taken over several towns and are killing children if they wont join the gang...I'd prefer my law enforcement deal with REAL life threatening issues, not imagined ones. No one on Long Island has ever suffered from illness due to poor milk being sold by the Amish. There are several parents however, that are mourning the loss of their children because of gang violence.
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