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but if raw milk was contaminated with microbe and not pasteurized then left to sit it could get very dangerous so everything that the FDA passed down is in consideration of the worst outcomes and to protect people from being ill,
what would the FDA get out of telling people to pasteurize milk? you read an article which is likely to be biased, if they were writing for raw milk then it's going to be very one-sided, would you mind posting the page for me to look at? as none of the claims made here are actually supported by any scientific evidence or journals
Money.
While I am gone, read the following for starters....
www.realmilk.com all links
http://www.cheeseslave.com/2008/01/09/drinking-pasteurized-milk-is-dangerous/ note that statistics coem from the CDC, and can easily be searched out for yourself.
sorry, but first website can't be trusted straight away here's a little opening sentence:
Please note that this website recommends Real Milk--that is, milk that is full-fat, unprocessed, and from pasture-fed cows. We do NOT recommend consumption of raw milk from conventional confinement dairies or dairies which produce milk intended for pasteurization.
This website is advertising its OWN product - of course it'll be one sided as who would want to tell people about the bad points when you're trying to sell a product?!? I could tell the site wasn't that credible from the name of the website already, ''real milk'' the site is selling to people like you who believe that raw milk is ''better'' and that is what ''real milk'' is.
The second website is equally as not scientific as the title is ''drinking pasteurized milk is dangerous'' it shows the cases outbreaks through out the years which are minimal tbh as 1 case in the whole of the US? where is the data for outbreaks from drinking raw milk? may be compare which one has more outbreaks etc? and the reason why raw milk is illegal is because standards have to be maintained, could you imagine the WHOLE of the USA drinking raw milk? milk being produced in such vast quantities in a not guaranteed environment would be devastating and imagine the numbers of outbreaks compared to that occasional outbreak once a year possibly through a contaminated plant or because the consumer actually stored the milk incorrectly at home and not related to pasteurization.