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The Dangers of Raw Milk
They’re Going to Get Us All Killed
RFKjr suspended the FDA’s milk quality-control testing program for fluid milk and other dairy products
In the early 1960s, it was still common for milk to be delivered straight from the local dairy farm to your front door every morning. You’d leave your empty bottles on the stoop the night before. Next morning, you’d hear the clink of glass bottles and dogs barking. New bottles of milk would be waiting on the front stoop, along with cheese, yoghurt, and eggs straight from the farm if you left a note for the milkman.
The product delivered back then is what health pop culture today calls “raw milk.” It’s essentially unpasteurized milk and dairy products made from unpasteurized milk. Those eggs weren’t always safe either.
When I was an infant, two babies on our street in a little Tennessee country neighborhood were sickened by bad milk. I was one of those babies. The old country doctor told both mothers to force feed their infants baking soda water to make them throw up — and to keep doing it until they threw up clear vomit.
