Yeah, just a continuation of the gov't mantra that raw milk is the most dangerous thing after nuclear waste. I have personally come to have some reservations about the specific dairy they're referring to with the e. coli thing in CA (discussed in the crackdown on raw milk thread), but any risk from that source is far, far less than eating fast food hamburgers, or lunch meats, or any number of fresh produce items. Are they making blanket recommendations urging consumers not to eat tomatoes, spinach, cantaloupes, ground beef or sliced lunch meats? Apparently not. Raw milk probably won't ever get fair treatment, the "danger" is too entrenched in public health policy, they'd have to do some serious back-pedaling. It's also inherently (and should remain firmly so, IMO) a LOCAL FOOD, and as that does not fit within the industrial food system, the industrial food lackeys must vilify it at every opportunity. Heaven forbid they should say anything that might cause people to see value in fresh, local, non-processed food.
) try to give me a hard time about it. I just tell them it's no more risky than spinach or tomatoes, and that usually does the trick.
