Some farmers may wash dem titties, or claim they do, but the dairy industry rarely does in real practice - beyond perhaps knocking/spraying off the larger pieces of dirt with a hose or soaked rag.

Senior milking cows develop keratosis, which means their teats would be near impossible to disinfect via cleaning without using some kind of steam treatment or extended antibiotic soak.. Which is obviously not possible physically or commercially, so it's not done.

Cows are hairy, sweaty, hygeine-unburdened creatures and the ones that live on dairy farms are on antibiotics and living in cramped conditions, perpetually nursing or pregnant. Which is why cows milk is a significant disease vector, and why pasteurization is so core to the milk industry surviving - and so bizarre to see people intentionally avoid it.

There is scientifically no value in raw milk over pasteurized, just significant added risks.

But I mean it's generally the same crowd that tan their balls in UV light and eat raw meat 'for their health' that do it, so.. Not that surprising.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.