If only there was a way to ensure the milk was safe.
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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Wait, they sell raw milk in a store and people buy it?
I could see buying it from a person with a teat in their hand, but I'm not sure I could be persuaded to try prepackaged raw milk.
I could see buying it from a person with a teat in their hand
I have worked in a dairy farm, and I would definitely not buy it from someone with a teat in their hand. I've seen how those cows live. Boil it, pasteurize it, irradiate it, whatever but just DO NOT drink raw milk. It's not worth it.
Haha, point taken. I hadn't even gotten to that part of the horrible image. I was still stuck on how long that milk would out of temperature.
I almost completely forgot cow milk is basically dipped in cow exhaust.
I would buy anything from someone confronting me with a severed teat. There's no telling what that maniac would do if I don't buy.
But, but, but, that would be modern, and scientific! Which is probably unamerican!
Half of the US doesn't need the /s, and the other half of the US doesn't think it needs /s…
RFK jr needs to be force fed the entire batch.
As someone who is lactose intolerant but still loves cheese:
The thought of raw milk makes my stomach churn.
I guess you'll have a tummy full of raw butter soon…
You can make safe cheese from raw milk; it just has to be aged at least 60 days. This is the FDA requirement, I believe. EU, I think, has no requirement.
There are styles of cheese where you want it to be made from raw milk, because it does make a difference.
I just looked at Raw Farm's website, and all their cheese is aged at least 60 days, which means that any contamination of the cheese is likely not due to the starting milk, but it must be from cross contamination later in the process.
Raw farms could mention the fact that their cheese is all aged long enough to be "safe" but they won't because that would mean acknowledging that raw milk is dangerous, and that they likely have gross factories with bad sanitation procedures.
I don't understand the idea that raw milk is somehow better for us. I mean, maybe if you get it straight out of the cow's utter, but that's it.
When I get milk, I get the ultra-pasteurized stuff, so it will last several weeks in the fridge. My son and I used to go through more than a gallon a week, it was never around long enough for it to go bad, so I just got the normally pasteurized whole milk. My son is grown and moved out, and I've been cutting back on saturated fat, so in spite of loving milk, I don't have it very much anymore.
My extremely propagandized grandparents, who literally spoke the words, "thank God, our president, and RFK," in a conversation with me called the people who drink raw milk idiots because they both grew up on farms and know that shit's nasty.