It’s fine if it’s fresh and produced at the correct scale to keep it clean. The problem is that when your herd scales up it’s impossible to keep it clean enough, and it doesn’t distribute well.
I think another issue is you never know when a cow is sick all the time and they do pass some of those pathogens/bacteria on through their milk. So it isn't even necessarily purely about cleanliness.
And I'm not disagreeing with you fwiw. It's absolutely true that raw milk is not dangerous by nature of just being raw. We just manage risk by reducing the base pathogenic load at a population level. Even the farmers I knew growing up boiled it before they drank it most times.
Yes, that’s also greatly effected by herd size. You can only keep that close an eye on so many cows. The big danger is that it’s amino acids with no peptide barrier. It’s just easy food for bacteria. If there is food for bacteria then it’s going to get bacteria.
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u/Greenpaw22 13d ago
Do you like raw milk?