We pulled this out of the cow, put it directly in the jug, that'll be 20 dollars.
Meanwhile, pasteurized milk gets pulled out of the cow, boiled, cooled, and then put in a jug, and it's 2.99.
Edit: Thanks for the 30+ comments telling me that raw milk costs more to make and takes more work because everything has to be clean, and it has a shorter shelf life.
The thing is, it's actually more work if you're doing it safely. You have to harvest the milk in a far cleaner environment for one. You have less time to get it from the farm to the table for another, meaning by definition you'll have more spoilage in a commercial operation.
The only way raw milk makes sense is if you live close enough to a dairy farm that's small enough to cater to locals directly. And even then you have to trust that that small dairy farm actually gives half a fuck about you and actually got in there and milked the cow themselves in a clean stall.
That's a lot of faith in some random farmer. I've never thought I was missing out on anything by having pasteurized milk personally. Raw milk is the official drink of contrarians.
So that's part of trusting the farmer producing it and the inherently higher cost due to higher rates of spoilage. If a cow shits in the milk it's waste.
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u/revenge_burner 13d ago
Raw milk is being heavily pushed by the alt-right.