FDA Milk Prohibition Is Dirty Dairy’s Scheme

By Dr. Mercola Despite warnings from U.S. health organizations like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that consuming raw (i.e., unpasteurized) milk is dangerous, the wholesome, natural food has a loyal and growing following. You might remember that at one time all milk was “raw,” as pasteurization did not yet exist. This 19th century invention is touted as crucial in making milk safe, but what it’s actually done is allow the proliferation of the “dirty dairy” industry, aka milk that comes from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOS). On CAFOs, milk can be produced in filthy conditions, then heated until all the pathogens are gone. Never mind that, along with killing “germs,” pasteurization kills off beneficial organisms in the milk and prevents natural souring (while naturally soured milk can still be consumed, pasteurized milk past its prime will quickly go bad).1 Rather than forcing dirty and dangerous CAFOs to clean up their acts, the FDA has waged a
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