Once widely banned, raw milk consumption is on the rise and states are repealing their bans. No one’s happier about that than the far right. How did we get here?

NOTE: In the retelling of Pasteur’s early pasteurization, Aubrey misspoke! The culprit wasn’t lactic yeast, it was lactic acid bacteria. Sorry for the slip up!

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Milk!: A 10,000 Year Food Fracas
U.S. Consumer survey
The Effects of Pasteurization on Vitamins
Lingering Heat over Pasteurized Milk
How pasteurization improves safety
Swill-Milk and Infant Mortality
Alta Dena (Court case 1, Court case 2, Alta Dena's raw milk history)
A Raw Milk Magnate Has Spent Years Fighting Public Health Agencies
Should This Milk Be Legal?
The Amish farmer who ignited outrage over raw milk
Why Are People Promoting Raw Milk?
The Quest for Raw Milk
Some Raw Truths About Raw Milk
Right Wing Commentators Are Pushing Misinformation
How Raw Milk Went From Hippie to MAGA
Here's why raw milk drinkers need to be concerned about bird flu
Influencers promote raw milk

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