I see that raw milk is back in the news cycle.
Do not drink raw-milk. Do not give it to your pets. Farms and barnyards are dirty places and there are many opportunities for bacteria to contaminate the milk.
Historically, most milk was processed in a way that either cooked it, or fermented it
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Feb 4, 2026 03:28Fermented milk products encourage good bacteria to out-compete harmful bacteria. This makes them safer than raw-milk, but not as safe as pasteurization.
The processes needed to make raw milk cheese/yoghurt/clabbered milk the safest ways require scrupulous attention to cleanliness
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and wooden containers regularly scalded with hot water and scrubbed with salt -- and this does not scale to an industrial level.
Our ancestors ate raw-fermented milk products because they had no other workable option to make milk safer.
We have pasteurization. It is much better.
