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Led by RFK Jr., Conservatives Embrace Raw Milk. Regulators Say It’s Dangerous.
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this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2025
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Bad practices exist. But good practices do too.
I've visited dairy farms and the animals were well taken care of, fed, and with clean and proper housing conditions.
The regulations are also very hard for keeping dairy cows, too the point many producers have shut down (hopefully, the bad ones). Instalations have to follow strict cleaning and sanitation requirements, pest control protocols, etc. And animals have to be regularly checked by veterinarians, along with surprise visits/inspections from the local municipal veterinarian and national food and animal safety agencies.
And the milk is checked for safety.
Is the current technology in need of an advance? Perhaps. But come on...
The way it works in Canada is they take a sample from each farm, but only test the van that collects the milk from an area's farms.
If the van fails test then they test individual samples and then they fine you the cost of the van, which is steep.
Works pretty well and the vast majority of farms I've visited were clean af.
Source: grew up on a farm.
Then again I barely drink any milk anyway, anything store bought just tastes like water and the family farm burned down a few years ago.
Well, at least compared to 4+% Ayrshire milk.