The health risks associated with drinking raw milk is likely overstated by the CDC in the U.S.
http://chriskresser.com/raw-milk-reality...-dangerous
Also, and I think more alarming, is the fact that the U.S. government is wasting time and money setting up sting operations to harass small farmers. In the Allgyer case, an Amish farmer was forced to shut down his farm for selling across a state line (Pennsylvania to Maryland).
http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/aa/aa-26april2010.htm
Quote:Perhaps this is a good time to review the difference between absolute and relative risk. When you hear that you have a roughly 9 times greater (relative) risk of getting sick from drinking raw milk than pasteurized milk, that might sound scary. And indeed it would be, if we were talking about the absolute risk moving from 5% to 45%.
But when the absolute risk is extremely small, as it is here, a relative 9-fold increase is rather insignificant. If you have a 0.00011 percent chance of getting sick from drinking pasteurized milk, and a 9.4 times greater risk of getting sick from drinking unpasteurized milk, we’re still talking about a miniscule risk of 0.00106% (one one-thousandth of a percent).
http://chriskresser.com/raw-milk-reality...-dangerous
Also, and I think more alarming, is the fact that the U.S. government is wasting time and money setting up sting operations to harass small farmers. In the Allgyer case, an Amish farmer was forced to shut down his farm for selling across a state line (Pennsylvania to Maryland).
Quote: In FDA's view all raw milk is a communicable disease and is "adulterated"; so, a product that is legal to sell under the laws of two neighboring states is a "communicable disease" and illegal when it crosses from one neighboring state into another. The federal ban on raw milk is a prohibition on a product that is legal to sell or distribute in at least twenty-nine (29) states and legal to consume in all fifty (50).
http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/aa/aa-26april2010.htm
