Growing up as a millennial, you got your gallon at the store and that was that. In grade school each year at least a paragraph if not a chapter was dedicated to the heroics of Louis Pasteur and his world renown life saving pasteurization discovery. But now, local dairy farms are offering raw milk, and I’ve a few friends who are swearing by it, as tastier, helping with digestion, skin issues, etc. but the CDC would lead me to believe if we buy raw milk we will all get E. coli and die . So just knowing that so many of you are leap years ahead of me on such subject. What’s the deal? Raw milk yes? Raw milk risky business?
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Mostly depends on your source. Bulk of the issue back when. An incomplete understanding of Germs/Bacteria and Some companies/dairies would cut corners and weren’t particularly sanitary. Which would lead to various sickness/illness in people who used their product. Pasteurization would help neutralize some bacteria at the expense of various vitamins/nutrients etc.
Pasteurization can also help increase shelf life for various products. So there was some economic incentive to adopt the process as products would last on the shelf longer. At the expense of some nutrients and other things of course. But larger profit. So the companies/dairies weren’t overly concerned.
Quite a lot of early decisions regarding food usually came down to making it last on the shelf longer. If you can find a reliable source you trust for unpasteurized milk. Go for it. Supposed to have better taste. Probably cost an arm and a leg unless you got your own cow though. Something to keep in mind.