Rigby5
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From the FDA’s website:
Raw milk can contain a variety of disease-causing pathogens, as demonstrated by numerous scientific studies. These studies, along with numerous foodborne outbreaks, clearly demonstrate the risk associated with drinking raw milk. Pasteurization effectively kills raw milk pathogens without any significant impact on milk nutritional quality.
What I have read is that getting small exposure to a few pathogens through milk is how we naturally, normally, and historically got immune to them.
If you fail to expose yourself to these pathogens when young and hearty, then you assure death when exposed later in life, to larger amounts.
Essentially unpasteurized milk is a vaccine of the real world.
If only pasteurized dairy is consumed, then you are always vulnerable to thousands of risky pathogens all around us.