LET THEM EAT E COLI:

Raw Milk to Evolution: Americans Disregard Science (Ross Anderson, Sep 06, 2011, Food Safety News)

Certain staunch American conservatives and liberals have found something they can agree on. Raw milk. They believe unpasteurized milk is perfectly safe and healthy to drink, and they dismiss any science and scientists who say it is not.

Passionate advocates from both ends of the political spectrum object to state and federal laws regulating the sale of unpasteurized milk. They believe pasteurization deprives cows' milk of important nutrients that bolster the human immune system and ward off illness. And they say government has no business telling citizens they can't sell it or buy it.

Whatever their politics, these raw milk devotees are at odds with the overwhelming weight of scientific and medical authorities, who declare unpasteurized milk is no healthier than processed, and the lack of pasteurization greatly increases the risks of being sickened by E. coli, Campylobacter or other harmful microbes.

What about the folks who think they're lactose intolerant?

Posted by oj at September 12, 2011 3:09 PM
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