Raw Milk Blog

Judge rules against Like Wildflowers Homestead in its dispute with the Texas Department of State Health Services. The case continues to a June 29 hearing date.

Mammary glands produce no lactase. Here’s where the myth comes from, what actually does appear in bottled raw milk (and why), and what the science says about the widespread reports of people who say raw milk solved their dairy intolerance.

Multiple large European studies have linked raw milk consumption in childhood to lower rates of asthma and allergies. This article reviews what the research found.

Voluntary recall issued for seven raw cheddar cheese products on April 2, 2026, at the FDA’s request. No pathogens have been found in any Raw Farm or government-collected samples to date.

Pennsylvania Dept of Agriculture has advanced an amendment to 7 Pa. Code Chapter 59a that would allow licensed raw milk producers to sell raw butter legally. Final publication in the PA Bulletin is expected in Q2 2026.

HB179 was signed into law on March 26, 2026, removing the ownership requirement that had restricted retail raw milk sales to farms or farm-owned stores in Utah.

Raw Farm announced all government and internal product tests have returned 100% negative, following regulators’ unsubstantiated recall request tied to an E. coli cluster.

Raw milk is legal in most U.S. states, but not the same way. Learn the difference between licensed sales, pet food labeling, and herdshare arrangements.

Raw Farm says no pathogen has been found in any of its products while the FDA and CDC allege a link between its raw cheddar cheese and an E. coli outbreak.

Updated per-consumer raw milk illness data using Lando et al. 2022 (FDA) and Koski et al. 2022 (CDC). The consumer base is larger than prior estimates, putting the per-consumer illness rate at approximately 1 in 15,000 per year.

Like Wildflowers Homestead is urging Texans to submit public comments to the Texas Sunset Commission as the farmer suggests a competing dairy may have filed the complaint that triggered the DSHS enforcement action.

The “840 times more illness” statistic measures outbreak-reported illness per billion servings across four pathogens and not the per-consumer risk most people are asking about.