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Jill from Little Red Hen drove the New Hampshire senate to legalize raw milk ice cream in 2022. Now her farm has raw milk ice cream on the menu.

Rockefeller never signed a milk bill, but his institute, university and family shaped the research and people behind America’s first pasteurization laws.

Lord Victor Rothschild tries and fails to lobby for milk pasteurization mandates in the United Kingdom.

Louis Pasteur developed the principles behind milk pasteurization, not the methods of industrial gatekeeping or germophobia.

Listeria from one Boar’s Head plant killed 10 people in 2024. The plant closed and deli meat stayed on sale. Raw milk, with far fewer deaths, faces bans.

Kenya banned raw milk sales in 2013, health and safety was mentioned but protecting corporate milk processors was the goal.

Miller’s Organic Farm, a private food club, can ship to its members across state lines, but not within the State of Pennsylvania.

Plant-based imitation milks can serve as a vector for the same microbes that sometimes appear in raw milk, but both instances are rare.

Raw milk is only available in Canada through underground private membership associations, herdshares. CADA wants to legalize raw milk.

Raw milk deaths are exceedingly rare, but it’s not impossible. Let’s take a look at some cases where raw milk might have contributed to someone’s death.

Numbers are cool, they allow us to measure things. Is the founder of Microsoft buying up all farmland in the USA?

Are large dairy interest groups promoting the rise of direct-to-consumer raw milk sales? Let’s dispel some obvious but common social media misinformation.