Raw Goat Milk Near Colorado Springs, CO

A UC Davis review of 37 studies found fermented dairy improved gut symptoms and inflammation, with no harmful effects reported.

How a physician-led commission built America’s first raw milk quality standard, with bacterial limits and inspection contracts that scaled across 58 cities, and what it shares with raw milk standards today.

A 2026 Colorado legislative memo claims Pasteur invented pasteurization for milk in 1863. The real history: Pasteur targeted wine and beer, and milk pasteurization came from Franz von Soxhlet in 1886.

Republican Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler’s push to ban raw milk failed for the second year running, as North Carolina’s 2026 Farm Act passed clean.

Humans became lactase persistent through thousands of years of dairy intolerance. Drinking milk through the pain eventually rewrote human genetics.

The Pasteurized Milk Ordinance allows up to 20,000 bacteria per milliliter in finished pasteurized milk. Here’s what the federal standards actually permit, and how licensed raw dairies compare using the same measurements.