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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.

Dairy intolerance doesn’t always extend to raw milk. Many report tolerating it without symptoms, yet the mechanisms behind why have yet to be formally studied.

After submitting Santiago Luna at UFC Fight Night 278, Bryce Mitchell credited raw milk for his performance: “I think it was mostly raw milk.”

One amino acid separates A1 and A2 β-casein. That difference determines whether digestion produces BCM-7, an opioid peptide linked to gastrointestinal effects. Here is what the research shows.