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Raw milk forgoes one of humanity's most important inventions: pasteurization. Raw dairy products are 150-times more likely to cause disease than pasteurized pr
by mleonhard 5y ago
Raw milk forgoes one of humanity's most important inventions: pasteurization.
Raw dairy products are 150-times more likely to cause disease than pasteurized products [0].
Pasteurization has prevented much suffering and death. It is among the most important technologies of human progress: farming, animal domestication, writing, crop rotation, democracy, pasteurization, vaccines, refrigeration, antibiotics, internal combustion engines, electronics, and the Internet.
[0] https://doi.org/10.3201%2Feid1803.111370 https://doi.org/10.3201%2Feid1803.111370