The wiki on Pasteurization is a real page turner! > Prior to industrialization, dairy cows were kept in urban areas to limit the time between milk production a

The wiki on Pasteurization is a real page turner! > Prior to industrialization, dairy cows were kept in urban areas to limit the time between milk production and consumption, hence the risk of disease transmission via raw milk was reduced. As urban densities increased and supply chains lengthened to the distance from country to city, raw milk (often days old) became recognized as a source of disease. For example, between 1912 and 1937, some 65,000 people died of tuberculosis contracted from consuming milk in England and Wales alone. Because tuberculosis has a long incubation period in humans, it was difficult to link unpasteurized milk consumption with the disease. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization#Milk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization#Milk