Where I live, there are still some small, family-run dairies, and they all have customers who come to them looking for local, pasture-raised, raw milk. People w

Where I live, there are still some small, family-run dairies, and they all have customers who come to them looking for local, pasture-raised, raw milk. People will even break the law to get it, so there's definitely a market, but current regulations make it difficult to serve it. Small, direct-to-customer farms are the ones most likely to lean into customer-pleasing animal welfare practices. But to profitably sell direct to customers within the law in most US jurisdictions, a dairy pretty much has to put in its own pasteurization setup, a major investment. That's kept dairy from developing the equivalent of cage-free eggs.