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I'm pretty sure people who drink raw milk are aware of the risks.

• hombre_fatal 6mo ago
  I'm not sure. Judging by my own family, I think a lot of them have been info-silo'ed to think pasteurization is harmful and that "They" want to keep raw milk from you. I'd liken it to claiming an anti-measles-vax person is aware of the risks of measles. They might not believe in the risk at all.
• guyzero 6mo ago
  They very much are not. https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1iydxaa/raw_milk_nearly_killed_me_ama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1iydxaa/raw_milk_nearl...
  • dbcurtis 6mo ago
    That will vary by person. My father-in-law bred and milked pedigreed Holsteins. They had a 1 gallon pasteurizer and would just dip a gallon out of the bulk tank for household use when needed. So, most of the time they had pasteurized, non-homogenized. On occasion, the pasteurizer would break, so for a while they would drink raw milk. But of course understood the risk, and also knew darn well where the milk had come from and how clean the milking facility was.
• fwip 6mo ago
  You'd be surprised. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/u-penn-survey-shows-only-56-americans-understand-drinking-raw-milk-risky https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/u-penn-s...
• canjobear 6mo ago
  At the very least, the bottle I saw on sale at Erewhon was clearly labeled as "not safe for human consumption".