I think the statistic bear out that tainted vegetables sicken or kill people almost on a regular basis. Why all the fuss over milk? Humans have been consuming raw milk for several thousand years. If a herd is kept in sanitary conditions and the cows allowed to eat their natural diet of grass, there is no problem.

Why do people feel so strongly about raw milk? Why do you think that, just because scientists have come up with a way to destroy all bacteria, whether good or bad, in milk, everyone should be forced to drink processed milk, if they want milk at all? How about we all just go live in bubbles so that our skin never sees bacteria? Or how about we never have physically intimate interactions with our spouse ever again, since so many bacteria are transferred in the process?

Grow a pair and live. The limiting of freedom (and the precedence being set by such an act) is why people are upset. You don’t see raw milk drinkers running around yelling that processed milk should be illegal to sell, so why yell at people who want the liberty to drink raw milk? Hypocrites.

As a comparison, about 1 in every 1,000 people that get campylobacteriosis develop GBS (a flaccid paralysis syndrome post-infection). In contrast, about 1 in every 1 million people who get a flu vaccine develops GBS. Campylobacter is most often due to eating contaminated food…not just raw milk, but the statistics show that your odds of having a serious complication are worse from eating contaminated food than getting a fluvaccination:

http://www.realrawmilkfacts.com/real-life-stories/#RawMilkFactsVideo5

(The world record holder in the bench press back in the 1970s -Larry Pacifico-used to admonish young weightlifters that were trying to gain weight to drink milk. And I’ve found that I gain at least a pound of week when I drink (cows) milk. I wonder if anyone has looked at the adverse effects of this weight gain on Americans vs people who consume water and the like? )

We need an analysis of what happens to all the nutrients when you subject milk to high heat-not like nature intended. Mr. Marler doesn’t look at that.

Despite the recent anti-vax nuttiness, the number of children getting vaccines is huge in comparison to the number of people drinking raw milk. Serious adverse events from vaccines are extremely rare, despite this large population.

If you do attempt to run some numbers on this, you’ll have to differentiate between a serious adverse event and running a slight fever for a day.

We all know that nearly every bit of chicken from the grocery store is contaminated but it is sold that way assuming people will cook it themselves. Cook your milk if you want but leave me alone to decide for myself just like factory farmed chicken, pork, beef, or fish.

This is correctly called a “double standard”?.