Another "raw milk" incident...

[Honeycombe8]

79. I smoked for over 30 years and am one of the healthiest people I know.

Does that mean that smoking is not bad for you?

There are anecdotes, first-person stories of isolated incidences, history, and statistics. I'm of the opinion that all these things need to be considered. I've noticed over the years that there is always a story that supposedly proves the opposite of a scientific study (I eat only 500 calories a day and still don't lose weight!....I ate a strict high-fiber, anti-oxidant rich, low-fat diet, and didn't clear up my clogged arteries until I switched to a high-cholesterol, fat-laden diet!....My tumor went away without chemo because I just prayed it away, showing the power of prayer over technology!....I eat a low-cal diet and excericse hours every day but I'm still morbidly obese, which shows I can't lose weight no matter what!....my grandma smoked for 50 years and never got emphysema or lung cancer so that shows that the studies are wrong in saying smoking is a cause of those things!)

There are always exceptions. But to me that doesn't negate facts that are generally applicable.

You say people have been drinking raw milk for centuries. I don't think people have been drinking raw COW'S milk for centuries, have they? Even so, it doesn't mean that some didn't die from it. They may not have known what caused the death, and of course, even if they did, there wasn't an alternative.

As for me, I drink organic. But it's not raw. I've never seen raw milk in the stores.