Another "raw milk" incident...

[Major Nikon]

142. Your CDC link doesn't refute what I said

The "raw milk has beneficial bacteria...." assertion has no scientific basis.

The link you provided only talks about nutrients and enzymes which aren't the same as bacteria, and if you read your own link the CDC even acknowledges that some enzymes and nutrients are degraded through pasteurization. Personally I'm not going to make the case that raw milk is significantly more healthy than pasteurized milk. Some people do believe this and there's ample evidence out there to make their case, but regardless pasteurized milk is still a very nutritional food.

The next thing you need to realize about the CDC and the FDA is they are highly biased on the side of big agra and have been for many years. John Sheehan, head of the FDA's dairy division was a manager for the dairy industry for 17 years before he started working for the FDA. His work and the work of his minions is mostly where this misinformation comes from. So your source is not exactly objective and some of the so-called facts they list on your link have been well debunked.

And it is way safer than raw milk. There is just no comparison.

If you're trying to make the case that raw milk is somehow unsafe, good luck. Certainly if the CDC and/or FDA is your only source of information, I can understand why you'd believe as much. Personally I take the civil libertarian viewpoint. If raw milk is not a hazard, it should be available to those who want it, period end of discussion. It doesn't matter if it is or isn't more healthy. It doesn't matter if it does or doesn't make people sick. I'm not convinced raw milk is a greater hazard than a lot of other food products on the market. Furthermore the nature of raw milk and shorter shelf life dictates that it can't be distributed in mass quantities across great distances the way that pasteurized milk can. Therefore whatever risk does exist is limited to small areas and small groups of people. Compare this the way that pasteurized milk and other products like meat and vegetables are distributed and it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that if something does go wrong (and eventually it does), you are putting tens of thousands of people at risk.