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In reply to the discussion: Another "raw milk" incident... [View all]Major Nikon
(36,925 posts)Basically you're just trying to channel an emotion based argument, and a very poor one at that.
Guess what happened to the woman who recently went on a rampage against he raw milk producer who she claims gave her son kidney disease? Her ambulance chasing lawyer had to settle out of court with the insurance company that represented the dairy. The amount wasn't disclosed, but it couldn't have been much because the dairy got a lower insurance rate the next year. The California Dept of Agriculture also found no evidence the dairy was at fault and reimbursed them for the recall:
http://www.listen2yourgut.com/blogimages/CDFA%20_recall_stipulation_release.pdf
Thanks to the misinformation by the CDC, FDA, and the dairy industry, there's plenty of cases where people allege raw milk is the culprit when they get food poisoning yet zero evidence is actually found linking the source back to the dairy.
Raw milk and lots of other products make people sick from time to time. The question of whether raw milk is a safe product or not does not depend on whether or not it makes people sick. It depends on whether raw milk is more dangerous than other comparable products like lunch meats and ground beef. So far the FDA and the CDC haven't made that case.
The CDC and the FDA also suppress relevant data showing the health benefits of raw milk including two studies which suggest an inverse relationship between raw milk consumption, asthma and allergies while at the same time promoting other studies against raw milk which are dubious at best.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17456213
Kinda makes you go, hmmmm.