ST. PAUL, Minn. — Raw milk gets a raw deal from health and agricultural officials, say proponents who contend its benefits outweigh the risk of drinking unpasteurized milk.
Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation in Washington and founder of "A Campaign for Real Milk," contends most investigations blaming raw milk for making people sick "are highly biased and never proved raw milk actually caused the illnesses." Other foods such as chicken
and seafood pose a much greater danger, she says.
"Raw milk has never killed anyone and pasteurized milk definitely has killed people," she said in a recent telephone interview with United Press International, citing three deaths attributed to tainted pasteurized milk in Massachusetts in 2007 and six deaths from pasteurized cheese in Europe in 2009.
Source: United Press International
