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Maintenance Phase · November 13, 2025 · 63m
Raw Milk
Raw milk: how states are repealing pasteurization bans in the name of 'health freedom.' The real history of pasteurization (it saved millions of children from dying of tuberculosis), and why the raw milk movement is nostalgia disguised as science.
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Gordon frames the raw milk debate through the dichotomy of control: individuals have the right to choose their own food, but pasteurization exists because contaminated milk doesn't just harm the drinker — it spreads disease through communities.
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Pasteurization saved millions of lives — raw milk nostalgia erases this history
Hobbes documents that before pasteurization, milk-borne diseases killed thousands of children annually. Raw milk advocates claim 'traditional' milk was safe, but pre-pasteurization child mortality from milk-borne tuberculosis, brucellosis, and typhoid was devastating.Was this useful?