A newborn baby died from a listeria infection likely linked to the child’s mother drinking raw milk during pregnancy, health officials said.
New Mexico officials this week warned people to avoid consuming unpasteurized dairy products following the death. Interest in and sales of raw milk have been rising in recent years, fueled by social media and growing support from the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement.
Pasteurizing milk started as a convenience for customers; but many now days have forgotten what always happened to milk before it was drunk
People used to home pasteurize all the time; find any recipe in an older cookbook (1970s and before) and the first thing you do is scald the milk. Nobody drank unscalded milk.
The raw milk proponents, who believe it, forgot their own family history.