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Takeaways From AP’s Report on the Push for Raw Milk Intensifying
More than 40 bills would ease access to unpasteurized dairy as public health experts cite 200 outbreaks and 2,600 illnesses since 1998.
- Legislators in 18 states have introduced more than 40 bills this session to expand access to raw milk, reflecting surging consumer demand despite persistent public health warnings.
- Public health experts warn that unpasteurized milk harbors dangerous germs including E. coli and salmonella; a CDC review documented more than 200 outbreaks sickening more than 2,600 people between 1998 and 2018.
- Mari Tardiff of Ashland, Oregon, was hospitalized for five months in 2008 after drinking contaminated raw milk, while a recent outbreak tied to California-based Raw Farm sickened nine people, half of them children.
- State Sen. Michael Testa compares the push to marijuana legalization, asking "Why shouldn't someone be able to consume raw milk?" while Republican state Rep. Bryant Wolfin argues regulation enables "freedom of choice."
- U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised last May to halt "aggressive suppression" of raw milk, while federal legislation like the Interstate Milk Freedom Act seeks to prevent states from restricting interstate movement.
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Push for raw milk intensifies across the US, despite illnesses and warnings
Backers of raw milk are pushing to make the potentially dangerous product more widely available and easier to obtain, even as a new outbreak — one of at least five in the past year — sickens U.S. children.
·Syracuse, United States
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"If you wouldn't lick a cow's bottom, why would you drink raw milk?" asks a biologist from Washington University.
Raw Milk Push in the U.S. Intensifies, Despite Outbreaks and Scientists' Warnings
(MedPage Today) -- Backers of raw milk are pushing to make the potentially dangerous product more widely available and easier to obtain, even as a new outbreak -- one of at least five in the past year -- sickens U.S. children. More than three...
·New York, United States
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