(NewsNation) — The latest front in the culture wars in America now centers on milk. Raw milk has emerged as the new symbol for conservative and right-wing politics, challenging established national public health directives that advocate pasteurized milk as the only safe option. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug … Read more
Bird flu virus particles were able to survive milk pasteurization, a new study shows, fueling fears of an outbreak in humans. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health found that a “small but detectable quantity” of infectious H5N1 bird flu virus was still present following a common approach to pasteurizing milk, according to the study … Read more
(NewsNation) — To pasteurize or not to pasteurize — it’s a question for state legislatures across the nation amid rising bird flu concerns. Currently, more than half of the United States allows the sale of unpasteurized dairy milk for human consumption, but the path to peddling unpasteurized dairy has been winding. What is raw milk? … Read more
Amid a bird flu outbreak in the United States and official warnings to avoid raw milk due to the potential for contamination, an unexpected trend emerges: sales of unpasteurized products seem to be on the rise. Since March 25, when the bird flu virus was confirmed in U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, weekly … Read more
