Children's Health Defense By Sally Fallon Morell
Story at a glance:
- The campaign against raw milk began with a fabricated 1945 article in Coronet magazine claiming a deadly brucellosis outbreak in a nonexistent town, leading to restrictive laws against raw milk starting in Michigan in 1948.
- A 2007 PowerPoint presentation by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official falsely maligned raw milk using flawed reports; none of these reports proved pasteurization would have prevented alleged outbreaks.
- The 2024 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announcement attributed symptoms in dairy cows to avian flu without a confirmed viral presence in milk, relying on questionable PCR testing methods.
- Despite claims, there is no peer-reviewed evidence supporting the transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza from raw milk to humans.
- While pasteurization is promoted as making milk safe, the actual diversion or destruction of milk from infected animals suggests that pasteurization may not guarantee safety.
Few of us were born when the forces for milk pasteurization launched the first major attack on Nature’s perfect food.
In 1945, a magazine called “Coronet” published an article, “Raw Milk Can Kill You,” blaming raw milk for an outbreak of brucellosis in a town called Crossroads, U.S.A., killing one-third of the inhabitants. The “Reader’s Digest” picked up the story and ran it a year later.
Just one problem with this piece of “reporting.” There was no town called Crossroads and no outbreak of brucellosis. The whole story was a fabrication — otherwise known as a lie. And lies about raw milk have continued ever since.
Unfortunately, the fictitious Crossroads story paved the way for laws against selling raw milk, starting with Michigan in 1948.
Here’s another example of lies against raw milk (which I referenced in an earlier post, but it is worth repeating).
In 2007, John F. Sheehan, the FDA, the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and the Division of Dairy and Egg Safety prepared a PowerPoint maligning raw milk. It was presented to the 2005 National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments by Cindy Leonard.
As shown in the table below, all of the 15 reports associating outbreaks of foodborne illness with raw milk that Sheehan cites are seriously flawed…
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