One of the reasons for banning the sale of unpasteurized milk had to do with the fact that unscrupulous milk sellers would adulterate their milk with other substances.

Also, you really need to become familiar with the history behind the banning of the sale of raw milk. It’s not as cut and dried as you think. As long as you are running a sanitary and healthy dairy farm, and the milk is being tested daily, the risk of infection is about the same as eating raw oysters or eating raw fish. Sorry–but I’ll never give up sushi.

This means that raw milk, along with raw oysters and fish, is probably not suitable for children under the age of 2.

Of course, both of my maternal grandparents, my mother, and all her siblings were raised on raw milk (my grandparents owned their own farm for about 20 years), so there ya go.

I just wanted to say that it troubles me deeply to hear that Nina Planck is writing a book on baby food. I visited her blog where she advocates feeding infant and children “raw milk” (as in unpasteurized cows milk). The risk of disease transmission from unpasteurized milk is so high that is illegal in all states. The FDA notes that children are particularly at risk. While I advocate dietary tolerance, please people, do not serve your children “raw milk”.