Raw milk is natural and brings you closer to the earth.
It is also a great way to get sick.
Thats right,the TikTokers are drinking raw milkout of spiteor maybe just for the affiliate marketing deals.
What is raw milk?
Raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurized.
The regular milk you buy in the grocery store is pasteurized as a basic safety measure.
Raw milkislegal in some states, although laws vary.
In many states all of these are illegal.
The FDA has counted143 disease outbreaks linked to raw milksince 1987. coliin a form that can pass from person to person after someone contracts it from drinking raw milk.
Why is everybody talking about raw milk?
Two things happened recently to put raw milk on the public radar.
RNA from the virushas been found in samples of grocery store milk.
The government is trying to take away your natural pure, (bacteria-laden) raw milk!
Its time to fight back!
At least one conservative group has been sellinggot raw milk?
People want their raw milk, germs and all.
What are the TikTokers saying about raw milk?
As you might expect: anything that gets engagement.
None of this is supported by scientific consensus.
No nutrients have been removed, and you cant kill vitamins or minerals.
Beneficial bacteriacanbe killed by pasteurization, but killing bacteria is kind of the whole point, remember?
Theres no procedure that only kills bad bacteria while leaving the good ones; its all-or-nothing.
(Probiotic yogurt is made by adding known good bacteria to pasteurized milk.)
He said that hes sure milk from this farm is safe, because they test it.
So I visited the farms website.
Ididfindthe page where influencers can sign up for their affiliate program, which pays cash to a select few.
Gwyneth Paltrow haspublicly name-dropped the same farm, so she might be on the list.
So I should drink raw milk, right?
kindly do not.As the FDA points out, all the major TikTok talking points are wrong.
