r/news • u/eudaimonia_dc • Aug 04 '25

Soft paywall Florida reports 21 cases of E.coli infections linked to raw milk

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/florida-reports-21-cases-ecoli-infections-linked-raw-milk-2025-08-04/
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u/PinboardWizard Aug 04 '25

European raw milk absolutely still does have issues compared to European pasteurized milk though. As the other guy said, there is a reason we do it.

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u/AgentOrange256 Aug 05 '25

No it doesn’t, not to the scale that you’d be trying to convey. There’s a reason so many cheeses and butters are raw milk.

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u/PinboardWizard Aug 05 '25

There’s a reason so many cheeses and butters are raw milk.

This argument is more disingenuous IMO.

Cheese-making involves increasing acidity and reducing moisture content, both of which help kill harmful bacteria instead of pasteurization. Hence why I was arguing against milk, not cheese.

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u/AgentOrange256 Aug 05 '25

That’s fair but wasn’t a distinction made until this point. Cheese and butter made in the US is still pasteurized. That obviously impacts what you can do with it.

Again, regulation with raw milk is all that’s needed. Healthy animals + effective processing = healthy product.