Raw milk: Idaho ranchers on why not to pasteurize

In 1987 the FDA banned interstate shipping of raw milk and today it's retail sale is only legal in dozen or so states. There's a very devoted group who believe that pasteurized milk is "dead milk" and are fighting to make it easier to buy. Raw milk has such a following that people form secret clubs or buy portions of a cow in order to circumvent state laws regulating its sale.

In March of 2010, Idaho made things just a bit easier for producers of raw milk. A small-herd exemption was passed that allowed farmers with 7 or fewer goats or sheep and 3 or fewer cows to produce raw milk or raw milk products for human consumption.
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In this video, the folks at Bellevue Idaho's Cottonwood Ranch milk their small herd and explain why they think that pasteurization "spoils the taste" and "changes the contents into stuff that you may or may not be able to use." Or as 30-year-old Eric Barney explains, why "the bought milk" tastes like "cardboard cow".

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