Originally Posted by
Bastian
My point there was that if raw milk was notorious for killing people, we would have stopped drinking it ages ago. Yet it is a staple.
This is a non-sequitur; your conclusion does not follow from your premise. First off, you're assuming that anyone criticizing raw milk must be saying that raw milk is so much worse than the rest of the unsanitary, diseased-filled crap people ate and drank for millennia (hence the short lifespan). That's not at all what we're saying. Drinking contaminated water has killed millions over recorded history, too. But like filtered water is considered much, much safer than water from a puddle outside, pasteurized milk is also considered safer than raw milk. Technology tends to do that.
This is a non-sequitur; your conclusion does not follow from your premise. First off, you're assuming that anyone criticizing raw milk must be saying that raw milk is so much worse than the rest of the unsanitary, diseased-filled crap people ate and drank for millennia (hence the short lifespan). That's not at all what we're saying. Drinking contaminated water has killed millions over recorded history, too. But like filtered water is considered much, much safer than water from a puddle outside, pasteurized milk is also considered safer than raw milk. Technology tends to do that.
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