<p>Once widely banned, raw milk consumption is on the rise and states are repealing their bans. No one’s happier about that than the far right. How did we get here?</p><p>NOTE: In the retelling of Pasteur’s early pasteurization, Aubrey misspoke! The culprit wasn’t lactic yeast, it was lactic acid bacteria. Sorry for the slip up!</p><p><b>Support us:</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a></li><li><a href="https://www.yrfatfriendfilm.com/">Watch Aubrey's documentary</a></li><li><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/you-just-need-to-lose-weight-and-19-other-myths-about-fat-people-aubrey-gordon/18405362?ean=9780807006474">Buy Aubrey's book</a></li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897">Listen to Mike's other podcast</a></li><li><a href="http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase">Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more</a></li></ul><p><b>Links!</b></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.markkurlansky.com/books/milk-a-ten-thousand-year-food-fracas/">Milk!: A 10,000 Year Food Fracas</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X22067059">U.S. Consumer survey</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362028X22128449?via=ihub">The Effects of Pasteurization on Vitamins</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-lingering-heat-over-pasteurized-milk/">Lingering Heat over Pasteurized Milk</a></li><li><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/bird-flu-virus-has-been-found-in-raw-milk-heres-a-reminder-of-how-pasteurization-improves-safety">How pasteurization improves safety</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1858/05/22/archives/swill-milk-and-infant-mortality.html">Swill-Milk and Infant Mortality</a></li><li>Alta Dena (<a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-11-me-491-story.html">Court case 1</a>, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-28-me-25038-story.html">Court case 2</a>, <a href="https://www.laweekly.com/raw-milk-controversy-nothing-new/">Alta Dena's raw milk history</a>)</li><li><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/raw-farm-raw-milk-mark-mcafee/">A Raw Milk Magnate Has Spent Years Fighting Public Health Agencies</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/dining/08raw.html">Should This Milk Be Legal?</a></li><li><a href="https://www.goerie.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/27/how-did-this-amish-milk-farmer-become-a-maga-icon/81160544007/">The Amish farmer who ignited outrage over raw milk</a></li><li><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/raw-milk-explained-tiktok-influencers-health-1235042145/">Why Are People Promoting Raw Milk?</a> </li><li><a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/the-quest-for-raw-milk/">The Quest for Raw Milk</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/magazine/raw-milk-danger-benefits.html">Some Raw Truths About Raw Milk</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/business/raw-milk-bird-flu-infowars-disinformation.html">Right Wing Commentators Are Pushing Misinformation</a></li><li><a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-raw-milk-went-from-hippie-to-maga.html">How Raw Milk Went From Hippie to MAGA</a> </li><li><a href="https://apnews.com/article/bird-flu-raw-milk-h5n1-6398d2eda26eb41797ee2700cf9d036b">Here's why raw milk drinkers need to be concerned about bird flu</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-flu-raw-milk-influencers-fda-warning/">Influencers promote raw milk </a></li></ul><p>Thanks to <a href="https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/">Doctor Dreamchip</a> for our lovely theme song!</p><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a></p>