Ruining the Reputation of Nourishing Foods
Here's a story you're going to want to understand if you drink raw milk
I recently released a thread on the reputation of raw milk and how it became tarnished through lies, death, and corporate greed in the swill milk industry. The context of understanding how raw milk became regulated is fascinating and worth understanding. In the 1850s, cities had grown overwhelmingly from the Industrial Revolution, and the food system was stressed because of it.
The dairy industry became undermined by the corrupt and growing swill milk industry, which produced large amounts of milk (50-80% of the milk in northeast cities came from swill milk production). The problem? The animals were treated terribly and were often tied to a single post for their entire lives. The quality of the milk suffered and diseases ran rampant because of it. Here’s the full story on what happened:
