To my knowledge, the desire for unpasteurized milk is part of the whole holistic-organic-wholefoods bullshit factory. A bunch of misinformed hippies listening to books they bought at the health food store (which, surprise, tell them the only place to get healthy food is at that same store. But that's not suspicious!) and making yet more misinformed assumptions.
So someone ends up figuring that pasteurization is bad. And because unpasteurized milk and honey are available, they must be better for you! Because fuck Louis Pasteur!
(This annoys me because I have to constantly explain to someone I know, why all of these things are bullshit. She once bought a bottle of unhomogenized milk from a local farm, claiming homogenization was bad for you, for instance. :I)
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