Is it illegal to drink raw milk?

Answer 1

It's not illegal to drink it, it's illegal to sell it or buy it in some states. People use co-ops to get around this.

But you should never drink raw milk. Even before pasteurizing, people in the olden days BOILED their milk 100% of the time before drinking to kill deadly bacteria. It's only in the past few decades some hippy raw milk movement started by one questionable person started making weird claims about false health benefits.

There are no health benefits from raw milk. Cow antibodies in the milk only protect baby cows from COW diseases, they do not help humans in any way with any human diseases, nor do they benefit a human immune system. The only raw milk humans should drink is breast milk, as babies.

People have died and people have had kidney failure after drinking raw milk. Yes there is a good chance it will be fine when you drink it, but there have been thousands of cases of illness and several deaths. It's playing Russian roulette every time you drink it. A healthy adult may be only sickened with diarrhea and vomiting and kidney disease after drinking it, while a child, elderly, or person who is sick may actually die unable to fend off the bacteria.

Support your local farmers, buy local milk. But buy local pasteurized milk.