Voa Agriculture Report - Fresh From the Store, or the Cow? The Debate Over Raw Milk

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is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some milk like what they call "real milk," also known as milk. This is milk that has not been pasteurized homogenized. Homogenization is the mixing process that keeps all fat from rising to the top. Pasteurization kills bacteria heat. Ultra-pasteurized milk is quickly heated to an even temperature, which keeps it fresh in stores longer. In United States, health officials warn that drinking raw milk be dangerous and even deadly. But the popularity seems be growing. Raw milk is often used in specialty . Supporters say raw tastes better than pasteurized, though not can taste a difference. In all of the fifty but Michigan, people are permitted to buy raw milk animals. But only farms in twenty-eight states can sell for humans, under restrictions that differ from state to . People may also buy raw milk in stores in , Connecticut, Maine, New Mexico and South Carolina. Some people live where the sale of raw milk is banned it through a system of cow shares. People buy of a cow or a herd of cows. This , the milk belongs to them as owners. Other people raw milk through milk clubs or cooperatives. Some of clubs operate outside the law. One man in Maryland for years enjoyed thinking that he might be doing illegal by buying raw milk. He had no idea was legal there. In nineteen twenty-four the United States Health Service proposed rules against the interstate sale of milk. Today forty-six states have passed what is known the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance. The exceptions are Pennsylvania, California, York and Maryland. Earlier this year, federal health officials another warning for the public about raw milk. They of the risks from bacteria including salmonella, E. coli, , campylobacter and brucella. The warning said there is no nutritional difference between pasteurized and raw milk, as supporters . And it said raw milk does not contain compounds naturally kill harmful bacteria, as some also say. Activists the government of a prejudice against raw milk. They that outbreaks of sickness from drinking it are not widespread as reports have suggested. And that's the VOA English Agriculture Report, written by Jerilyn Watson. I'm Steve .

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