Anna Merlin

So this is what's super interesting.

Before Kennedy was in office as HHS secretary, he was famously really bullish on raw milk.

He had this famous tweet in 2024 where he talked about all the things that the FDA was going to stop suppressing under his leadership.

You know, he said the FDA's war on public health is about to end.

And he listed all these things, including raw milk.

But since then, much to the frustration of big players in the raw milk industry, there actually hasn't been any federal action to make raw milk more legal or to make it legal across state lines.

Kennedy actually hasn't

done anything on that.

And Mark McAfee told me that he can't get Kennedy to, like, return his calls.

One thing that has happened instead, though, is that the Trump administration has suddenly been trumpeting their emphasis on whole milk, right?

You might have seen this a few months ago.

They were saying, you know, we're bringing whole milk back to the schools.

Whole milk is no longer illegal in America, which it never was.

Yeah, exactly.

So yeah, a lot of their language around whole milk really echoes kind of the language around raw milk that you see among raw milk advocates, but it's not.

They actually have not talked about raw milk at all.

So you can speculate, you know,

why this might have happened, if this is a liability issue, if there are still people at the CDC and the FDA who are like, it would be a really bad idea for the federal government to promote this.

But yeah, I would say that for raw milk and raw dairy advocates, the fact that the Trump administration has not been on their side is clearly a big disappointment.

So earlier this year, an infant died in New Mexico from listeria that public health officials there think was probably linked to the infant's mom drinking it during pregnancy.