Sean Rameswaram

For me, I've heard lefty, crunchy people talking about raw milk personally.

But raw milk is having a moment right now in these United States.

We are not united on raw milk.

What is going on with raw milk?

I bought and drank some pet food raw milk yesterday, Anna.

That's right.

I had to go to Maryland to do it, though.

Yeah.

Remind us why we decided to pasteurize our milk or what the benefits were.

and important in every diet.

Let's go back to middle school for a quick refresher on pasteurization.

It's a centuries-old process that heats up milk to kill off bacteria like salmonella, listeria, or E. coli, then cools it back down.

OK, so there are some clear risks here before pasteurization came around.

And then they were saying basically pasteurize your milk, warm it up a little bit and we will keep more kids alive.

Yeah.

And then since that, you know, medical breakthrough, basically, we've been trying to dial it back.

Why are we trying to dial it back and who's doing the dialing?

And these groups that are advocating for more raw milk, do they necessarily hew to like a certain political party?

And like, of course, red state, blue state, you know, crunchy or libertarian, distrustful of government, wherever it might be.

You might find some affinity in our current secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who last year famously did a shot of raw milk at the White House.