Minnesota law permits raw milk sales on the farm at which the milk was produced.
California apparently does allow the sale of raw milk but requires a permit to do so.
The fat content of raw milk varies with cow breed, feed, and stage of lactation among other factors.
In fact, it is hardly a lone instance of government cracking down on the sale of raw milk.
To many in the national food-freedom movement, raw milk is the test case.
Prices for raw milk are expected to rise at least 25% this year.
The dairy produces a blue cheese made from raw milk which, although similar to the famous cheese, cannot be called Stilton.
Advocates of raw milk hold that pasteurization kills enzymes that make food digestible and bacteria that contribute to a healthy immune system.
Raw milk stirs the hedonism of food lovers in a special way.
Police arrested James Stewart, the owner of Rawesome Foods, and two raw milk suppliers, Sharon Ann Palmer and Eugenie Bloch of Healthy Family Farms.
Tells about support for raw milk among Tea Partiers and libertarians.
The core assumption behind the CDFA's rules, however, is that all dairy products are made from raw milk, thus requiring elaborate processes that involve proper pasteurisation.
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The judge said he didn't want the case to turn into a debate about the merits or dangers of raw milk, and prohibited attorneys from discussing it.
The risks associated with raw milk are controversial, but have of course drawn the ire of regulators who have either banned the sales outright, or required a permit.
Some 30 states allow raw milk sales for human consumption, according to the Food and Drug Administration, although federal rules prohibit the movement of these products across state lines.
Drinking raw milk, they say, confers numerous health benefits vitality, digestive vigor, strong teeth, clear skin and even has the power to treat serious ailments, such as diabetes, cancer, and autism.
During deliberations, which capped a five-day trial in Sauk County Circuit Court, dozens of farmers, food-rights activists and Hershberger family members filled the courthouse, sharing raw milk from Mr. Hershberger's farm.
Many mainstream dairies and public-health officials have long warned of raw milk's health concerns and see that, as well as its potential to steal away market share, as threats to the industry.
And they prefer foreign brands: they still remember the melamine scandal of 2008, when at least six babies died because Chinese firms had added a toxic chemical to raw milk to make it appear higher in protein.
Even before James Stewart, the leader of the milk-trafficking gang known as the Rawesome Three, hired an attorney from one of the top marijuana-defense firms in Los Angeles, the analogy was plain: raw milk has become the new pot, only harder to get.
Drinking raw milk carries a certain amount of risk, as do many other acts that adults are allowed to engage in, from drinking alcohol, to driving in a steel cage every morning at unbelievable speeds along with thousands of other people on busy city streets.
"It's impossible to make an unsafe product safe, " said Shawn Pfaff, spokesman for the Wisconsin Safe Milk Coalition, an industry lobbying group opposed to raw-milk sales.
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Avoid unpasteurized juice, cheese or milk, and raw or undercooked meats.
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Other dietary factors which appeared to reduce lung cancer risk were raw and green vegetables, fruit and milk, but carrot, pumpkin, egg and coffee appeared to increase risk.
Now state officials have cut fees incurred for over-production of milk in Norway in the hopes that will boost milk production and get the raw materials needed for butter-making to local dairy cooperatives like Tine.
Toxoplasmosis can be found in raw meat, cat faeces and soil where they have defecated and unpasteurised goat's milk.
To make it, fresh milk from grass or hay-fed cows within a 20km radius is poured raw into a copper pot and heated until it begins to curdle.
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