Is it dangerous to drink raw milk? The so-called experts say so, which leads to the real point of this blog – because it's not just about raw milk.
How much faith do you put in the recommendations made by “experts”?
If you’re like I used to be, you considered the word of people connected with “three-letter” agencies to be almost law. FDA approval meant a product was safe to use. The CDC made medical recommendations with our health as the utmost priority. And so on. After all, these were the people who knew the most about their respective topics, and the entire purpose of these agencies was to keep us safe. Right?
Same with doctors. I once believed them to be the ultimate authorities on health. After all, they spent years learning about it, and that had to count for something, didn’t it?
I’ve shared before about my realization about the ingredients in bread. That was an FDA approved ingredient. Maybe it has no detrimental effects to the human body. I don't know, but I was not willing to take that chance when I could easily make bread myself that I knew wouldn’t contain any yoga mat ingredients.
Once you’ve realized the three-letter agencies don’t always make sound recommendations, it’s hard to trust anything they say.
For instance, if you search the internet for information about raw milk, you’ll find horror stories galore. These agencies will list everything that might possibly happen to you, up to and including death, if you ignore their advice and drink milk as God gave it to use – right from the cow. Raw milk has thousands of years of history with very few incidents, and the CDC reported only 2 raw milk-related deaths from 1998 to 2011. (Nearly 10 million Americans drink raw milk, in case you thought that number was low.)
Meanwhile, in 2022, medical mistakes were the third leading cause of death in the U.S. More than 250,000 people lost their lives in 2022 under the care of doctors or hospitals.
And that isn’t a one-time statistic, either. Medical error was the third leading cause of death in 2013, too, with around a quarter-million deaths that year as well.
It’s also estimated that more than 100,000 people die each year from taking prescription drugs *as prescribed*. That means the medication itself is unsafe or it wasn't appropriate for that person.
Now, of course, there’s going to be some risk. After all, doctors are human. We can’t expect every surgery to go perfectly and every diagnosis and prescription to be on point. Mistakes happen.
What gets me is the fact that the “experts” will tell us to not drink raw milk because it caused two deaths in 13 years, but they’ll encourage us to see a doctor for every imaginable circumstance, even though medical mistakes caused 3.25 MILLION deaths in that same 13 years.
The math doesn’t work.
We need to make decisions for ourselves based on facts and not rely on agencies and health care systems that put us in more danger than the things they try to warn us away from.
It starts with being informed.
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