they poop where they eat, i think thier UDDERS get dirty from thier own feces though, even ifs not directly touching, the "juices' could trickle to the udders.

Sorry, what? People are drinking unpasteurised milk ?

I know you are joking but based on the response from COVID, I think you could turn licking a dairy floor into a buisness.

Raw milk cheese isn’t illegal though?

The pursuit of profits above all else, presumably. Or perhaps just plain old human error.

We let the states come up with the rules. Instead of the fed mandating best practices, they just recommend pasteurization. Europe has stricter testing and hygiene rules. IIRC, there's not a significant difference in people getting sick in between the two.

That said, The current administration gutted the hell out of the food safety departments and started getting some real hell over it, so they're now they're 'finding' a new thing to recall every week. It's WAY too frequent for it to be real every time. edit: that said this one is very likely real

Regulations exist because there was a problem being ignored. Companies still love ignoring problems so this shit keeps happening.

The EU has like 3x as many Listeria cases per capita compared to the US because like half the cheese is unpasteurized. The US does have a lot more E. coli across many vectors so there's a few factors but gutting regulatory bodies has obviously been making things worse.

It can be relatively safe if the producers are held to high hygiene standards. The aging process kills most harmful microbes. If you're pregnant, though, you should probably avoid cheese from raw milk unless it's been heated.

And you can pry my boerenkaas from my cold dead hands!

Cheese as a method to make milk safe to consume predates pasteurization. It's not the same risk profile as unpasteurized milk.

There's a solid chance you've eaten cheese make with unpasteurized milk and not known it. As far as I'm aware, there aren't labeling requirements around it in the US or Europe. Whether or not that's sensible, I don't know, but it might give you a better idea of how dangerous governments think this cheese is.

Europe about to be so mad at you.

I'm okay with it as long as it's clearly labeled and doesn't leave the state; preferably the county. The further it travels the harder it gets to trace and the more time bacteria has to multiply.

Most cheeses actually use pasteurized milk. Some styles use raw milk though.

My sister buys her milk fresh from a local farmer. I really don't understand why she would do that. Milk is already gross by design, but it's not like she takes particular good care of her milk. It's setimes out longer than i would be comfortable and also open... Idk.