When raw milk separates what is on the bottom is skim milk. We used to use the cream on top to make ice cream.
Normally we shook it back together and it was great.
The dairy industry made it illegal, so much so that if they catch you selling it they raid your house, take all the computers and search for all your money as if you were cooking meth.
Citing cases of people getting sick from it is useless because it is and was so rare, they just wanted a lock on the industry.
Now that it is illegal to sell, some cheeses made in the US are usually inferior to their foreign counterparts because the latter are made with real, whole, raw milk.
There is another thing but it is not easy to substantiate. There are no traces of it on the net, I would have to go to old newspaper articles and search through them. Some may remember that they started putting a virus in milk that feed on the bacteria that makes it spoil.
I don't know if they still do but you can test your milk. Leave it out to spoil. Now does it turn sour or bitter ?
There is much more to the legalities of food, and I am not talking restaurant requirements. There was an outfit caled Farm To Fork and they had a simple big dinner. The city shut them down on some technicalities.
In many cities it is illegal to give food to the homeless. You cna do it through a church, or if you own a restaurant but not just stand there and offer.
Some years ago partly due to the milk issue a superior court in Wisconsin ruled that people do not have the right to raise and eat the foods of their choice. In their opinion they said the plaintiffs, the ones who sued to be allowed to do it, had not developed their case. Aren't courts supposed to err on the side of people's rights ? I guess not there.
Well life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not in the Constitution, it is in the Declaration. that means it describes the spirit of the law but is not law.
The law is too much into food except when it comes to clean restaurants. That I can go with, and even requiring those big hoods for fires.
I have seen plenty of Kitchen Nighmares where Ramsay goes into the big fridge and frezer and finds all kinds of rotten things. Don't they have inspections once in a while ? I mean moldy with rats crawling around. How many places do we go where our food is stored near that ?
Other than that, as long as it is clean they should be able to do what they want.
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