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Raw Milk: The Nutrition Upside Is Overblown, the Safety Downside Is Real

Summary

The honest asymmetry on raw milk: **its nutritional advantage over pasteurised is the weakly-supported part** (pasteurisation barely touches protein or digestibility), while **its pathogen risk is the well-evidenced part** — and the 2024–25 H5N1 outbreak in dairy cattle means even careful sourcing can't fully neutralise the danger; benefits are real-but-not-vital, risks are real-but-partly-conditional, and both camps have overblown their case.

MODERATELast updated June 2026
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