The 100-Year Life Health Education and Government
In the 1800s, the French chemist Louis Pasteur showed how microbes caused wine contamination and the pasteurisation process was born.
In 2024, consuming unpasteurised (raw) milk has become a calling card for the libertarian right – including Donald Trump’s nominee for health secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr.
Drinking raw milk, although not guaranteed to make you sick, can lead to potentially deadly infections including E. coli, salmonella and listeria. It is particularly dangerous for children and during pregnancy.
Earlier this year, food safety experts said “it defied logic” that sales of raw milk had increased by 65 per cent year-on-year, despite warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that bird flu had been confirmed in US cattle for the first time.
But this isn’t really about milk. It’s about how the MAGA movement has found common ground with the anti-establishment left to sow mistrust in federal agencies, a stance fully embodied in RFK Jr’s ‘Make America Healthy Again’.
