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raw milk

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noun

  1. unpasteurized milk

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Who needs umbrellas when you’ve got a tanning bed, a chin-up bar, beef-tallow stockpiles, and a gallon of only-sometimes-poisonous raw milk?

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

Kuchipudi emphasized that pasteurization effectively destroys the virus, highlighting the importance of avoiding raw milk.

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

"This raised concerns about occupational risk for farm workers. Also, there is a habit of feeding raw milk to domestic pets, like cats, and there have been instances of cats dying, which we studied previously."

From Science Daily Jun. 23, 2026

Many people who turn to raw milk don’t have a full understanding of that risk, John Lucey told me.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

Whether ideally clean milk is safe or not, raw milk that is not clean is unfit for human consumption.

From Civics and Health by Allen, William H.

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