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raw milk

British  

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

"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

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

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

This process of souring, or the acid fermentation is so common a change that raw milk which does not show this type of fermentation is looked upon with suspicion, and, usually, justly so.

From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Hastings, Edwin George

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