Public health officials are warning of an outbreak of Campylobacter and E. coli-related complications linked to the consumption of raw milk from a Florida farm.

The raw milk outbreak has impacted 21 people, including six children under the age of 10, causing seven hospitalizations, according to the Florida Department of Health. Two people have faced “severe complications,” the department added.

“Sanitation practices in this farm are of particular concern due to the number of cases,” the department said in an announcement on Monday, though it did not name the particular facility.

The Independent has contacted the department for more information.

Raw milk can only be sold for non-human consumption in the state though some skirt the rule and buy milk meant for pets or animal feeds for their personal use.

The Department of Agriculture has banned the sale of raw milk for human consumption across state lines since 1987 and federal public health officials warn that consuming the unpasteurized milk puts people at risk of exposure to germs including Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, E. coli, Listeria, Brucella, and Salmonella. The risk is especially high for children, the elderly, pregnant people, and those with compromised immune systems.

>https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ecoli-outbreak-florida-raw-milk-rfk-b2801825.html

>>1424614 (OP)
“Pasteurized milk offers the same nutritional benefits without the risks of raw milk consumption,” according to the CDC. “Since the early 1900s, pasteurization has greatly reduced milk-borne illnesses.”

“While the perceived nutritional and health benefits of raw milk consumption have not been scientifically substantiated, the health risks are clear,” the FDA notes on its website. “Since 1987, there have been 143 reported outbreaks of illness – some involving miscarriages, still births, kidney failure and deaths – associated with consumption of raw milk and raw milk products that were contaminated with pathogenic bacteria such as Listeria, Campylobacter, Salmonella, and E. coli.”

Last year, California regulators recalled batches of raw milk from a Fresno farm after bird flu was detected in samples.

Despite the scientific consensus on the risks of unpasteurized milks recent years have seen raw milk take on a countercultural status and become popular among some conservatives and independents.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he only drinks raw milk, and raw milk backers within his Make American Healthy Again push were initially encouraged as Kennedy put raw milk on a wish list of foods and health-related topics he hoped to tackle in office.

Since taking office, Kennedy’s FDA temporarily halted a quality control program for testing milk amid Trump administration staffing cuts at the health department, but the secretary hasn’t delivered the kind of changes to federal milk regulation they were hoping.

Mark McAfee of Raw Farm, a California dairy that counted Kennedy as a customer, has said he was initially encourage by Kennedy and his allies to assist federal officials with changing raw milk rules, but was later rebuffed when he sought a meeting with regulators.

“That’s a bait and switch and that is really quite sad,” he told the Fresno Bee last month.

>>1424614 (OP)
OTHER SOURCES:
>https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/florida-reports-21-cases-ecoli-infections-linked-raw-milk-2025-08-04/
>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-raw-milk-people-sickened/
>https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/florida-officials-warn-risks-drinking-raw-milk-21-infections-rcna223077

>>1424614 (OP)
For the fucking life of me I will never understand the obsession some shitheads have with raw milk. You're literally just skipping a step of the processing process and being like "Yeah bro it's healthier. Trust me the pasteurization does something to it". It's like insisting on stopping at the last step of water purification because the bits of remaining dirt will make you healthier.

>>1424614 (OP)
>“Sanitation practices in this farm are of particular concern due to the number of cases,” the department said in an announcement on Monday, though it did not name the particular facility.
Why wouldn't they name them? Why would Desantis's state government coddle the farm responsible instead of naming and shaming them? I wonder if the farm company donated to Desantis or Trump's campaign.

>>1424614 (OP)
>>1424615
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur#Awards_and_honours
Gee, I wonder why Louis Pasteur was awarded so many and you never will be, Brainworms Kennedy?
Then you wonder why the rest of the Kennedy family have disowned you, that which forces his own children to swim in sewage?

>>1424614 (OP)
This is what being anti-science gets you.

>>1424619
These are the same people who think boiling water more than once causes it to become toxic. They probably think pasteurization involves adding chemicals or something rather than just heating it to the point where microbes die.

>>1424624
>Why would Desantis's state government coddle the farm responsible instead of naming and shaming them?
The same reason ICE politely waits to arrest their immigrant workers on the way home instead of arresting them while working.

>>1424624
>Why wouldn't they name them?
Because food contamination from e.coli is very common.
E.coli is caused by feces and/or urine contaminating a food/water source. The reason why lettuce gets recalled for e.coli every few years is because migrants are literally shitting in fields as they pick crops.
Food contamination is a bigger problem on factory farms because of the lack of care for the animals. Chickens live like they're in auschwitz, for example.

>>1424649
>migrants are literally shitting in fields as they pick crops
They'd be more than happy to shit in toilets if they were provided, maybe we need to start investigating farmers for providing shitty working conditions that are literally hurting America

>>1424649
Cows are literally covered in shit and shit constantly. Keeping cow shit out of the milk is basically impossible unless you thoroughly wash the entire cow immediately before milking and milk by hand.
That's why we pasteurize milk.

I think that if those people who for some reason drink raw milk die out, humanity will not lose anything from it, it's just a pity for the children whose health these people neglect. Child mortality has significantly decreased precisely because Pasteur invented pasteurization

>>1424654
>loudly advertising that they want MAGA children to die
why do you hate white pepole coming from ESL shills in 5...4....3....

>>1424655
If you're taking it like that, it's MAGA who want their own children to die. What are they gonna do? Make them drink pasteurized milk that's not gonna get them sick?

>>1424656
Well its your problem for poisoning their milk and killing their kids.
So I guess they'll try to kill you?

I only eat raw milk when it's made into cheese

>>1424653
Welcome to being a farmer lil bro. In any case, this isn't really an issue against raw milk contrary to the bs and hysteria this thread wants to sell you. provided you look after the cows and take good care of them the raw milk they produce will be better than ever.

>>1424614 (OP)
people with no knowledge of micronutrients and sanitary handling of food talking about how it's acceptable for them to have poop and other garbage in their milk but then heating it makes it fine to consume
sorry bro i prefer clean milk that can be drunken raw
if you prefer poop infestation and low quality drink your milk pasteurized

>>1424888
I don't know why you felt the need to scream at the top of your lungs that you don't know what sterilization is, but we got the message.

>>1424861
Why not pasteurize it though? You're literally increasing the risk for what is effectively the same product. The only real difference between raw milk and pasteurized milk is the increased risk of raw milk making you sick, because all you did is skip the last step of processing the milk.

Just deep refrigerate and consume quickly the raw milk before bacteria can grow.

Oh no. Not 21 people. The other 200 million could be in danger of we don't allow the government to enforce corporate monopolies

>>1424929
The ability to pasteurize your milk is a corporate monopoly? Damn, I didn't know corporate america copyrighted the ability to use heat on liquids.

>>1424928
Bacteria is already in the milk when it leaves the teat, you uneducated nutjob.

>>1424950
>Bacteria is already in the milk when it leaves the teat
Nope. Not from a healthy cow it's not. It can be present on the outside of the teat though and contaminate the milk

>>1424951
So, wrong logic, right answer. You're not stopping the bacteria from getting there.