By Jean Bullitt Darlington
Summary: Part II of a two-part series examining the myths and politics of milk pasteurization. In this article, Darlington reviews the efforts of the U.S. Public Health Service to strong arm communities throughout the country to adopt pasteurization, and he also examines closely the nature of milk production, pointing out that with the technology and equipment available at the time, safe raw-milk production was not just feasible but preferable. "Pasteurization is destructive of many of the essential nutritional values in milk. The only possible defense that could ever have been offered for [it]," the author concludes, "is that it did act as a temporary expedient pending the acquisition of more knowledge of methods insuring [sic] a safe and clean supply." With even better methods available today, the prohibition in many states of the sale of raw milk speaks less to public safety and more to the commercial dominance of the pasteurized milk industry. From The Rural New Yorker. Reprint 28-B, 1947.
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