[nathanaldensr]

"As far as you can tell" is just your misinformed and shit-stirring opinion. Pasteurization is unnatural and changes the quality and nutrition of the milk. Baby cows don't drink pasteurized milk, and neither do human babies. In other words, you're projecting--hard.

Disclaimer: I drink pasteurized milk like everyone else because raw milk is expensive and hard to source. When I was a child I drank raw milk in glass bottles sourced from a local dairy since I grew up in a dairy town. I suffered no ill effects.

[pjc50]

> Pasteurization is unnatural

So what?

> changes the quality and nutrition of the milk

Does it? In what way, and with what evidence? People say things like this without ever getting specific.

> Baby cows don't drink pasteurized milk, and neither do human babies

No, but (a) there's a much shorter supply chain there in nature, which is the big problem, (b) cows consume all sorts of things that are inedible by humans, and (c) it's not actually "natural" for humans to drink cow's milk at all, that's a relatively recent genetic adaptation (lactose tolerance) that not everybody has.

[rimunroe]

>> Baby cows don't drink pasteurized milk, and neither do human babies

> No, but (a) there's a much shorter supply chain there in nature, which is the big problem, (b) cows consume all sorts of things that are inedible by humans, and (c) it's not actually "natural" for humans to drink cow's milk at all, that's a relatively recent genetic adaptation (lactose tolerance) that not everybody has.

and (d) some places, especially large dairies, do feed baby cows pasteurized milk. They do this to limit the spread of illness among their livestock and to use up waste milk. Some do this with colostrum as well.

[addicted]

Leaving a comment on Hacker News is orders of more magnitude more unnatural than pasteurization.

For that matter, humans drinking the milk of another mammal after they’ve been weaned off their own mamas is ridiculously unnatural.

But you know what is extremely natural? H5N1, ecoli, etc.

The idea that “unnatural” vs “natural” provides any sort of basis for decision making in human life today is laughably stupid.

[blueflow]

There is no such thing as "natural". Its your opinion in disguise.

[happymellon]

> Pasteurization is unnatural

Completely agree. You should also eat raw potatoes!

I hear ricin is completely natural too.