In a press release that would leave Pasteur guffawing, Autumn Valley Farm of Worcester, N.Y. has declared that it will be resuming sales of raw milk.

Co-owner Lori McGrath was quoted as saying,

"… everyone understands that the state has to be pacified because the Agriculture Department is deathly afraid that any kind of an outbreak will hurt the commercial milk industry."

Sally Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, which is bankrolling many of the state initiatives to promote raw milk was quoted as saying,

“Raw milk from small family-run farms is immediately refrigerated after milking and is typically sold within a day or two – the freshest milk you can find. I’m hoping that these unnecessary contamination alerts will stop with a little education at the state level.”

A call for education usually means propaganda.  Louis Pasteur would be entertained to learn that dangerous microorganisms have political affiliations and avoid small family-run farms. As Brae and I have noted, outbreaks, usually involving children consuming raw milk, continue unabated.