Raw Milk Or Regulation?

NPR News ALL THINGS CONSIDERED with Guy Raz and the Colbert Report both recently reported on the June 30, 2010 police raid of the Rawesome raw foods co-op in Venice, California over the sale of raw milk.

Opponents of raw milk site the cases (some fatal) of E. coli 0157, antibiotic resistant salmonellas and campylobacters, listeria leading to severe vomiting, diarrhea, and eventually bloody diarrhea with internal bleeding causing the eventual destruction of vital organs.

Proponents such as Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University and author of  "Food Politics", stated that the raw food movement originated in the 1930s with a dentist named Weston Price whose studies of the benefits of raw food were later incorporated into the work of the Weston Price Foundation.