1) Drinking raw milk from the same cow every day
2) Drinking raw milk from a different cow every day (e.g. from a small market)
3) Drinking raw milk from hundreds of random farms mixed together (e.g. as might be processed)
If a cow has a 1% chance of carrying a disease, #1 means you have a 1% chance of getting sick. #3 means you have approximately a 100% chance of getting sick. #2 means you have an estimated time of 3-6 months to get sick, depending on the size of the pool of cows.
Personally, I believe these are the sorts of risks people ought to be able to accept, but only with full knowledge and transparency both about where the milk came from, and of associated risks.
There are animals in the Amazon that can eat poison dart frogs... I doubt you want to try that.
That doesn't necessarily mean drinking from another species is safe.
Not that I'm suggesting that raw milk is a good idea. I've drunk milk from the vat, and it is the cream content that gives it the different taste. But we invented civilisation for a reason.
And if someone is milking into a bucket, stay the fuck away from that stone age shit.
This is a big assumption w/o any sort of evidence. However, this only applies if farmer are drinking milk themselves. Kinda reminds me of agricultural practice where farmer don't put pesticides on the food they eat, but they add a lot of pesticides that goes into sales for high income.
Farms are businesses and the dairy industry is an industry. Food safety is taken seriously, at least where I live.
Same here, in rural Romania (at least that's what my grandma was doing when me and my brother were kids). To be honest though, we (meaning me and my brother) did use to eat the foam-y thing that was present on top of the milk immediately after our grandma or grandpa had finished milking the cows. It was still worm, as it had just came out of the cows, so to speak. We never had any health-related issue about it.