869 karma · joined November 24, 2008
"Nutritional value" is a very ambiguous. It's only in what you measured. Raw milk advocates are going to value things like bacteria and if proteins were changed. Pasteurization by definition is going to kill the bacteria and change the protein structure. The main benefit for pasteurization is that it makes milk a commodity. You can have unsanitary farms with high bacteria counts that don't make people sick. This is both good and bad. Good because it means more milk available with less disease. Bad because our bodies are complex and some bacteria is healthy.
My recommendation is that if someone wants to consume raw milk, they should have a personal relationship with the dairy.
It's amazing that you can just see something that you like and then order it.
Side note: all insurance claims are subsidization.