Asked about critics who might say that raw milk consumption poses a health risk to him or his child, Ortiz said he disagreed. “It’s natural, you’re watching it. It’s 100% real,” he said.

though cats have died of bird flu from drinking infected raw milk. "We in the field, including myself, are really worried about this virus because it poses a real threat of a human epidemic if it ...

Because grocery is such a low-margin business—stores think a lot about how to conserve money to keep their edge,” he says.

House Bill 1162 was advanced even though the FDA explicitly recommends against consuming unpasteurized dairy products to avoid bacterial infections, including salmonella, tuberculosis and listeria.

As H5N1, more commonly known as Avian flu or bird flu, begins to infect dairy cattle, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) says they will start testing raw milk to see if the virus is ...