Blum: Pure-food worshippers put their health at risk?especially when they drink unpasteurized milk (Slate)

In February 1907, a New York physician discovered that his longtime dairy supplier had switched to pasteurized milk. He so detested the practice?not to mention the taste?that, as he wrote to the New York Times, he would rather “run the risk of typhoid, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis rather than [endure] the evils that I believe would follow the systematic and prolonged use of pasteurized milk.”