#such additives includeeeeee molasses egg shells chalk and pureed cow brains apparently!

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OP I do need you to know that the morons are in no way new; back when pasteurization was first being pushed for, LOADS of people were against it (though the modern idiots are more annoying to deal with, as they flagrantly ignore DECADES of evidence).

Tl;dr: People have always been weirdly against the idea of boiling their milk.

Folks were aware of the nasty stuff in milk for ages. A New York Times' article from around 1858 suggested about 8,000 children had died the previous year due to impure milk, and German chemist Franz von Soxhlet first suggested applying Louis Pasteur's method of wine sanitation to milk in 1886. Since pasteurization didn't become standard practice in the United States until the 1930s, you can probably guess how popular that idea was!

People complained that pasteurized milk lost its flavor and/or nutritional value (I'm sure all those bacteria must have added a delightful aftertaste). We even have examples of straight-up lies being spread in defense of raw milk; In 1898 the American Pediatric Society warned "feeding babies heated [pasteurized] milk could lead them to develop scurvy." (obviously very much not true! Why would you lie about scurvy specifically, we already know what causes that!)

For a time, people were more willing to drink milk that had formaldehyde added to it than milk that had been pasteurized--which sparked this delightful quote: upon being asked if if he really thought formaldehyde in milk was really that bad for infants, Indiana’s chief public health officer, John Newell Hurty, replied “Well, it’s embalming fluid that you are adding to milk. I guess it’s all right if you want to embalm the baby.”

In 1908, the Surgeon General released a 600-page report attributing most childhood deaths at the time to impure milk and advocating for widespread pasteurization (better late than never). Even then, people weren't super on board (I'm just gonna screenshot this bit whole, because I don't think I could do it justice)

[Image ID: A screenshot of text that reads "Despite the mounting scientific evidence, pasteurization still spread slowly. Beyond nutritional concerns, some feared that it was just a superficial intervention. As one commentator noted in a March 1908 issue of Outlook, “Wholesale pasteurization, while lulling consumers into a false sense of security, would vastly increase the burdens of milk inspectors and make their work more difficult if not entirely impossible.” / Others bemoaned the high costs of pasteurization and argued that it could lead to other maladies. In Chicago, for example, Alderman Jacob Hey called it “false science” and said it was the cause of rickets and scurvy." End of ID.]

Thats right, people have been complaining about "fake science" for over 100 years! Yay!

Again, pasteurization didn't become widespread in the United States until the 1930s, about 50 years after Franz von Soxhlet first suggested it. Because we REALLY like drinking our milk as gross and bacteria-laden as possible.

(Sources linked under the cut)

people in western countries used to get brucellosis, tuberculosis, q fever, etc from milk all the time and then we ended that with pasteurization programs and now a bunch of morons are like "actually getting a horrible disease from drinking milk owns. we need raw milk."