Drinking it immediately after milking the (healthy) cow is perfectly safe, and people have been drinking unpasteurized milk that was taken from the cow that morning for millenia. The risk/reward ratio is definitely not worth it though if you dont plan on drinking the milk within an hour of milking though.
The milk is probably safe if it’s pasteurized. Not so sure about the ranchers who are repeatedly exposed to sick cows tho.
They may be more immune than anyone. Like how milk maids didn’t get smallpox because they were exposed to cowpox first.
Not all farmers have healthy immune systems and it only takes one.
Just as long as they aren’t spreading it to everyone else they run into who doesn’t work with cows.
Not to leave out many farmers drink raw milk.
Source: Was married into a dairy farm.
Drinking it immediately after milking the (healthy) cow is perfectly safe, and people have been drinking unpasteurized milk that was taken from the cow that morning for millenia. The risk/reward ratio is definitely not worth it though if you dont plan on drinking the milk within an hour of milking though.