the cows tail is oftentimes tied up during milking on small scale farms. the cows ankles are tied up to prevent them from kicking, but youre right-- sometimes cow dung particles get flung into the milk pail. thats not a big deal, since the particles of dirt float and can be skimmed off. they get stuck in the small bubbles at the top. a good milker can pull the pail away when the cow is going to start dancing around.
I wasn't referring to the tail during the milking process, but in general. Obviously you have to secure the tail when you're milking a cow if you dont want to get surprised by a tail in the face while you're down there.
I was saying that you can't keep a cow from spraying feces
on the udder with the tail (or even directly from the source, lol) and since you can't even bathe small pets everyday, you certainly can't give a cow a good wash before every milking, it's a big animal, not an object like I get the sense that people there perceive it as. I don't know who told you that fecal particles float, we're talking particles not pieces.
the reason cow milk is boiled today is because there were low (if any) standards of shipping/transporting the milk to cities, as well as poor milking practices. this was a time when children worked in sweatshops, there were no emergency doors or windows, no breaks for employees, etc. its was all about the robber baron type making a profit with little or no government regulation. disease outbreaks were blamed on the milk (justified or not) and eventually, pasteurization became the norm. the milking process can be sloppy and careless when one knows that it will be sterilized anyway. so... its not that people went to pasteurization because of health. they went that direction for safety regulations.
I know this explanation to why humans boil milk makes sense to you but in my country is has nothing to do with reality. People have been boiling milk here before food started being mass-produced, from when you had to grow and make your own food.
Even today half of the country is countryside territory, it's like stepping into another world, not the way countryside is in America. You want to know how people lived centuries ago, before the industrial era, before any capitalism or communism, then you just take a trip to our countryside, no time machine needed. There are still plenty of isolated people in the mountains who never even had an encounter with the modern world, they aren't interested in learning how people in the cities live, they prefer their old ways, many didn't even learn how to write because they had no use for it, BUT they do know that you should boil milk. They didn't learn to boil milk from the media or from milk companies, it's simply common sense.
My mother grew up in the countryside, she never had a childhood because she rarely had a moment's rest due to the fact that almost all of their food had to be made by the family members themselves. She got up way before the crack of dawn and got to sleep too late into the night. You think that peasants like my mother was, are doing an extra chore like boiling milk just for the hell of it, if milk really was just as good or even better in raw form? We like our rest, we don't do stuff just to make time fly faster, especially when you've got enough work on your hands already.
I'm not interested in studies about milk enzymes, I've read studies that were talking about the benefits of fluoride in your water, I prefer reality. If raw milk was just as healthy or healthier than boiled milk we would have felt it. We are big producers and consumers of all types of milk (cow/sheep/goat/bivoliță) both in the countryside and in the industry. The benefits you might be reaping from drinking raw milk are due to the fact that you're drinking natural milk/real milk instead of factory milk. It's not because it's not boiled, rather it's because of where it comes from.
in many places of the US, raw milk is actually illegal.
I know, I saw it in a Schitts' Creek episode. I thought it was satyre at the beggining of the episode, because why on earth would you make raw milk illegal? But when I looked it up and found out it was real I was in a daze, I even stupidly hit myself on the head, lol, it took me an embarrasingly long time to get out of that stupour.
Sorry about the long reply but I get kind of annoyed when I see America constantly trying to reinvent the wheel by starting all sorts of stupid health trends and unfortunately influencing the rest of the world. Fats=bad, sugars=bad, gluten=bad, salt=bad, everything=bad
BUT raw milk=good. There are some young people in my country who have given up gluten without having any intolerence to it (we haven't yet developed any food intolerances/allergies) but they're giving it up because they've read/heard/watched a lot of your propaganda.
Shouldn't we strive to live by the original pattern of nature? 
