Prohibition Spawns Raw Milk Speakeasies

I’ve been nearly too busy to post this, which would be a shame since I have a particular affinity for this site.

Needless to say, this post on the ABA Journal’s page is irresistible – Somewhat Illegal Substance: Raw Milk

The post, which links back to the original article in the New York Times, focuses on an “unlikely brand of law-breakers,” raw milk seeking parents who are forming clandestine clubs to circumvent RM prohibition.

Here’s a notable graph:

Proponents, who are a varied group, not only “trust the traditional food chain more than the industrial one,” but are willing to spend significantly more for raw milk, says Nina Planck, the author of Real Food: What to Eat and Why. “You cannot categorize the people who are drinking raw milk,” she says. “They are people from the blue states and red states, farmers and yuppies and Birkenstock-wearers.”