Opinion: Raw milk can be safe — but it depends on something in short supply

When H5N1 avian flu was detected in commercial raw milk samples from a dairy called Raw Farm in California in December, the company released a press statement: “There are no illnesses associated with H5N1 in our products, but rather this is a political issue.”

To critics of raw milk — and of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., potential Health and Human Services secretary and evangelist of the beverage — the discovery of H5N1 was a sign that it should be banned. But perhaps the discovery means that the checks in our public health systems are working.

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