How bad is the dead bacteria in pasteurized milk?
Dead bacteria in pasteurized milk is not healthy but it will not kill you. It is just one more toxin to add to the thousands we are exposed to every day. Any substance which is not a food, that we consume when we eat, may cause some type of harmful effect. When we take in chemicals that are in our environment or when we’re exposed to pesticides, herbicides, or heavy metals, our body has to detoxify them. Any of those are going to cause a problem. What people simply need to understand is why we are pasteurizing milk. The purpose of pasteurizing milk is to kill any undesirable bacteria and organisms that are in the milk. Now, if there weren’t any undesirable organisms in the milk (clean milk from grass fed, disease free cows) but you decide to pasteurize it anyway, you will kill all the enzymes, denature many of the proteins, and cause some damage to the milk. On the other hand, if you’re pasteurizing the milk because of the overcrowding of the animals that are being fed unnatural grains
