Maybe eftfnc could get a cow? They've got lovely long eyelashes.

This one lives in a castle: http://www.guernsey-press.com/GP_on_line/scene_archive/2000/cow1.jpg

Ain't she gorgeous,Vanilla:-)

Agro, from the CDC also:
Enteric infections enter the body through the mouth and intestinal tract and are usually spread through contaminated food and water or by contact with vomit or feces. Every year an estimated 76 million cases of foodborne illness and 5,000 associated deaths occur in the United States. Much of this burden could be prevented with better science and prevention tools. Each year in the developing world, diarrheal illness from contaminated food and water causes 2 million deaths in young children. We are working to decrease the burden of bacterial foodborne and diarrheal illness by 50% by the year 2010.

The Enteric Diseases Epidemiology and Laboratory Branches are innovative public health investigative and consultative groups that identifiy causes, sources and solutions for bacterial foodborne and diarrheal infections to prevent the disability and death those diseases cause. Our central values are scientific integrity, rapid response to emergencies, service to states and nations, innovation through informed expertise, and close collaboration between disciplines of epidemiology and microbiology. We are 50 persons organized in teams: outbreak surveillance and response, national surveillance, FoodNet and diarrheal diseases.

Explain to me please, after all this pasteurizing,and homogenizing the above still occurs.

BTW
How many inspections do occur at the farm gate, to isolate diseased animals? Can anyone answer this?
I can remember after each milk pickup the cans were separately tested either at the farm gate or at the factory and not mixed with other farms batches until tests were cleared.

Ever tried to pasteurise and homogenise lettuce? Or chicken? Or eggs?

There are heaps of foods that can transmit disease through contamination, imagine what the rates could be without pasteurisation!

eftfnc, most of the enteric diseases occur following the consumption of leafy vegetables and poorly cooked meat. Neither are amenable to Pasteurization. Milk on the other hand is. It also used to be a major source of enteric bacterial problems before Pasteurization was used, now it's problems are insignificant.

Testing protocols need to be effective at managing the risks. Testing at the farm gate may be effective for some risks, but won't manage post farm-gate risks. For these risks you need to test later. Testing should also be relative to the risk. No point testing for things that carry no risk, or where a post-test practice can eliminate the risk.

Agro, This raw milk thing needs to be looked at as a whole, naturally.

There are too many things not looked at, like what does pasteurization of a food do to the food itself. Why don't we get a choice of quality of food with documented natural nutrition and not the artificial added crap.
Look at what pasteurization takes out what supposed to keep us healthy.
Here is a comic with some added wisdom about the overall picture.
http://www.naturalnews.com/023014.html Then tell me how far this is from the truth, please do not reply with: 'this is happening only in the US.'