United States raw milk debate prior to symptom onset." Milk collected or stored in unsanitary conditions may harbor a host of disease-causing organisms (pathogens), such as "tuberculosis" (Mycobacterium bovis), the bacteria "Campylobacter" (Campylobacteriosis), "Escherichia" E. coli O157:H7), "Listeria" (Listeriosis), "Salmonella" (Salmonellosis), "Yersinia" (Yersinia enterocolitica), and "Brucella" (Brucellosis). Pasteurization consistently removes all of these pathogens, though they can be reintroduced if the product is handled carelessly. Thus dairy farms that pasteurize their milk can have unsanitary facilities without the attendant outbreaks of disease that would occur if a raw milk dairy kept its herds in similar unsanitary conditions. People with weakened immune systems, such as elderly,
Milk culture is attested to by the numerous expressions embedded in our languages, for example, "the milk of human kindness", the expression "there's no use crying over spilt milk" (which means don't "be unhappy about what cannot be undone"), "don't milk the ram" (this means "to do or attempt something futile") and "Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free?" (which means "why pay for something that you can get for free otherwise"). In Greek mythology, the Milky Way was formed after the trickster god Hermes suckled the infant Heracles at the breast of Hera, the queen of