• Kale Hyder, a 23-year-old Morgan Stanley analyst, has shifted away from plant-based milk and meat replicas to whole foods, including sirloin, raw butter, grass-fed raw milk cottage cheese, and raw milk.
• Raw milk has become increasingly popular in the past few years, as people seek to regain control over their food and break with convention.
• Raw milk is illegal to sell for human consumption in most states, but there are loopholes and legal gray areas that allow people to access it.
• The appeal of raw milk is twofold: it represents a time before everything got screwed up, and it’s a challenge and a way of raging against the machine.
• The raw milk movement has been bolstered by the likes of Joshua Rainer, who moved from California to Colorado to become a farmhand, and Connor, who created the website GetRawMilk.
• The latest flashpoint in the raw milk wars is Amos Miller Organic Farm, which is being sued for $305,000 by the federal government.
Published January 11, 2023. Visit The Free Press to read Suzy Weiss’s original post.