No, Sanitizing Cow Burps Won’t Sour Your Milk: Lara Williams

It perhaps shouldn’t have been a surprise when news of a project to tackle methane emissions by the dairy industry led to a wave of misinformation and calls to boycott butter.

After all, this is a world where the incoming US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., considers fluoride – a mineral credited with protecting millions of children from the dangers of bad teeth – a neurotoxin and says raw milk – which may contain pathogens including H5N1, otherwise known as bird flu – has been unfairly kept from Americans. And yet, after years of research, safety trials and usage ...