There Are No Cows in Louis Pasteur's Crypt
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- Louis Pasteur is often mistakenly credited with introducing milk pasteurization, but it was actually Frans von Soxhlet in 1886 who first suggested pasteurizing milk.
- Pasteur's work focused on wine and beer, where he demonstrated that heat treatment could prevent spoilage by killing microbes.
- Pasteur discovered molecular dissymmetry in tartaric acid crystals, leading to foundational insights in chemistry, later expanded by Jacobus van’t Hoff.
- Pasteur's contributions included vaccines for rabies, anthrax, and chicken cholera, as well as solving silkworm diseases.
- Raw milk can transmit diseases like typhoid, tuberculosis, and E. coli infections, while pasteurization effectively eliminates harmful bacteria.
- Despite claims by raw milk advocates, there is no evidence that pasteurization significantly reduces milk's nutritional value.
- RFK Jr.'s claims about raw milk's health benefits and FDA suppression are unsupported by scientific evidence.