The North Carolina legislature is owned by the OCGFC. And since they run the medical and pharmaceutical wealth transfer scheme that depends on them making you sick, they really don’t want you drinking raw milk unless it’s been damaged by heat (pasteurization started with a lie). But the indemnity for pesticide manufacturers is going too far, and since they’re spending significant money and expending political assets, they know they’re liable for the harms caused by their products. The funny part is they’ll violate the law and pay a bunch of fines which will be a minor item on the balance sheet compared to all the money they’ll rake in.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/north_carolina/article_d6e01be4-b605-43d4-822b-8ba61ae21e7a.html
By David Beasley
(The Center Square) – Banning the direct sale of raw milk to the public for animal consumption is included in legislation approved a committee in the North Carolina Senate on Wednesday.
The North Carolina Farm Act of 2025, known also as Senate Bill 639, also adds new protections for pesticide companies against lawsuits. The Rules Committee was the final stop before a full floor vote.
SB369 would only allow people who are part of a “herd share” – part ownership in a farm or animals – to obtain raw milk.
Farmers in North Carolina are already banned from selling unpasteurized milk for human consumption, but nonhuman sales are allowed. The new legislation would ban nonhuman sales as well over concerns that bird flu could be transmitted from cows to milk and from then from pets to their owners.
“Pets that have consumed raw milk – especially those that encounter farm animals, increase the possibility of H5N1 virus transmission into our food supply,” Sen. Brent Jackson, R-Sampson, told the committee. “We know that pasteurization cleanses the milk.”
Jackson and Sens. Norman Sanderson, R-Pamlico, and Lisa Barnes, R-Nash, are primary sponsors.
Cameron Dawson, legislative affairs director with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, praised the proposed restrictions on the sale of raw milk for animal consumption.
“The ability of highly pathogenic avian influenza to contaminate raw milk has only increased that unpasteurized milk poses to North Carolinians and their pets,” Dawson told legislators. “Contaminated raw milk intended for pets has been linked to multiple animal deaths. It continues to pose a threat if consumed by humans.”
It’s a “poorly kept secret” that people have purchased raw milk in North Carolina that is labelled as not for human consumption and consumed it themselves, Dawson said.
But Hubert Karreman, a dairy farmer and veterinarian, told senators the danger of raw milk is exaggerated. He provides raw milk to farmers for orphan calves and other livestock.
“Unprocessed milk is an absolute vital necessity for wildlife and domesticated livestock,” he said. “Pasteurized milk simply does not contribute to vital health as does unprocessed milk.”
Bird flu is transmitted through the respiratory tract, not by ingestion, he told the senators.
The provision of the bill on lawsuits against pesticide manufacturers says that the companies can only be held liable if “knew or should have known” that the product label required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was not supported by scientific evidence.