Proposed State Law Would Ban Raw Milk | JP
Proposed legislation in North Carolina would outlaw the sale of raw milk.
Senate Bill 639, also called the North Carolina Farm Act of 2025, has a provision to ban raw milk.
“Currently, unpasteurized milk can only be sold for pet consumption,” WFAE reports.
“But state Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, a longtime critic of raw milk, says it’s even more dangerous now because it may contain bird flu, giving the virus more opportunities to mutate and transmit among people,” the outlet added.
The North Carolina Farm Act of 2025 aims to ban the sale of raw milk and give Bayer immunity from any glyphosate litigation.
Steve Troxler, commissioner to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) mentioned “I think the time is now to… pic.twitter.com/OUAN6rIgmg
— The Regenaissance (@_Regenaissance) May 3, 2025
Per WFAE:
“Now we’ve got E. coli, salmonella, listeria and high-path avian influenza that can be present. So it is time to make sure that people are drinking pasteurized milk, and we have pasteurized milk for a reason,” he said.
The farm act has passed one Senate committee but must be approved by three more before reaching the Senate floor.
The North Carolina Senate wants to ban grass-fed, raw milk in our state. Every sponsor is Republican, and the bill is expected to pass easily. Per the usual, the Republican Party is screwing over its constituents.
Call your legislators. Tell them to amend the bill in committee. pic.twitter.com/7aRqynoEIc
— Jolly Roger (@Totally_Brandon) May 2, 2025
NC farm bill: we are banning raw milk because it’s dangerous to people’s health
(It isn’t)
Also NC farm bill: we are making harder to sue pesticide companies when their products make people sick
Interesting. Almost like it’s about business interest not what’s good for people
— Sir Thom the Bomb (@SirThomthegood) May 2, 2025
WRAL reports:
In the face of that uncertainty, state lawmakers are pushing for a number of changes to laws related to farming — rolling back environmental regulations, pushing for new tax breaks and targeting some other industries seen as competing with more established farming interests. The most high-profile is the annual Farm Act, Senate Bill 639.
That bill or others also being debated this week would ban raw milk, enact stricter rules for lab-grown meat, make it harder for solar companies to expand onto farmland, make it harder for people to sue pesticide companies for making them sick, and ban certain foreign companies including China from buying up farmland inside the state.
Because of the bird flu threat, the new Farm Act proposes banning raw milk. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler is pushing for the change, saying raw milk has always been dangerous for people to drink but needs to finally be banned now because of the evidence that it transmits bird flu.
Raw milk is popular among some conservative social media influencers and politicians, however — including Trump’s top health official Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and Troxler acknowledged to his fellow Republicans in the legislature this week that the proposed ban “could be pretty controversial” even if it would protect public health.
Troxler said North Carolina has long allowed people to buy raw milk “with a wink” by allowing it be sold as pet food. But continuing those sales, he said, will only expose more and more people to bird flu in addition to diseases like e-coli, salmonella and listeria that are also found in raw milk, since it’s not pasteurized.
“We’ve been playing Russian Roulette with one bullet in the chamber, with these other pathogens,” Troxler said Tuesday. “But when you add [bird flu] into the mix, we put two more bullets into that chamber.”
But no one from the public spoke out either for or against any of the 20 different sections of the annual Farm Act, including the proposed raw milk ban, when it passed the Senate’s agriculture committee on Wednesday.
Read Senate Bill 639 HERE.
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