Indeed, this news story seams to miss the important point that the probiotic yoghurts being marketed as health products are not raw milk products.The organic farmer in the story seems to be conflating "natural" and "raw" with "probiotic". It's possible that he is using the known fact that breast feeding human infants promotes the establishment of probiotic species of bacteria, like Bifidobacterium, in the human gut microflora. It seems that he is transferring this idea over to raw bovine milk, while forgetting the fact that cow's milk can easily be contaminated with the enteric pathogens listed in Dr. Powell's post.Thanks for point out this misleading and inaccurate news story.

People spend large amounts of money on probiotics in order to stabilize intestinal flora and promote healty regularity.Over the past couple of months I've been drinking raw milk, using raw cream for desserts, as well as raw butter and raw kefir.All the products are delicious and the milk itself supports normal digestion. I am not a chemist, nor am I sure whether it is so because of the live enzymes or natural probiotic cultures.Either way, it normalizes digestion through food (milk) intake alone and without (probiotic) supplementation.