Debating Raw Milk: Bodily autonomy, risk and public health -with Dr Vinay Prasad

"There's some risk that you will get some sickness from raw milk, but it's not 80%. It's 7 in a 100000. It's a very low risk."

"Now that risk is probably on par with all sorts of risks we allow people to take every single day. And to be honest, if I had to have choose between a glass of raw milk and a Twinkie, I'll probably drink the glass of raw milk."

"It's probably healthier than the Twinkie, the things that we do sell that cause chronic disease. So I think to Robert f Kennedy's point is he's a believer in body autonomy. And the other thing, Meghan, is I'll point out, he's both a skeptic of vaccine mandates, and he believes in a woman's right to choose. So he's rather consistent on body autonomy in a way many others are not."

"He thinks that the same body autonomy extends to raw milk. That if you want, you can buy it. But no one's gonna come and force you to drink raw milk if you don't want it. I'm not gonna drink raw milk because I don't drink milk. But he's saying if you wanna do it, why not do it?"

"And the governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, a Democrat, agrees with him. And he has a large constituency of Colorado hippies, liberal hippies who want to have raw milk."

"So I think on the issue of raw milk, that's not a hill to die on. If I was in charge of it, I would remove the restriction on selling raw milk. If people can bungee jump, they should be able to drink raw milk if they want."