It's All Very Strange

The best milk I've ever had was fresh from a cow. It was wonderfully warm and creamy and tasted heavenly. It was also illegal.
In a perfect example of a government overreacting, you're not allowed to consume or sell raw milk, even though the dangers are miniscule and the benefits could be many.
As Joel Salatin, in the forward to The Raw Milk Revolution by David Gumpert puts it:

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten over the fact that the government arbitrarily determined to make it very difficult for me to become a farmer. That seems un-American, doesn’t it?
Isn’t it curious that at this juncture in our culture’s evolution, we collectively believe Twinkies, Lucky Charms, and Coca-Cola are safe foods, but compost-grown tomatoes and raw milk are not? With legislation moving through Congress demanding that all agricultural practices be “science-based,”...

The inability of people to decide what to put in their own bodies is disturbing at best. And it's just milk! Milk is good for you!
One could be paranoid and muse that all this is simply a tool to keep small milk producers down - for compling with pasturizing regulations is expensive and time-consuming. Harpers published an excellent article about this in their April 2008 issue called "The Revolution will not be Pasteurized" (Pdf link) and it's worth reading too.