Raw milk, and raw emotion, go to court
May 31, 2012
MINNEAPOLIS ― Melinda Olson has given her 12-year-old son raw milk for years. When he walked away virtually unscathed from a serious bike accident last year, she credited his healthy diet of raw milk dairy products.Matthew Caldwell fed his 2-year-old son, Owen, raw milk in the spring of 2010. The boy was hospitalized for 13 days, victim of an E. coli 0157:H7 outbreak traced to raw milk producer Mike Hartmann.The two parents’ stories are bookends to a debate that is on high boil in Minnesota. One