Mark McAfee, a raw milk producer based in California, has made products that have been deemed unsafe and recalled several times due to bird flu contamination, a problem that that would have been eliminated by pasteurization. The suspect quality of his milk has not stopped an expanding group of raw milk drinkers from continuing to use the product, however, nor prevented Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from reportedly approaching McAfee with an offer to guide the incoming administration's raw milk policy.
According to The Guardian, McAfee said that he had recently been asked by members of Kennedy's transition team to apply for a position advising the department on raw milk policy and standards development. The idea, he told The Guardian, would be to create a "raw milk ordinance" to mirror existing federal standards for pasteurized milk. His appointment would be the latest in a long queue of industry heads being selected by Trump and his allies to run the agencies that regulate their own industries.
