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I think it's a guideline in England that you don't drink unpasteurised milk, but it's a law in Scotland. If I were pregnant or had an immune difficiency I'd pasteurise it before I drank it. But I'm a hardy wench (having grown up on a diary farm) where I drank lots of unpasteurised and am really chuffed I enjoy it straight from the cow again. It tastes so much better.

Lucky you! But I still don't think it's allowed to just buy your milk from the farmer - unless they have a proper bottling plant etc, and pay a lot of money to the H&S authorities...

In Germany, I used to buy my milk in my own container at a small farmer's who only had three cows - a proper, oldfashioned, mixed farm. They milked by hand and didn't even have a cooling system.

Mind you, that was 10 years ago. I suppose that "progress" has overtaken them, too.

I've been buying my long life milk from Lidl for about 2 years now. It has only just gone up in price recently from 59c a litre, which it was for about 2 years, to 62c a litre!

Unless the rules have changed in the last year or so selling Raw Milk is quite legal here in the UK as long as it is labelled as RAW Milk, and as long as your premises are licensed by the local authority to sell dairy product of course.