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Might investigate which cheeses aren’t pasteurized. Figure any small snack that can satiate my appetite will be a useful tool.

While one could argue that digestion is the beginning of metabolism, and that may be valid (though chewing is the beginning of digestion, and I don't think anyone would conflate chewing and metabolism), but I'm going to call it digestion because that's the part of metabolism where the implication of leaving digestive enzymes and probiotic bacteria in the milk comes into play.

Essentially, the milk spoils faster and becomes potentially hazardous as it is more easily infected with harmful bacteria.

Pasteurization is a centuries-old process (maybe almost a millennium by some accounts) that long-predates antibiotics and modern medicines that can get you out of a potentially-fatal situation should you get a bacterial infection. People have been heat-preserving things forever because, at the end of the day, being able to consume the macronutrients for days/weeks/months after harvesting was more important than gleaning out that slight edge of probiotic health from consuming raw foods. Canning notoriously strips foods of their micronutrients as well, but no one seems to be on an anti-canning binge because it's such an effective preservation method.

At the same time, with modern refrigeration techniques and the expedience of our supply chain, there's no reason we can't have fresh veggies year round. The same should go for milk - raw milk should be legal and sold in stores. Big Ag/Big Food like pasteurized milk because it lasts longer, but there is an obvious market for raw milk.

All that said - my main point that may have gotten a little muddled is: pasteurization isn't the boogeyman many try to make it out to be. It came on the scene long before there were major overpowered regulatory bodies to require it, and it stayed on the scene because it fucking worked. Any cons were outweighed by the overwhelming pros, not the least of which is the fact that it keeps the lactose-intolerant niggers from consuming one of the most nutritiously-valuable (and well balanced) foods in the world.