# Why are dairy products hard on the colon?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 23, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-dairy-products-hard-on-the-colon/369961 "2006-08-23T23:17:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-dairy-products-hard-on-the-colon/369961/21 "2006-08-26T18:21:42Z")

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As the child of someone who worked in the dairy business, both on the wholesale end (as a farmer) and the retail end (store owner), I can tell you that this debate about raw milk and pasteurized milk is not new and has been going on for decades.

My father consumed mostly raw milk as a kid because his parents didn’t bother to pasteurize it because they didn’t feel like it. When my dad married my mom, she bought a pasteurizing machine for her own use.

When they left farming and opened up a store, my father would occasionally bring home raw milk, but it wasn’t too popular with us. Mainly because we didn’t like the way it looked. I think we liked homogenization more than pasteurization. One time when some raw milk went bad, it went really bad and gave off a ghastly smell.

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