They sell raw milk at the Lausanne market on Saturday morning. There is a stand on rue de l'ale . Walking in the direction of Geneva, the stand is on the right hand side.
Are you sure it's raw milk & not fresh milk? It's been a while since I've been at the Lausanne market. But I've never seen non-pasturized milk on sale unless it was straight from the farm.
We have fresh milk at our local store, like TiMow says it come in the churn and is ladled out into your container. The only thing I don't quite understand is that when the milk comes in it is still warm. The milk that isn't sold is put in disposable container and they put a label on it that say (bad translation) "cook before consumption". I'm not really sure if this milk is actually raw and if so why is the milk so warm if it's raw?
I can imagine that in your neck of the woods the raw milk comes straight from the cow, thus the temperature. In my area near Zurich many farmers sell raw milk already cooled through an automated dispenser where you pop money in and the milk comes out. This milk also bears the caution " bring to 70 degrees before consuming".
It seems most pathogens found in milk are killed around that temperature. In the US as far as I know raw milk was banned for human consumption since 1969 when somebody died from a pathogen acquired from drinking it (raw milk).
As Simeon says, it’s straight out of the cow. Often see our little milk collection guy stopping at the farm at around 6am and 6pm to collect then when he’s done his round of collections it’s straight off up to the local laterie.
Fresh pasturised milk on the other hand is sold, strangely under the name of milk drink , in places like Denner, Aldi, Lidl, etc, and is found in the chiller cabinet.
We buy ours straight from the farmer before it goes to the laterie, it's always warm and at CHF1 a litre it's a cool price.. (you do need your own container, trying to run home with it tricking through your fingers might only seem like a good idea if your vodka never froze)..
It will mean a trip to Gruyere, he can aslo sell you meat by the box full, or even a whole animal if you have a big freezer, so much cheaper and nicer than anything you get in the supermarket...
Also, if the raw "bio" milk producing cow have been fed something which has not been classified as Organic? If so, how can Raw milk always be Bio (or even organic)?