raw milk...

[mylittlezoo]

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Again!!! Flaming and baiting.....Against the rules!!!! Tisk tisk!! If you have a question...just ask!

 

[swtamour]

I like drinking raw milk but what happens when I get pregnant? Have to stop? What have you guys done?

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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If you are comfortable with your source of milk, you have no reason to worry about drinking it.
In fact, you will pass on the benefits to your baby, as you will be drinking a milk that is actually nourishing, and full of good things like real Vitamin D.
Again, 90% or more of the problems that we have seen with milk in the last 100 years, are just a result of industrialization.

 

[mrbstephens]

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

For those of you curious as to why so many of us will go to great leangths to abotain Real Milk, here are a few quotes and a good link that may help.

The source of most commercial milk is the modern Holstein,* bred to produce huge quantities of milk--three times as much as the old-fashioned cow. She needs special feed and antibiotics to keep her well. Her milk contains high levels of growth hormone from her pituitary gland, even when she is spared the indignities of genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone to push her to the udder limits of milk production.

Real feed for cows is green grass in Spring, Summer and Fall; stored dry hay, silage, hay and root vegetables in Winter. It is not soy meal, cottonseed meal or other commercial feeds, nor is it bakery waste, chicken manure or citrus peel cake, laced with pesticides. Vital nutrients like vitamins A and D, and Price's "Activator X" (a fat-soluble catalyst that promotes optimum mineral assimilation, now believed to be vitamin K2) are greatest in milk from cows eating green grass, especially rapidly growing green grass in the spring and fall. Vitamins A and D are greatly diminished, and Activator X disappears, when milk cows are fed commercial feed. Soy meal has the wrong protein profile for the dairy cow, resulting in a short burst of high milk production followed by premature death. Most milk (even most milk labeled "organic") comes from dairy cows that are kept in confinement their entire lives and never see green grass!

Powdered skim milk, a source of dangerous oxidized cholesterol and neurotoxic amino acids, is added to 1% and 2% milk. Low-fat yogurts and sour creams contain mucopolysaccharide slime to give them body. Pale butter from hay-fed cows contains colorings to make it look like vitamin-rich butter from grass-fed cows. Bioengineered enzymes are used in large-scale cheese production. Many mass produced cheeses contain additives and colorings and imitation cheese products contain vegetable oils.

Pasteurization destroys enzymes, diminishes vitamin content, denatures fragile milk proteins, destroys vitamins C, B12 and B6, kills beneficial bacteria, promotes pathogens and is associated with allergies, increased tooth decay, colic in infants, growth problems in children, osteoporosis, arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Calves fed pasteurized milk do poorly and many die before maturity. Raw milk sours naturally but pasteurized milk turns putrid; processors must remove slime and pus from pasteurized milk by a process of centrifugal clarification. Inspection of dairy herds for disease is not required for pasteurized milk. Pasteurization was instituted in the 1920s to combat TB, infant diarrhea, undulant fever and other diseases caused by poor animal nutrition and dirty production methods. But times have changed and modern stainless steel tanks, milking machines, refrigerated trucks and inspection methods make pasteurization absolutely unnecessary for public protection. And pasteurization does not always kill the bacteria for Johne’s disease suspected of causing Crohn's disease in humans with which most confinement cows are infected. Much commercial milk is now ultra-pasteurized to get rid of heat-resistant bacteria and give it a longer shelf life. Ultra-pasteurization is a violent process that takes milk from a chilled temperature to above the boiling point in less than two seconds. Clean raw milk from certified healthy cows is available commercially in several states and may be bought directly from the farm in many more. (Sources are listed on www.realmilk.com.)

www.realmilk.com
The Untold Story of Milk, by Ron Schmid ( can be found on Amazon)​

 

[Sallyschickens]

Info on raw milk here: http://www.sufficientself.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3490 "Big brown horse" is me on sufficient self.

It is legal in WA state to buy raw milk. I get raw jersey milk from a reputable LOCAL dairy. It feels good to support small, local businesses.

And yes I would drink it when I was preggos just like my mom and just like her mom did. We all drink it.

 

[Sallyschickens]

WOOT to you PaulaJoAnne

 

[Gonzo]

I found somewhere nearby!

willow hills farms!

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

gonzo&hispeeps :

I found somewhere nearby!

willow hills farms!

 

[Wynette]

Not sure if anyone posted this or not, but this website is helpful:

http://www.realmilk.com/whichchoose.html