Raw Milk

[zzGypsy]

I just read an article that made some ridiculous claims. I don't know if you ladies & guys have read it, too, <snip>

, the Food and Drug Administration and nearly every other public health organization do not endorse consuming raw milk.
But to buy this product and feed it to your children? Might as well lock them in your car on a 100 degree day while you stop by the casino to try and win the jackpot.

laws are also written for LOTS of reasons that have nothing to do with keeping us safe. a great many laws are passed to serve someone's agenda.

public health organizations have endorsed all sorts of things which have subsequently turned out to be wrong or damaging to your health.

and to compare the (small percentage risk of illness from raw milk) to the (certain harm and probable death from being locked in a car on a 100 degree day)+(implication that you think you're actualy going to win the lotto and are stupid enough to risk your children to gamble on it) is so outrageously overstated and inflamatory that it makes me disregard any possible points made by the rest of the article.

they did get one thing right... apparent rise of the frequency of an illness is *often* caused by improved reporting and collection of data. what they didn't tell you about that is that the ACTUAL incidence may be going DOWN even when reporting is going up. for instance, why is Autism SO much more prevalent today than 100 years ago? it may be that there is more actual autism or it may not be, but the CHANGE in stats is meaningless because 1) reporting criteria has changed and 2) diagnosing criteria has changed.

it could be that the illnesses are down 50% but the liklihood of an illness being reporting is up 500%, making the number of illnesses LOOK like they're on the rise, when actual illnesses are actually decreasing. at any rate, the stats they're using will *not* tell you what they say it does. I don't know what the real numbers are, but what they're telling you is *not* an accurate representation of the facts, and the spin they put on it is not honest.

but I will say the site is glossy, my curiosity is piqued as to who funds it.

 

[ChicksterJo]

Yes, the website is definitely one-sided. The person who wrote that piece was an undersecretary for the USDA. It was only helpful because of the State Laws tab, otherwise reading that article turned me off to the rest of the website.

 

[fultzie]

OH MAN, i so miss my raw milk , it is loaded with sooo much goodness ,so good for you..i was getting some from my amish friend , but he got spooked and stoped selling it ..i can not hardly drink store bought milk ,,they altra pasteurize it to death and in the end you just have something that looks like milk and the emzimes and goodness dead..cows that get to free range on good pastures .raw milk is good for cla.and the butter you get will be rich in cla..but todays milk . the altra pasteurized kills most to all the good things you should be getting ..think aout it ..if raw milk was sooo bad ..how in the world did we ever make it out of the 19 century? well i could go on and on but ...lol hope this helps some !

 

[zzGypsy]

OH MAN, i so miss my raw milk , it is loaded with sooo much goodness ,so good for you..i was getting some from my amish friend , but he got spooked and stoped selling it

yep, spooked... that's part of the plan. that's *why* they make examples of people.

well i could go on and on but ...lol hope this helps some !

if you want your milk back, and you really want to help, contact your lawmakers... senators, representatives, state and federal, and local law makers, councilmen, your state governor... make your desires known. email, write, call. join an activist group on the subject. find out the laws that apply in your area and work to change them if you don't like them.

no one is going to fix this but us... we CARE about this subject and if we don't act, who will?

 

[oldrooster]

Both of my parents where farm kids and where from large families (dad was the youngest of 9 kids mom was next to last of 8 kids) and both grew up on raw cows milk no problems with anyone in their homes drinking it. mom's family drank 80-90% of it raw (BTW they didn't have electricity until my mom was 11 because it didn't come out to their farm till then so they had an icebox and that didn't really stay too cool in summer) dad's was 100% because they lived on a dairy farm, unlike one of the earlier posts saying the young cows should be bottle fed is not really necessary their cows weren't bottle fed unless the mama cow refused to acknowledge the calf which sometimes happens and if one cow was bad about disowning calves she was culled and either sold or sent to the slaughter house for meat for the family. so just make sure you can trust the source, as some posted earlier make sure the farm is handling it in a sanitary fashion and go to it.

 

[ChicksterJo]

Just got back in Illinois and I am planning on buying some raw milk from a farmer...The good part is that we will be able to take a tour of their farm and see the cows before we buy the milk.

 

[wackyChris16]

I love raw milk whenever I can get it.

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

Ok, I had raw milk some as a kid.. but don't remember it really tasting different. We had a Holstein cow and didn't milk her except for the time she lost her calf. Anyhoo- My friend brought me a huge jar of milk from his Gurnsey cow, and a jar of milk from his goat. (forget the breed.. started with an "A").

Me and my 8 yr old daughter just did a taste test:

First the goats milk... LOVE LOVE LOVE! The 8 yr old chugged it and said, "We GOTTA get a goat." LOL.

The cows milk... Ehh.. Not so much. It has a rusty, metal, stale kinda taste to it. Is this normal? Am I just not used to it?

And do different cows milk taste different? Like a Holstein or Jersey etc, would there be some variation in taste? I thought it would be a little thicker, more of a milky taste.

I never thought I'd say this but.... we might be goat people.

 

[Amyable]

QuackerJack, milk from different breeds do vary in taste. Jerseys have a higher fat content in their milk, so their milk has more cream. A big factor is the cows diet. It really needs to be a grass-based diet if you're intending to drink the milk raw. I notice that in the spring, especially when the dandelions are blooming, the milk we get is yellower, maybe a little richer in taste too. Maybe the metal taste in your friends' milk was from the container? It shouldn't taste like that. Some people do need a little time to adjust to full-flavored milk when all they've known is blechy store milk.

Good for you, goats milk is actually a bit healthier than cows milk, at least its easier to digest. I've yet to find goat milk I could drink on a regular basis. I wonder what breed your friend has?

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

QuackerJack, milk from different breeds do vary in taste. Jerseys have a higher fat content in their milk, so their milk has more cream. A big factor is the cows diet. It really needs to be a grass-based diet if you're intending to drink the milk raw. I notice that in the spring, especially when the dandelions are blooming, the milk we get is yellower, maybe a little richer in taste too. Maybe the metal taste in your friends' milk was from the container? It shouldn't taste like that. Some people do need a little time to adjust to full-flavored milk when all they've known is blechy store milk.

Good for you, goats milk is actually a bit healthier than cows milk, at least its easier to digest. I've yet to find goat milk I could drink on a regular basis. I wonder what breed your friend has?

Thanks Amyable. Ya know I'm sitting here thinking about it.. (and trying to get the metal after taste out of my mouth...) and I'm wondering if they milked the cow into a metal container and then transferred it into this glass jar. Or maybe it's just me. There was a lot of cream on top. The milk was very white though. I was a little disappointed in the taste. Even my 8 yr old was like, "This is just awful." And she likes EVERYTHING I give her. Oh well.. I'll try it again some day from a different source and see if there's a difference. I the mean time.. I'm gonna get the name of that goat breed!! LOVE!