"Middle Easterners drank goat milk...it's not as mucus forming"
Goat milk and goat cheese is good stuff. And you are right about the 'mucus forming'. I like milk and drink it - a couple of glasses some days. I do not have a mucus problem. I know some folks do - my granddaughter did, but with the raw whole milk we have now she no longer has a problem. The raw, whole milk we drink is from a herd that is about as organic as it can get. No meds of any kind. Fed grass or hay, special sea salt (RealSalt), kelp, diatomasous earth, potassium chloride, coconut oil, hydrogen peroxide in their drinking water and maybe a few other things I have forgotten. It is all offered to them 'free choice'. Other than what is available 'free choice' to folks like us, the farmer's customer is a company that makes cheese.
I have a five gallon container that I use when I go get the milk, every 2 or 3 weeks. I wash the empty jug, rinse it well with water, than put about half a cup of concentrated (50%)hydrogen peroxide in it to keep it sterile. I dump the peroxide out just before filling it with the fresh milk. The milk keeps really well. I have some now that is 3 1/2 weeks old and it still tastes and smells fresh. Unlike pasteurized, homogenized milk, when it sours it is still great for cooking.
Yesterday we made yogurt out of this weeks fresh supply. I do not like store bought yogurt, but this is really good! This morning we made ice cream, part yogurt, part fresh milk, honey for sweetener, and our own free range chicken eggs. Mmmm! Good stuff! And by the way, we do not 'cook' the ice cream mix before we freeze it. That way we get all of the good, wholesome, healthy stuff out of the milk and eggs - everything 'raw'.
excellent post!