Posted on 04/07/2014 10:45:55 AM PDT by Nelson Hultberg
Government: Demands that every school teaches evolution and natural selection.
Government: Demands that every tax payer pays out the nose to protect other people from their own stupidity and taking risks...
Comrade, we will tell you what is safe to eat, and you will like it.
The Alta Dena dairy in Southern California was fighting this battle when I lived there in the 80s.
But maybe you know that already, because one of its customers was Dr. Francis Pottenger.
http://www.realmilk.com/commentary/vendetta-against-alta-dena-dairy/
We have had the same battle in WI.
Funny, we have states legalizing pot which is known to cause cancer but its “natural” so must be ok. But natural milk? Nope can’t have that!
If you make cheese raw is the only was to go.
“The distribution of raw milk has been banned in the U.S. since inception of the pasteurization laws in the 1920s”
Actually, the FDA ban only applies to interstate transportation of unpasteurized milk.
Interested in a study showing this.
While accurate, this statement can reasonably be considered an attempt to gloss over the truth of the history by implying that the health problems with raw milk were of the "tummy upset" variety.
In actual fact, raw milk was a major method of transmission of such lethal illnesses as tuberculosis, diphtheria, severe streptococcal infections, typhoid fever, and other foodborne illnesses.
Whether pasteurization is still necessary is perhaps open to debate, but let's not ignore its necessity 100 years ago.
I am all for raw milk to be available on the market.
But this is a piece of another bovine product propaganda piece.
Real milk from properly grazed specialized cows is amazingly good.
Oddly enough, they should ask those who produce raw milk to create their own industry inspection regime and standards, much stricter than for normal milk production. They would likely be thrilled and go to great lengths in exchange for conducting their business legally.
When such a situation is set up, the quality standards are sky-high, with zero tolerance for any member who doesn’t strictly follow the rules. So it works much better than government rules.
I don’t want to get into the argument on Raw vs. Pasteurized.
However, I’m old enough to remember back in the day when a great uncle of mine had a prize winning dairy in Dallas county. One of the great childhood memories I have is drinking a glass of milk that came right from the milking barn.
I still drink at least a gallon of milk a week, but the stuff we drink today for healthy reasons simply doesn’t have the flavor. It’s a shame that more folks never had the chance to savor raw milk.
The problem with raw milk isn’t salmonella, it’s tuberculosis.
During WWII my family kept a couple of cows. I remember, as a child, screening the bits of dirt and cowshit from the milk through a cloth funnel; but we drank the unpasteurized milk with no problem. It was probably better for us than the pasturized milk bought from a store.
However, one tubercular cow can infect the mixed milk from a dairy herd of a hundred or more cows. This milk could infect thousands, and did. City children during the winter, low in vitamin D with impaired immune systems, were particularly affected. Tuberculosis (“the great white plague”) was one of the leading causes of death in the United States in the early twentieth century. Pasteurization, more that the antibiotics which came later, reversed this. Only now, with TB largely controlled, there is this movement against Pasteurization because people aren’t losing friends, relatives and loved-ones to this disease. Both my grandfather and father died from TB, as did one of my first girl friends during the early 1950s.
By the way, tuberculosis is coming back in a more antibiotic-resistant and virulent form.
I get my raw milk every 2 weeks from a dairy in Santa Fe, Texas. It is awesome. I wish all of you could taste the homemade butter and feel the wonderful effects of the milk. The cows milk is checked once a month by the state inspector. It has always had a more than good rating.
Raw milk is sooooooooooooo good. Love the stuff!
Opinion - Anybody who drinks skim, 1% or 2%, is drinking white water.
” Tuberculosis (“the great white plague”) was one of the leading causes of death in the United States in the early twentieth century. “
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My father died of TB in 1938. We were 5 and 2. I still have a positive reaction with the tine test even though my exposure was 75 years ago.
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