The reason milk was diseased was not because it was raw but because of how it was processed. For most of human history, people consumed raw milk with no trouble. It wasn’t until they started putting dairies in the middle of cities (next to distilleries, for example) that the problems arose.
Unpasteurized milk will not make you sick and it does not contain cow feces unless it is externally contaminated. My family has consumed it for 5 years without incident. I would agree that it is important to understand your source.
I am amazed people will drink pasteurized milk. Because farmers know it will pasteurized, it includes all sorts of crap.
The article you reference is propaganda.
I agree, Pete. I also think that many people, millions, probably, are so skeptical of anything tainted by “government” that they are going in the extreme opposite direction.
Look at Food Babe. She has a HUGE following and has been able to pressure corporations like Subway to bow to her will over her pseudo-science. And yet millions believe her over anything scientific. “Scientists work for Monsanto,” is what a friend of mine told me when I mentioned that Food Babe was a fraud.
After lie upon lie upon lie by the government and endless tyranny against citizens by the various alphabet government agencies, I don’t blame people who aren’t vaccinating their kids, or drinking raw milk, or protesting against GMOs. That’s how far our government has fallen in its trustworthiness. People are more willing to trust in shysters and their anti-government rhetoric.
We drank raw milk as kids. One of the best things was the layer of cream that would rise to the surface! We skim it off and make our own butter or use it for ice cream. The only time we got sick was when we ate way too much.
I milked personally for our family from the time I was 9 till I left for college. I didn’t know what store milk tasted like. I did, however, throw the bucket away if the cow took a dump in it. Common sense has always been your friend.
I grew up drinking raw milk. My parents grew up drinking it. I went 11 years of school without missing a day. My dad lived to 82 and my mom died 3 months before her 103rd birthday. I do not remember anyone dying from drinking it.
Agreed! Grew up on a small farm in MN, raised dairy cattle for awhile, drank raw milk, and CREAM, etc. Never an issue. These days, you get a couple of morons getting sick from raw milk, and the alarms ring all over the country.