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Posted on 11/11/2006 6:42:26 AM PST by CitadelArmyJag
The Raw Milk Wars Heat Up in Ohio
The state is aggressively pursuing farmers who make unpasteurized milk available to consumers. Will a Democratic governor declare a cease-fire?
Going Underground So intense is ODA's campaign against raw milk, the agency earlier this year even sent a written warning to Organic Pastures Dairy, the Fresno, Calif., dairy that tangled with California agriculture officials—against selling raw milk via mail order to Ohio residents. ODA's spokesperson readily acknowledges that it has no jurisdiction in California.
Mark McAfee, president of Organic Pastures, replied to the agency that the FDA doesn't prohibit interstate sales of his raw milk, since it's labeled as pet food, and then added this needle, "Please understand that there are literally thousands of people drinking raw milk in Ohio in the underground markets…this is only getting bigger and bigger."
As McAfee suggests, the ODA, along with other states, appears to be trying to hold back a tidal wave of demand. Food and agriculture officials are arguing that raw milk is dangerous, but too many consumers feel differently, seeing raw milk as a highly nutritious food capable of building their children's immune systems and relieving symptoms of ailments from asthma to autism.
New Regime When consumers want something so badly, they will pay enough that farmers will take the risk of supplying them with it, and in that sense, the comparison made to heroin and crack holds true.
One glimmer of hope for Ohio's enterprising dairies is Tuesday's election, which saw a Democrat, Ted Strickland, voted in as governor. According to Cox, this means that ODA's raw milk policy will almost certainly be replaced come early next year. It could also give impetus to stalled Ohio legislation that would allow farmer-to-consumer distribution of raw milk, such as via herd-sharing arrangements.
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How dare the government step in and tell a farmer that it is illegal to drink the milk from his own cow.
It all comes in from their inability to tax and make a buck off it.
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Help me to understand this. What is wrong with pasteurizing milk?
I grew up on a farm and we actually owned our very own pasteurizer. You could pasteurize a gallon of milk at a time. When the time came that we no longer had our own milk cows, we bought raw milk from the local dairy and pasturized it.
Big Brother is watching out for you!
"..In May, 1943, Edsel Bryant Ford, son of auto magnate Henry Ford, died at the age of 49 in Detroit, of what some claimed was a broken heart. Biology, however, decreed that Ford died of undulant fever, apparently brought on by drinking unpasteurized milk from the Ford dairy herd, at the behest of his father's mistaken belief that all things natural must be good.
Sixty years later, raw, unpasteurized milk is gaining in popularity for many of the same reasons as the broader organic and natural foods movement: some people think it's healthier, some people think it tastes better, and for some people it's part of their religion. And some people get sick..."
"It all comes in from their inability to tax and make a buck off it."
BINGO!
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Not money. The love of it.
Down with Louis Pasteur!!
What's a plague or two among friends!!
Germs don't exist!!
"What is wrong with pasteurizing milk?"
Maybe pasteurizing destroys nutrients?
Is it proven to destroy nutrients? Or is this just another way to make a buck? We KNOW it destroys germs.
Well then we'd better start pasteurizing spinach. A lot of people got sick from it.
Why couldn't they tax it?
It's a sale like any other sale.
Whether it's smart to drink raw milk is a different issue, and the state has a legitimate interest in ensuring that food is safe, but I don't see the tax angle is being the reason for regulating it.
I am glad to help explain, but I need to run so this will be brief. Raw milk is a live food that is much more nutritious than pasteurized milk. Pasteurizing the milk, in many ways, destroys it. Additionally, w/ raw milk I can (and do) make yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese, whey, cream cheese, and many other things.
“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.” www.realmilk.com
We already do, it's called cooking it.
How weird is it that it's easier to buy crack than raw milk?
Cows, and especially goats, are so easy to raise and the milk is usually much more than a single family can use.
If every person that had a few acres raised goats, milk prices would drop and the big dairy farmers would be out of business.
Dairy farmers have a monopoly, so to speak, that is assisted by the USDA.
“Down with Louis Pasteur!! What's a plague or two among friends!! Germs don't exist!!”
Please educate yourself: http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/biographies/louis_pasteur.htm
Pasteur himself acknowledged that pasteurization harmed the quality of the milk and was not a permanent solution.
All of those things maybe true, but do not forget the reason why pasteurization started in the first place. People were dying from bacterial infections. If you get sick or die from ingesting raw milk are you or your heirs going to sue the farmer for selling you raw milk?
As long as the cow is Brucellosis tested often, and most states have been Brucellosis free for a while, the milk should be fine, as far as I know. Raw milk is certainly tastier with all it's butter fat. I used to drink it occasianally as a child and my husband grew up on it.
As the profits increase, the raw milk pushers will be fighting for turf. There will be blood in the streets as milk gangs fight over market share.
We need a war on milk to stop people from harming themselves and keep the milk gangs from spreading.
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