Posted on 08/07/2007 9:32:05 AM PDT by BGHater
WOW ! You didn't know if you were coming or going, did ya?
Nam Vet
Check the statistics if you don’t believe me.
He’s not good at math or science.
Too bad.
G'bye.
We used to drink raw cow and goat milk but I knew the people who personally knew the cows and goats. I wouldn’t drink it unless there was that degree of connection. My oldest drank breast milk and the raw goats milk until he was two. Of course, he’s a bit strange. hmmmm.
Where was the insult? (are you pointing to your attempt to insult me?)
*chuckle*
Don't forget that breast feeding is raw milk that is not FDA tested nor approved, so it's just got to be bad. But for some reason you don't hear about babies being poisoned by their mothers milk yet every year there large food poisonings by processed milk and milk products.
You yourself should study up on milk. Might I suggest "The Milk Book". It's a good introduction.
Yup... Makes you wonder how humans survived all those millennia before Louis Pasteur was born.
I don't count botulism as a disease but a disorder caused by poor storage technique...as was lead poisoning.
TB, Polio, Tetanus and Measles are "diseases" in my book. They wiped out alot of folks before vaccines came along.
The hygeine movement (food, water, sewer) saved more lives than all of the technology of modern medicine.
I agree that the hygiene movement saved alot of lives..... and we use much better techniques nowadays.
I drink raw "certified" goat's milk. It's certified because they test each batch for any bacteria or disease before selling it. Anyway, I researched this and found it helpful for IBS and it was.... in my case. Each to their own. :)
I grew up on raw milk because I lived next to my Grandparents’ farm and all the milk, butter, and meat came straight from them. I doubt, or at least don’t know, that there is any health benefit, but milk does indeed taste a heckuva lot better raw and whole.
“Raw milk is just another crackpot cure that’s dangerous.”
Raw milk should not be considered a cure. Pasturized milk causes more disease than raw milk. This is documented. Pasturization kills natural enzymes in milk. Lactose intolerance generally disappears with raw milk. Raw milk does not cause the heart disease that pasturized/homogenized milk causes. Our grandparents and great grandparents never had the opportunity to be poisoned by pasturized/homogenized milk. Outside the US more consumed milk is not pasturized.
I can provide you a list of diseases that can be caused by food there are several hundred, or specifically from raw milk, of which the most important are tuberculosis, brucellosis and Q fever but salmonella is probably more frequent.
Food borne illness has been a scourge on humanity. We have the most safe food supply since God set us down on earth. Our food supply has been so good for so long that when there is an outbreak of food born disease, it is news worthy.
I would feel more safe drinking raw goat milk than cow’s milk because they are much cleaner creatures. Although, other than being a good souce of calcium and protein, I am not sure that any animals milk is a particularly healthy for adults.
Raw milk, is a wonderfully healthful product.
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