As I said victorygal, if you see some benefit and feel they outweigh the risks you should be able to have all the raw milk you want. I totally agree with you about finding a good dairy but no matter how good, you still are risking listeria, ecoli, and any other number of bacterium. The consumers of raw milk “feel” there is a benefit and if they do then I have no problem with that. I just pointed out there is no science to support these feelings and, on the contrary, pasteurized milk has vitamins A and D added so I would think it is as healthful if not more until I see science that proves otherwise. Children, the elderly and any with compromised immune systems are more vulnerable to the bacterium and many get sick and sadly, there are deaths documented in that regard.
I’ve drank raw milk and never got sick as I know, but it can and will happen, it’s just a matter of odds and conditionals.
That’s just me, enjoy your milk in whatever permutation you choose, as is your right.
Regards,
A confessed chocomilkoholic
What you don't know can hurt you. First, the dairies that produce the raw milk are far cleaner than those that produce the pasteurized milk, and they feed their cows real food, i.e. green grass, alfalfa, oats, rather than silage made from other animals that have died from disease, any form of waste celulose, spoiled dairy products, spoiled produce, stale bakery goods, waste crushed seed from vegetable oil production, and ground up green waste from rsidential garbage pickup as all the others do. They also raise most of their own animals, and quarantine the animals that they purchase outside for months. Illness from consumption of commercial raw dairy products is extremely rare, almost to the point of nonexistence, as opposed to regular dairy products that produce thousands of illnesses per year. Much of the difference is due to the amount of care taken in handling the raw product, which is essentially absent in the regular dairies. Regular dairies are foul, disgusting places.