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Lactose Intolerance — Causes, Symptoms and Treatment. The 8 Most Common Food Allergies. In my opinion instead of banning sale of raw milk, the consumer should be educated to boil before consuming. If not then there should be regulation to sell only cooked vegetables and meat.
We live near an Amish community that sells raw goat and cows milk. As far as I know none is ever tested for bacteria, etc. How can I be sure it is tested! This is in Crittenden County, KY. Thank you for your very helpful information.
Next, I have to see how expensive the raw milk actually is as was discussed in the communication above. I have had a milk cow on and off more on for yrs. MC My Cow is 6. The milk we drink is usually never over 24 hrs old. I can understand why the milk at the turn of the century made people sick. How many farms that sold milk back in the day had running water?
How did they clean those big milk cans everybody uses for decoration now? Who was doing the milking? What type of refrigeration did they have especially hauling the milk from each farm to the main distributor? If you come to my house and see my kitchen and my cow and feel I am clean enough and my cow is healthy and you want my milk,it should be up the the individual not the government telling you want you can and can not eat or drink.
I grew up in Wisconsin, the dairy state, drinking raw milk. Later, in Colorado, I raised my daughter on raw milk and her health was awesome! It has had no detrimental effects and I feel healther now than before. My mother grew up on a dairy farm where they always had fresh, raw milk. Unfortunately, my mom was allergic to the raw milk. The only way she could drink it without suffering an allergic reaction was to boil it. Great post. I love raw milk, it is such a life saver.
It is really important to realize the huge difference between living foods and dead ones. It is really a shame that raw milk is so expensive, but the cost is a result of our factory farm system which is destroying our planet and the poor animals that are trapped within it! Jaime, your article is a good summary of what has happened with our milk; thank you! However, I do want to make a clarification.
It is not the lactobacilli that have the immediate and main effect of breaking down lactose. Actually, they eat it for dinner! Likewise, protease for protein and lipase for fat. If the latter, that would explain it.
If not, I wonder if it was truly the milk that was the problem: was salmonella actually found in the milk, or was it just an easy conclusion for the doctor or public health officials to say it was the milk as very often happens now? My three sisters and I grew up on raw milk from our cow, Wendy. No one ever got sick, just a little repulsed when she ate wild onions. Daddy tried to teach each of us how to milk the cow, but we could barely hit the bucket.
He, however, could squirt the milk directly into the mouths of our cats who always gathered around hoping for a sip. I raised alpine dairy goats when my kids were still at home and they all helped with the milking chores. We filtered it and drank it unpasturized. It was wonderful. Now I have been drinking raw jersey cow milk from a certified dairy for 9 years now and we love it so much. My daughters went through strong healthy pregnancies three times drinking the milk and now my three grandkids are growing to strong healthy kids on raw milk.
We love to make yogurt, butter from the cream and ice cream. I would never drink a dead pasturized and homogenized product that just kills what the good Lord put into the milk in the first place. Recently, my sheep had twin lambs.
One of them got chilled a few days later and was near death. I got 10 syringes of raw cow milk down her and then a few hours later a bottle and she revived. We have been drinking raw goat milk for awhile now. We have had no problems. We make yogurt, cheese, kefir. My family is allergic to regular milk. We lovegoat milk. Nice and fresh from the farm. The goat milk we get is sweet. The flavor is similar to cow milk. No funny aftertaste. I drove for a milk hauling company some years ago, I received a gallon of free raw milk from several dairies before realizing there was a direct connection between milk from a dairy that was exceptionally clean and did a good job of cleaning the cows utter, VS one that does not, and is not as clean.
One should also take note of a study done a few years ago by the USDA cows fed exclusively organic grasses either baled or standing without added grains had virtually no E-coli in their feces or in their systems as a whole. Now some very high percentage of cows fed grains, and grasses had E-Coli in their feces. Also note that cows removed from a grain mixture diet and placed on a grass only diet thirty days prior to slaughter no longer had E-Coli in their feces… Now I raise my own free range cows, chickens, sheep,and turkeys.
I grew up on a farm in wisconsin, raised on raw milk, never had a problem and was reasonably healthy, in the sixties i married, moved to town, drank pasteurized and got sick everytime i drank it, to this day i cannot drink pastureized milk. Unfortunately, we all came down with salmonella confirmed by lab tests and we were terribly ill for about two weeks. Never again… this was the only time this dairy had a problem, but I still say, never again.
We drink raw milk when the goats are producing and eat our own homemade cheese. Nobody in this house has ever gotten sick from our milk or our home grown eggs for that matter. The price of raw milk depends entirely on the distributor.
And many raw food proponents also tout the virtues of goat milk over cow milk, because of the closer-to-human-milk qualities of the proteins and fats in goat milk raw, of course! The same thing happens with humans as well—returning to a more natural diet reverses disease for us.
I grew up drinking raw milk and never had a problem. Pasteurized milk however made me lactose intolerant. Finding raw milk is only half the problem though. The other problem is cost effectiveness.
What a shame. Moon Phase Calendar. Email Facebook 5 Pinterest Twitter. About the author Related Posts. Jaime McLeod. Pasteurized milk products have occasionally caused illnesses and outbreaks. Usually, this has happened because of germs introduced in the dairy after the pasteurization process.
Pasteurized milk that is correctly handled in the dairy, bottled, sealed, and refrigerated after pasteurization, and that is properly handled by the consumer, is very unlikely to contain illness-causing germs. Considering the large amount of pasteurized milk that people drink, illness from it is very rare.
Pasteurization is the only way to kill many of the bacteria in milk that can make people very sick. Disease-causing germs can be eliminated in milk only by pasteurization or by adding chemicals to the milk.
Pasteurization is the best method of getting rid of disease-causing organisms in milk and the only method routinely used in the United States.
Negative tests do not guarantee that raw milk is safe to drink. Milk that is safe one day may not be safe the next day. Also, tests do not always detect low levels of contamination. People have become very sick from drinking raw milk that came from farms that regularly tested their milk for bacteria and whose owners were sure that their milk was safe. Outbreaks of illness related to raw milk have been traced back to both grass-fed and grain-fed animals. Raw milk, regardless of whether it is organic, can contain harmful germs.
Following good hygienic practices during milking can reduce the chance of milk contamination but not completely eliminate it. Farmers cannot guarantee that their raw milk and the products made from it are free of harmful germs — even if tests indicate the raw milk does not contain harmful germs.
Even healthy animals may carry germs that can contaminate milk. Small numbers of bacteria can multiply and grow in milk from the time it is collected until the time a person drinks it. If the milk is not pasteurized to kill germs, people who drink it can get sick. Methods for collecting milk have improved over the years but cannot be relied on to be sure milk is safe to drink. Only pasteurization can make milk safe to drink.
You can find pasteurized organic milk and products made from it at many local, small farms. Many people believe that foods with little to no processing are better for their health.
Many people also believe that small, local farms are better sources of healthy food. However, some types of processing are needed to protect health. One type of processing happens when we cook raw meat, poultry, and fish to make them safe to eat.
Similarly, when milk is pasteurized, it is made safe by heating it just long enough to kill disease-causing germs. Most nutrients remain in milk after it is pasteurized. Raw milk contains bacteria, and some of them can be harmful. For example, pasteurized fermented foods, such as yogurt and kefir, contain bacteria that are safe to eat.
The presence of germs in raw milk is unpredictable. People can drink it for a long time without getting sick, and then get sick if their milk is contaminated.
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