The case for raw milk (vs cardboard cow)

In 1987 the FDA banned interstate shipping of raw milk and today it's retail sale is only legal in dozen or so states. There's a very devoted group who believe that pasteurized milk is "dead milk" and are fighting to make it easier to buy. Raw milk has such a following that people form secret clubs or buy portions of a cow in order to circumvent state laws regulating its sale.

In March of 2010, Idaho made things just a bit easier for producers of raw milk. A small-herd exemption was passed that allowed farmers with 7 or fewer goats or sheep and 3 or fewer cows to produce raw milk or raw milk products for human consumption.
Original story here: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/the-case-for-raw-milk-vs-cardboard-cow/

In this video, the folks at Bellevue Idaho's Cottonwood Ranch milk their small herd and explain why they think that pasteurization "spoils the taste" and "changes the contents into stuff that you may or may not be able to use." Or as 30-year-old Eric Barney explains, why "the bought milk" tastes like "cardboard cow".

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[marcus3379]

The reason why raw milk is illegal is because pasteurized milk stores longer and is therefore more profitable.

[wjestick]

@nicenicenicole

You clearly know nothing about pasteurisation. Let us start your education. The test for successful pasteurisation is the negative phosphatase test. This tests for the complete destruction of the enzyme phosphatase. This alkalysing enzyme is needed for the absorption of Calcium. Here endeth the lesson!

[wjestick]

@Vingauld

And if there is no pathogen, it just kills the good bacteria, destroys all the anti-bodies, and enzymes, reduces the vitamins, and de-natures the proteins.

It is like drinking bleach to treat a sore throat, kills the germs, shame about the patient.

Clean grass fed cows, carefully milked have been proven to produce safe nutritious raw milk. Dairies like "Hook and Son" UK, and "Organic Pastures", US have passed many inspections to prove the point.

[ferrisbueller9000]

Were these Miniature nubians??? Thanks, really nice video!

[ThinkPureTruth]

@nicenicenicole Lookey here. I eat like Dr. McDougall recommends. Starch, Fruit and Vegees. I just use a little Grated Cheese once in a great while. I used to be 150 lbs and now 133 at 5'8" I am not a vegan but I eat 97% plant foods every day. I am not sick. Years ago, I drank 1 gallon of raw cow's milk from cows I milked for 1 week. I did not get sick. I did not get constipated. I did not get big pimples. These simple loving farm folk probably look and act healthier than you and I. They're OK.

[Vingauld]

Diseases that pasteurization can prevent include tuberculosis, brucellosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever and Q-fever; it also kills the harmful bacteria Salmonella, Listeria, Yersinia, Campylobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli 157 among others.

[MrSchpankme]

Pasteurized Milk is a means of selling a filthy product, stored and processed from bulk tanks.

[whisperingsin]

@nicenicenicole Like your blood, raw milk is loaded with cells and elements to protect it from contamination. Pasteurizing kills the built in protection and the majority of the nutrients. Unlike pasteurized milk, whole milk never spoils. It only changes into other healthy milk based products.

[IdahoDachnik]

I have since this video gotten my small herd exemption. My milk gets tested by the same inspector that does the big dairies. My E-coli counts have been <1. which is far below the legal limit. I have noticed a prevailing fear of raw milk as expressed by the comment below. It seems strange that people don't call for salad to be illegal even though there are cases of bacteria on vegetables.

[nicenicenicole]

Raw milk is illegal for a reason, and that's because there's tons of pathogenic microbes in it. This uniformed farmer clearly understand that there's nothing wrong with pasteurization of milk.

Also, SCIENCE IS BAD HERP DERP