Raw Milk and SB 201

information about senate bill 201 and how it affects consumer choice

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[farmmur]

If anybody is stll watching this site I want to add my story. My wife and I live on a small farm where we milk our own cow, Daisy. We buy very little from the grocery store as our diet consists of raw milk, butter, our own beef, pork, eggs and chickens as well as vegetables and berries from a large garden.

We were both raised on raw milk and we have never had any problems. I start having physical problems when I go off raw milk.

Government intervention is, in my opinion, way over the line.

[LiveWisely]

I don't get it. There are plenty of foods with probiotics.

So why is there an attack on raw milk?

Cuz, it isn't about the food...it is about the organic farmers competing with corporate farmers. Corporate farmers simply bully organic farmers with their legal army.

[delicatelilflower88]

this is why im voting for RON PAUL he drinks raw goat milk and said that the government shouldnt tell us what to eat. its AMERICA

[alejonsu]

I have being drinking raw milk for a while now. Just this week, I was talking to my wife about the fact that so far this winter, I having being sick with the flue, which I usually get at least 2 times during the winter. One of the ladies in this video mention that her family didn't got flue during the winter and it may be because of the raw milk. May be me too!!

[TheHorta]

There has not been a raw-milk related death in America over 11 years, in spite of the continued consumption of MILLIONS of gallons of raw milk annually. There ARE MANY annual deaths from the consumption of Peanuts, Spinach, Poultry, Beef, Seafood, Lettuce, and most other foods -- yet raw milk hysteria is still pounded into the heads by a woefully ignorant government and general populace.

[pontecanis]

Try reading my post again---I stated that the TB came from human contamination. TB remains a problem today, much moreso than people realize. It is easy to carry TB and remain asymtomatic or merely have a slight cough [current WHO estimate is 30% of any given population carries TB]. Drug-resistant TB is becoming more prevalent as well. Pasteurization eliminates the risk. Anyone with a +ve TB test who has an X-Ray instead of the test carries TB having been exposed.

[pontecanis]

Dolly caught aspergillus from her bedding--straw--same as used by cows, who also can get aspergillosis from straw bedding. This passes into their milk, creating a health threat. Aspergillus is quite happy to grow in the human lung, where it causes permanent scarring and tissue rigididity, severely shortening life span. Imagine giving your child aspergillosis from raw milk when it could have been prevented by pasteurization?

[rmed30]

: Maybe you heard of another idea that Pasteur disproved called "spontaneous generation." In other words, TB doesn't grow out of butterfat and cholesterol. It has to be present in the first place. Which, if animals are tested (and they are), it shouldn't be present in the first place.

[rmed30]

: Wow, Dolly? Really? SPeaking of another century. Do YOU pay attention to current events much? First of all that was ONE animal 15 years ago, who was probably immunocompromised from the getgo due to the fact that she was, oh I don't know, the FIRST cloned animal ever. What the hell does cloning have to do with anything? How does that assinine story relate to raw milk? I suspected before, now I can confirm, that you are strictly speaking out of your ass.

[pontecanis]

Pay attention much? Dolly the cloned sheep died of aspergillus contracted from her bedding--it remains a problem. Small operations where farmers are easily able to control what happens to small numbers of cows are not the problem, but large operations remain questionable. The other aspect is that raw milk untreated in any way is a high source of butterfat and cholesterol and remains a potential growth medium for such pathogens as TB. Pasteur wasn't a fool.

[rmed30]

: Oh. Well it seems that since we don't live in the 19th century anymore and farmers have to abide by minimal sanitation standards that you comment has NOTHING to do with milk. You could apply the exact same arguement to say, asparagus, that has been collected salmonella. Or a glass of water that was left in a moldy basement.