Letters to the Editor
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I drink raw milk
It is legal in my state. It is also delicious.
I'm pretty risk averse, so I was wary about switching to it. The farm we buy it from is very small and very clean and they test the milk for bacteria before sending it out to customers. This was a big factor in my decision to drink raw milk.
The farm is organic, sustainable, local, and run by a very nice family so I feel good about it on many levels. I am aware of the risk I am taking and I certainly don't expect this milk to be some sort of health panacea. If it does make me sick someday it'll make me sick, but the harmful effects of the way we are currently producing our food is making everyone sick.
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Raw (Goat) Milk in Austin
White Egret Farm: http://www.whiteegretfarm.com/
The owner caught hell from the Texas Department of Health a while back (illegal retail sale of raw milk), but they're still in business. And they deliver!
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How can we New Yorkers get in touch with this group?
God I would LOVE to be able to pick up raw milk in Union Square. I had some in Vermont last summer and it was sooooo tasty.
Can you post a link to this group?
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FDA and sunblock
The FDA doesn't ban "SPF 60" sunblock. The FDA simply doesn't let you sell something with such an outrageous claim on the bottle. Hell a sheet of newspaper probably doesn't have an SPF of 60. Such products are allowed to be sold in the USA. They simply have to be re-labeled as "SPF 30 Plus".
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does it have to be raw?
Could the health benefits of raw milk be found in organic milk as well? I'm looking for a middle ground between raw and industrial milk.
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I can see why asthma, hay fever, etc could be reduced
It is the same reason why I think people are crazy to try to provide an aseptic environment for their kids--the immune system is designed to do stuff. Raw milk may be helping kids BECAUSE it is dirty, not despite it. I saw an interesting study about Crohn's disease a few years back that indicated that consuming pig ringworm eggs--which hatched but were different enough from human ringworm that they did not permanently infest the host--was as effective as biologics in treating the disease. Our obsession with cleanliness has both good and bad sides.
On the other hand, I think there are plenty of ways to obtain the nutrients in question without playing russian roulette with one's health, potentially. If a lot of these things are contained in yoghurt, why not eat yoghurt? There's a difference between giving the immune system something to do and getting your kids sick for no reason. I don't see anyone clamoring for a return to untreated water and cholera epidemics (although I wouldn't put it past the people who idealize the past and reject protections because they no longer fear the dire consequences of things like not vaccinating your kids).
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Raw Milk and Probiotics
If you think consuming raw milk is a bad idea, don't drink it; posting here does not validate your stance against it.
For those of you trying to understand the health benefits of the probiotics in raw milk, a simple internet search on them will yield plenty of information--raw milk is not the only source.
If you are inclined to commit to a lifestyle that includes probiotics, be aware that the chlorine in municipal water can destroy probiotics. Distilled or very, very well-purified water will allow your body to take full advantage of probiotics. Continuing to drink tap water while consuming any form of probiotics is at best a 'two-steps-forward, one-step-back' approach.
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Cow milk is for calves.
I cannot understand why anyone beyond infancy drinks milk. Milk is what mother animals feed their babies.
Would people who drink cow's milk drink a mother dog's milk; after all, once you cross the species barrier, why stop with cows or goats? Just wondering, since to me it's all the same. (Jane Curtin certainly thought it was disgusting).
I suppose raw milk is better than that putrid, white liquid pus which comes out of factory farms and is sold to the public as "milk." As long as the cows are treated well, including their calves, I suppose it's to each their own. Like many other people in the world, though, I think it's gross.
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Urinic Varietals
Forget raw cow milk, human piss is quickly proving to be a tonic. Vorsht Horshbolt, noted pissantist, had this to say, "Human urine cures many ailments, such as diabetes, lung cancer, nosepickery, cocksuckery, dumbfu--" The interview abruptly ended as two gentlemen in white coats threw a large net over Mr. Horshbolt.
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Drink Deeply of Unpasturized Milk, Liberals
Feed it to your babies, please.
Muahahahahahahahahahha!
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Shocking!!! PANIC NOW!!!! boo.
Yes very shocking DurianJoe. Spoken like a true wackjob. Care to prove that pasturised milk is pure puss with something OTHER than a PETA link?
Ya know what your eating when you choke down your daily pound of bean sprouts? That’s right its little baby bean fetuses.
Shocking aint it?
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Got pus? (For Nony)
Nony, though I regard you much like what I scrape off the bottom of my shoes, you are entitled to an answer, though I doubt anything will change your mind about anything. This is one of many links regarding the filthy condition of factory farmed milk, and no, my foaming friend, it's not PETA (of which I am not a member, incidentally).
http://www.familyfarmdefenders.org/pmwiki.php/BovineGrowthHormone/GotPus
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I'd Like to Hear More About Alternatives, Too
What about organic milk? Does pasteurized milk from a grass-fed cow contain the immune system building nutrients raw milk is being prasied for? Is is possible to put those nutrients in a product (not necessarily milk) that can be consumed without worrying about the disease raw milk can potentially carry?
I only drink rice milk, but I'd be willing to try pasteurized organic.
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Real raw milk drinkers
suck it straight from the udder, slurping and bobbing that big, pink, sticky teat. Nothing like a sticky faceful of cow chowder! Mookakke is the only way to get that life-giving fluid. Yes, oh god yes, give it to me, Bessie!!!
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Grass-fed cows good for birdlife, too
The book 101 Ways to Help Birds encourages people to eat grass-fed rather than corn-fed beef whenever possible. Habitat destruction for corn fields is exacerbated by the fact that farmers apply more pesticides and fertilizer to corn crops than other food crops. Cows feeding in pastures can live side by side with a variety of wildlife that can't survive in corn monocultures. And run-off from feed lots can be horribly toxic to fish in streams and other surface waters.