crazy society

I have no desire to drink my milk raw, but I support your right to do so. As long as everything is honestly labeled, I think you should be allowed to buy whatever your neighbor is producing. I do support programs like organic certification where the government licences certification organizations, so we all have a standard of what product labels mean. There are also good privately run programs like the National Yogurt Association’s Live and Active Cultures seal and the various Kosher seals. I think supporting these types of certifications promotes the public perception that the food chain can be safeguarded without government interference.

not only the pointing of the finger but they point it at the indaveduals that cant defend themselfs! Look at the giant egg and produce recall that we just had more people got sick over this than they did from raw milk and I dont even like raw milk!

Thing is, it’s impossible to do a double-blind study, from what I hear raw milk tastes different enough, and any study that obviously is asking what kind of milk do you drink and how often are you ill will have reporter bias, so there’s no good way to prove the safety of the milk. A study of raw milk drinkers vs non-raw milk drinkers would indicate the safety to some degree though. Are there any raw milk companies/co-ops/associations that are big enough to fund such a study?

@jac 20919 wrote:

I see where your at but it does seem odd that a product that is a known killer is legal but the governments on both sides of the puddle oulaw raw milk ??? you should really give the raw milk a try btw, the flavour is totally better . providing the herd is tb and bruselocis tested there is no health risk.

$$$$$ That’s why. There is no Big Raw Milk lobby. That and at the time that pasteurization was mandated we didn’t have general good sanitation or refrigeration, so the science at the time was able to make a very strong case.

And we do prohibit tobacco use among those of the age group that are the biggest milk drinkers (babies and young children.) Maybe it would be a step in the right direction to have to be 18 to buy raw milk? 🙂

They told my mother the opposite, to stay away from any sort of raw food, or even processed foods that tend to sit around before consumption such as lunch meats.

The milk though I assume would be easy on the stomach and simple to digest as long as you are not lactose intolerant.

No doubt the additive have something to do with it. My father was a food engineer for many years, and he had many concerns. Each of the food additives is tested individually safe, but not in combinations. They once had some returned product when the vitamin additive reacted to the acid in the food and caused crystals to form. The customer thought there was broken glass in the food. And that’s just one additive in one natural food, nevermind all the different things they add.

I feel the same about many of our medicines. I try to be on as few as possible, despite my doctor’s recommendations for my chronic issues. There’s nothing wrong with fighting through it sometimes.

Oh, and it wasn’t the cancer that made Mom germophobic, it was the chemo.

I always wondered why it is neccessary to take stuff out of milk (fat and cream) and add other stuff (vitamins and who knows what else) to make it “better” for us.