How Safe Is Raw Milk?

I also grew up drinking raw milk and survived :)

It's all about keeping the milk clean during milking and processing. If you actually look at the junk that gets into pasteurized milk (which is why it has to be pasteurized right?) it's enough gross you out. Feces included *ugh* but it's pasteurized feces so it's ok...right?

If you've got a clean local farm that doesn't give hormone to their cattle, its worth it.
 
Yes, Raw Milk has the living enzymes. God made those in the milk for a reason and it is great for your immune system.....the pasturized crap is dead milk......and with the living enzymes dead becasue of the heating process, the benefits are greatly reduced....... raw milk tastes better too!
 
Commentary: The Raw Milk Revolution
Unpasteurized Milk is Taking Hold, Even among College Kids

Mark McAfee owns a 350-cow dairy, the largest raw dairy in the U.S. It’s in California where raw milk is legal for retail sale. After 24 million servings of his milk there have been absolutely no reported illnesses. That led him to conduct several tests on his milk and on the pasteurized variety. In one test, McAfee injected E.coli, listeria, and salmonella in his milk and in pasteurized milk. He says that in the raw milk, none of the added pathogens survived because of the naturally occurring acids and anti-microbial bacteria that fought off these pathogens. The pasteurized milk pathogens were able to grow much larger and spread throughout the milk, he says, because they did not have enzymes to stop their growth.

So if raw milk is much healthier, why do we use pasteurization? The process began after tuberculosis and E.Coli outbreaks in the 19th century. But these outbreaks were due to poor conditions of cattle and unsanitary workers. The problem was not raw milk but unclean raw milk.
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In my opinion, raw milk from a healthy cow is safer than ANY pasturized milk. The natural occuring bacteria in raw milk from a healthy cow will protect it from overgrowth of harmful bacteria.

Search mercola.com and westonaprice.org for more excellent information.

My family and I drink raw milk everyday, and have been for about 2 years (or maybe more now?) and I don't feel as good when I don't drink it. There is a reason that the establishment wants to ban it, and that's because they know it's healthy and good for us. Big pharma wants us to be sick, and healthy raw milk will do a lot for you to keep you well.
 
1: Drink raw milk from cows that are grass fed and recieve no growth hormones or anti-biotics.
2: Drink Rice milk. Found at any grocery store.
3: Drink Almond milk. Usually at most stores.
4: Vote for Ron Paul and get rid of pasteurized milk!
 
i grew up drinking raw milk from the family cow. i was never ill.
i do not drink milk, as i am an adult, but if i had to, it would be raw milk from organically fed cows.
 
Chirosupporter said:
1: Drink raw milk from cows that are grass fed and recieve no growth hormones or anti-biotics.
2: Drink Rice milk. Found at any grocery store.
3: Drink Almond milk. Usually at most stores.
4: Vote for Ron Paul and get rid of pasteurized milk!
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thanks for not suggesting soy milk. that is unhealthy, contary to what people are being told.
almond milk is wonderful, providing it's not from usa almonds, which, since last september, are treated with a carcinogenic chemical. i get spanish almonds instead.

the main reason i support RP is to get m freedoms back, and my food freedoms, especially.
 
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the pasteurization of milk (what I've heard from my close chemist+physicist friend) isn't really that great for you--is the process, a number of really good enzymes are destroyed, and others become harmful. He even tried an experiment--he cut off drinking milk, and this reoccurring medical problem he had vanished instantly.

The whole pasteurization process is unnecessary, really--there are much better ways of preserving and keeping milk. The people in the early 1900s had it right--they'd put a silver dollar in their milk, which would kill of all viruses or bacteria.

However, the FDA began its crusade against silver and its supposed "agyria effect" (which does happen, but only if the colloidal silver is impure or made improperly OR consumed in huge huge amounts). To this day, if milk from a farmer is found to contain any colloidal silver, the farmer is pretty much barred from ever selling milk again. Ahh, heaven forbid you get a natural anti-bacterial and anti-virus into the milk supply and cut down on nationwide disease...then where would the PIC (Pharm Industrial Complex) get their billions?

Vancouverite90210 said:
WHY CORPORATE AMERICA MUST BE CONTROLLED
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that's not very Libertarian to suggest we must control corporate America :P

I'm aware that it's corrupt beyond all belief, but the reason it can exert power and dominance over people is the MSM, which they own/control...this isn't just because of "deregulation" (as the "Conspiracy Theory Rock" humorously points out), but a number of other factors...the main cause of which is the lovely FCC. In the end, it's a few government organizations that cause this, and not just the corporations.
 
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whats the difference between raw, homogenized, and pasteurized? i buy my milk from a local dairy but its homogenized so i was wondering.
 
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When I was growing up before TN banned direct sale from farmers to consumers of raw milk, we lived near a dairy. We used to go there at milking time with our own gallon GLASS (they wouldn't dispense into plastic) jars and get our milk fresh from the cows. It was GREAT. We would take the milk home, chill it so the cream would rise to the top and then, make our own butter. The watery tasting stuff that we buy now in the grocery store tastes NOTHING like REAL fresh milk. I can't ever remember anyone EVER getting sick from the milk and, as a matter of fact, even though most all of us had ALL those childhood diseases that the nanny-state wants to vaccinate against now (measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, etc.), none of us ever had adhd, add, alergies or any of the 'common' ailments that seem to plague the vaccinated generations. Things to make you go hmmmm....
 
ConstitutionGal said:
When I was growing up before TN banned direct sale from farmers to consumers of raw milk, we lived near a dairy. We used to go there at milking time with our own gallon GLASS (they wouldn't dispense into plastic) jars and get our milk fresh from the cows. It was GREAT. We would take the milk home, chill it so the cream would rise to the top and then, make our own butter. The watery tasting stuff that we buy now in the grocery store tastes NOTHING like REAL fresh milk. I can't ever remember anyone EVER getting sick from the milk and, as a matter of fact, even though most all of us had ALL those childhood diseases that the nanny-state wants to vaccinate against now (measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, etc.), none of us ever had adhd, add, alergies or any of the 'common' ailments that seem to plague the vaccinated generations. Things to make you go hmmmm....
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yup....I had vaccinations when I was like 4-5 years old, and I was supposed to get them when I was in 8th grade....my mother was a teacher at the private school I went to, and well, we just got busy and forgot to get the 8th grade renewal shots.

the next year, we were exposed to a lot of various new information that was suppressed by the media about a lot of things.

Looking back, I can attribute that "forgetfulness" to only one thing: the Lord putting his protective hand on me in that instance.

Ironically enough, there were a number of people at this private school that actively opposed vaccinations...as several had children that were harmed by them.

Even though the States have the authority to regulate milk like that, I really wish they wouldn't--it's people's free choice to go and get milk there or not...if they get sick, it's very doubtful that they'll go back (unless it's just a fluke thing)...it's like with restaurants...if you go there and it gives you diarrhea (consistently), then you shouldn't go to the government to bar that restaurant from serving the public--people should actively choose to go there or not.
 
texaschristian said:
The information available seems to vary from one extreme to another.

I've had it a few times... my family used to have a farm when my sister and I were real young. Our folks wouldn't let us drink raw milk, but Grandma had no qualms of letting us sample it about as fresh as you can get - straight from the cow :D

Fast-forward a couple of decades, and I learn there is this huge controversy over whether or not people should be allowed to legally buy and sell raw milk. Some say it is a health hazard, others say the garbage they put in our milk that we buy from the store is the real danger :eek:

And on the rare occasion that I've seen anyone selling raw milk, the warning stickers about "may contain harmful bacteria" and "should not be consumed by infants, elderly, or persons with compromised immune systems" have made me too skittish to buy without conducting my own research first.

So, like the question says... how safe is raw milk? Do you drink it? Where do you get it from? If you're buying it from others how can you be sure it is safe (or is this not really an issue)?
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If your worried about bacteria in Raw Milk, stick a silver dollar or something 99.9% silver in the milk. The silver will kill any bacteria in the Milk. It was quite common for people to put a silver dollar in Raw Milk in the good old days. Even better is colloidial silver ==> http://www.usc.edu/CSSF/History/2005/Projects/J1322.pdf
 
We get raw milk from the farm every week. Raw milk hasn't had the healthy bacteria zapped out by pasteurizaition, so it works naturally to combat any bad bacteria that might be in there. On the other hand, any pasteurized milk that gets bad stuff in it, is such a dead food that you wouldn't know it was in there. Raw milk, if rotten, will smell rotten. Store milk, if rotten, will smell and taste just fine. That is why it can sit on a shelf for months. Yes MONTHS, and not go bad.
 
The real question should be...why drink cow milk at all ? Life energy ?...not sure what that means.

Humans are the only species which drink another species milk. There is a reason 25% of American's are lactose intolerant. This percentage hits 100 in other countries and with other nationalities. Humans were born to drink our mother's milk only, not then switch to another species' milk because we can.

There are still developing areas in the world where cow/goat milk is needed as a source of protein. The U.S. doesn't need it...heavy government subsidies, along with a multi million dollar "Got Milk?" message has allowed the declining milk industry to survive this long.

You don't see people drinking rat milk or dog milk despite the fact that they too produce milk. Calcium ? We get calcium from a hundred other foods, not to mention supplements.

www.notmilk.com
 
That video is so full of shit. Milk is fine. The less processed the better. If you can personally tolerate, it is fine as a food. Hell its orders of magnitudes better than nutritionally empty sugary drinks like pop or even processed "fruit" drinks.
 
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