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    Raw Milk...Thoughts?

    Posts: 417 Member
    edited February 3 in Food and Nutrition
    So this morning I tried my first cup of grass-fed organic cow's milk...raw. I have to say I really liked it! Not much different than the whole milk I have been used to drinking.

    I know there's controversy surrounded by consumption of raw milk, but I'd like to get your thoughts on it.

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    • Posts: 14,025 Member
      What thoughts? There is no legit reason it should not be legal. That is all.
    • Posts: 5,537 Member
      Do you even know what you've started?

      I had raw milk a few times. I like it.
    • Posts: 4,710 Member
      In b4 Campylobacter
    • Posts: 1,508 Member
      Breast milk is all I drink. That's milk in the rawest form and it is produced specifically for humans.
    • Posts: 470 Member
      What thoughts? There is no legit reason it should not be legal. That is all.

      I absolutely agree.
    • Posts: 752 Member
      Breast milk is all I drink. That's milk in the rawest form and it is produced specifically for humans.

      XD
    • Posts: 625 Member
      So this morning I tried my first cup of grass-fed organic cow's milk...raw. I have to say I really liked it! Not much different than the whole milk I have been used to drinking.

      I know there's controversy surrounded by consumption of raw milk, but I'd like to get your thoughts on it.
      It's not legal in my state so I haven't tried it. I don't actually drink milk, but I would like to have an easy source to make raw milk cheese which is really expensive in the grocery store. Stupid laws.
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    • Posts: 1,298 Member
      It's illegal to sell where I am, but farmers can 'give it away'. Personally I've never tried it. There have been cases of food poisoning because of raw milk which is why it's not a huge thing over here. If someone gets sick from milk, you bet it'll be on the 6 o'clock news!
    • Posts: 54
      We drank raw milk for years from a non organic (admittedly, pretty dirty looking dairy). Never had any problems. I don't drink much milk anymore.

      Why on earth should it be illegal? People know the risk, they can do whatever they want with their own body.
    • Posts: 7,512 Member
      Please DO NOT drink any unpasteurized milk if you are pregnant or immunocompromised.
    • Posts: 300 Member
      What thoughts? There is no legit reason it should not be legal. That is all.

      I agree that drinking raw milk is stupid, but I disagree that it should be illegal. I don't want my money (tax dollars) being spent on preventing other people from being idiots. It affects them, not me... so it's none of my business.

      As part of the "none of my business" belief, if the raw milk drinkers get salmonella, e. coli, or listeria... other than an "I told you so", it's not my business either.
    • Posts: 3,705 Member
      If you aren't use to it or don't know the farmer it can be a baaaaaad idea. My uncle had a farm and once or twice we had some milk before it was boiled but it had not been out of the cow for more than a couple of minutes.
    • Posts: 7,512 Member
      Louis Pasteur is my hero!
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    • Posts: 200 Member
      When you drink milk straight out of cow, it's frankly disgusting. I've done it, on the farm, almost every summer as a kid. Not only is milking the cow nasty, their tails are full of crap and hay and they quite often swish it into the bucket. The milk is warm, flies land in it, cats are drinking out of it, and most of it was milked directly into a what I would say is not the cleanest pail (rinsed each time with the garden hose). There's nothing quite like picking a cow tail hair with manure still on it out of your cereal bowl. I don't eat the wheat right off the stalk either, I prefer it once it's been made into a loaf of bread.

      To each their own though.

      I'll have mine pasteurized please.
    • Posts: 54

      I agree that drinking raw milk is stupid, but I disagree that it should be illegal. I don't want my money (tax dollars) being spent on preventing other people from being idiots. It affects them, not me... so it's none of my business.

      As part of the "none of my business" belief, if the raw milk drinkers get salmonella, e. coli, or listeria... other than an "I told you so", it's not my business either.

      Thank you!
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