Raw Milk

This is why we should not drink cow's milk. Pasturized or not. Almond milk for me please! :happy:

My whole family drinks it every day, yum! I think you have to be aware of where your milk is coming from and know your farmer, but we have been drinking it for a year without issue. Healthy happy grass-fed cows make the best milk!

I suggest The Untold Story of Milk as a great information read as to why the pasteurization of milk began. Sick & diseased cows feeding on swill from distilleries who had a short life of 2-3yrs back in the 1920's weren't making healthy milk and thus began pasteurization.

Just like we prefer our milk to be real, that's how we enjoy our eggs, chickens, beef, pork, etc... I buy from a local farmer whose animals get a lovely happy life and that's the way it should be.

A number of people are advocating raw milk. Before you do this, you might read some science based evaluations. Raw milk is not save; up to 12% of raw mild samples are contaminated by pathogenic bacteria. From 1998 on, more than 40 separate outbreaks have been attributed to raw milk consumption that resulted in more than 800 illnesses.

Pregnant women run a serious risk of becoming ill from the bacteria Listeria which can cause miscarriage, fetal death or illness or death of a newborn.

http://foodscience.cornell.edu/cals/foodsci/extension/upload/RAW-MILK-MQIP-Position-Statement-01-09.doc
http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm079516.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/cheesespotlight/cheese_spotlight.htm
http://www.slate.com/id/2260389/

Completely agree!

I'm sure its fine if you're used to it. I tried it once and was sick afterwards. No thanks. I'll stick to my organic skim. Although, I did have Vanilla Soy Milk (stolen from my veggie wife) w/ my oatmeal this morning, and it wasn't half bad.

I get my milk from the cat. You can after all milk a cat.

I have ni**les, Greg. Could you milk me? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Milk your cat? Not going to even touch that stupidness ...

It's a bit from a movie

I get my milk from the cat. You can after all milk a cat.

I have ni**les, Greg. Could you milk me? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Oh My!

1997, 28 persons ill from Salmonella in California, ALL FROM PASTEURIZED MILK.

1996, 46 persons ill from Campylobacter and Salmonella in California.

1994, 105 persons ill from E. coli and Listeria in California

March of 1985 19,660 confirmed cases of Salmonella typhimurium illness FROM CONSUMING PROPERLY PASTEURIZED MILK. Over 200,000 people ill from Salmonella typhimurium in PASTEURIZED MILK

1985, 142 cases and 47 deaths traced to PASTEURIZED Mexican-style cheese contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes SURVIVES PASTEURIZATION!

1985, 1500 persons ill from Salmonella infection

August of 1984 approximately 200 persons became ill with a Salmonella typhimurium from CONSUMING PASTEURIZED MILK

November of 1984, another outbreak of Salmonella typhimurium illness from CONSUMING PASTEURIZED MILK

1983, over 49 persons with Listeria illness have been associated with the consumption of PASTEURIZED MILK in Massachusetts.

1993, 28 persons ill from Salmonella infection

1982, 172 persons ill (100 hospitalized) from a three Southern state area from PASTEURIZED MILK.

1982, over 17,000 persons became ill with Yersinia enterocolitica from PASTEURIZED MILK bottled in Memphis, Tennessee.

The only healthy milk comes from contented cows living natural cow lives in pastures. If you want milk that's full of pus resulting from the mastitis of sick cows, then drink pasteurized milk. Healthy raw milk comes from healthy cows. Sick pasteurized milk comes from sick cows living in sick environments.

When cows are stored in sick environments, they become sick and produce sick milk requiring pasteurization so it won't kill you. Modern factory farming reduces dairy cattle to barely living milk-producing sacs. They are pain-wracked, live in fear, are starved for relationships with their fellows, pumped full of antibiotics and other system-changing drugs. Obviously, they can produce only sick milk.

Milk your cat? Not going to even touch that stupidness ...

It's a bit from a movie

I love it, have you seen the little fockers yet?

Milk your cat? Not going to even touch that stupidness ...

It's a bit from a movie

I love it, have you seen the little fockers yet?

NO!!! I see it's on PPV but haven't had the time to sit down and "rent" it. :frown:

It's pretty good, maybe not as good as the first one, but they never are.

Milk your cat? Not going to even touch that stupidness ...

It's a bit from a movie

I love it, have you seen the little fockers yet?

NO!!! I see it's on PPV but haven't had the time to sit down and "rent" it. :frown:

It's pretty good, maybe not as good as the first one, but they never are.

Did you see the 2nd one? It was so-so

Yes, I like Little Fockers better. Speaking of Movies, I give 5 out of 5 thumbs up to Brides Maids, it is awesome.