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I grew up on milk that was not pasteurized, hormonalized, antibacterialized, or steroidilized. It was milk that was not destroyed of enzymes, and most vitamins and minerals. It wasn’t called raw milk, as the name might imply something that might be unhealthy. It was just fresh whole milk , with all the god giving Vitamins, Minerals and Enzymes intact. It was from cows that were feed nutritious grass instead of unhealthy pesticided grains. It was bought and drank fresh, with delicious cream floating on the top.
There were 7 children in my family and we were very healthy. I don’t remember any of us having broken bones, ear infections, allergies, or any of the other problem you see so many children have today, and we did not have to take Calcium supplements. Fresh WHOLE MILK (RAW) is making a come back. In part because people are starting to think for themselves and not let corporations, through lobbyist government, think for them. The following is, in part, a recent article from the Boston Globe.
GOT RAW MILK?
Patients are either ignoring their doctors or lying to them. Mothers are sneaking the stuff into their children’s cups. regulators are trying to control explosive growth. What has people so heated up over milk?
By David E. Gumpert / March 23, 2008
Boston Globe Magazine
Valerie Walbek is a 28-year old nurse practitioner at the Falmouth clinic who gives all her pregnant patients the same advice: Eat four daily servings of dairy products and by all means avoid any dairy that is unpasteurized. That’s because the US Food and Drug Administration, the Center for Disease control, and the American Medical Association have warned for years that unpasteurized - or “raw”- milk and cheeses can carry listeria, a potentially deadly kind of bacteria, and other pathogens that are particularly threatening to pregnant women and their babies.
But what Walbek doesn’t tell her patients is that when she was pregnant with her first child last year , she drank gallons of unpasteurized milk. The milk purchased from a Foxborough farm each week. With just a few notable exceptions - the midwife helping with the birth of her child, the Cape residents she shares milk pickup and delivery chores with, and her husband, Daniel Walbek, an engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - she didn’t confide in anyone one , even though she considers the four obstetricians she works with in the Falmouth practice “all friends.”
“I have mentioned to them that I go to a farm for my milk, but not that it is raw.” she says. Until now, eight month after the birth of her daughter, Lucia, Walbek hadn’ revealed this information publicly. I’m a little new to talk about it, she says.
Quietly - since the accepted medical and public health wisdom is that raw milk is a dangerous source of bacteria, including listeria, salmonella, and E.coli - hundreds of consumers around Boston have made the same decision. A total of 24 Massachusetts dairies now have permits to sell raw milk, double the number two years ago. Just Dairy a buying club that delivers raw milk from central Massachusetts to Boston - area consumers, now drop off more then 250 gallons weekly around the Metropolitan area, versus 25 gallons when launched five years ago. Producers around the state say that raw milk is increasingly a sought after product. Production is rising though raw milk sells for as much as $ 8.50 a gallon, verses about 3.50 for pasteurized milk.
Nationwide, it’s difficult to know how many people regularly consume unpasteurized milk. Selling raw milk is illegal in 18 states, and in four other, it can be purchased only as pet food. But Sally Fallon, founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy and research group in Washington D.C. estimates ( based on her organization analysis of CDC data) that about 500,00 Americans - about 5 percent of milk drinkers - regularly consume raw milk. The group believes that the number is growing exponentially.
To read the rest of the article, and please do, go to boston.com And if you live in one of the 18 states that you can not buy raw milk remember ,do not! and I repeat do not !!! even give it to your guinea pig. And you better have a good lawyer on hand if you do
Roger Francoeur
Consume of raw ( whole) milk .
I don’t think we are one of those 18 states? If we are please disregard the last statement .
