Time Magazine Cites Mercola.com as a Leader in the Raw Milk Movement

re: Time Magazine Cites Mercola.com as a Leader in the Raw Milk Movement

petra_203 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:11:00 GMT

Hi, this is petra from australia

i posted a comment but i have no idea where it has ended up, i have a question regarding raw milk, I have high cholestorol and i need to reduce it , is raw milk going to help or hinder this, also i am overweight, so does it make losing weight harder also, I have access to raw milk and have been thinking recently about getting back into it. but just need these q's answered thanks,
cheers petra

re: Time Magazine Cites Mercola.com as a Leader in the Raw Milk Movement

petra_203 — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:59:45 GMT

Hi, this is petra, i am new to this,

I have just been told that my cholestorol is high and I must cut down on fats, I have access to raw milk and have only recently been thinking that I must get back to drinking it. can some one tell me if raw milk is good or bad for a person who is trying to reduce their cholesterol level. also I am overweight, I believe that raw milk is a health food but is it going to make weight loss harder thanks, cheers petra from australia

re: Time Magazine Cites Mercola.com as a Leader in the Raw Milk Movement

dayeinu — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:43:08 GMT

I am surprised that few if any refer to the health benefits of raw goat's milk. I know that some folks who have problems digesting raw cow's milk do fine with goat's milk. It makes wonderful kefir.

~Lynda

re: Time Magazine Cites Mercola.com as a Leader in the Raw Milk Movement

beercroftdouglas — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:34:57 GMT

I was in the dairy business for some 10 years from producing to processing, Graduated from U of Ariz Dairy major-Manager of Milk Processing at said U for two years. Suffered from strep throat from dringink raw milk from Brother-inlaws dairy befor antibiotics. Would not drink raw milk from a comercial dairy under any conditions. However, under a perfect world I provided milk for my own family from my own family milk cow (pasture plus good hay and grain) for some 30 years, until I ran all my healthy kids off the farm. I realize that any food is more nutricious before cooking but some 10,000 years ago our wives became sophisticated and started cooking all our food and somehow we have managed to survive. I think you are OK in spite of differing with you on raw milk. I have seen too much cow s--- end up in the milk supply!!! For ever your buddy, Doug Beecroft

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cin_203 — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:27:05 GMT

GOT Whole Fat, Grass Fed, Organic, RAW MILK??????
Well, I do and I drive an hour each way to get it. I also get eggs from chickens that are truly free range. I feel fortunate to have found someone who cares and takes the time and energy to bring this food to my family's table. Find a farmer who has the conviction and dedication to stay true to the traditional methods of growing and raising real food and then give them your patronage. Help them to be sustainable and maybe, just maybe, we can turn this mess around that the FDA created. Do not be intimidated by their scare tactics
Our bodies were not made to run on pasteurized milk! Or any of the other crap lining the grocery store aisles for that matter.

And for those of you who may be sensitive to milk, there's a good chance you will be able to tolerate just the raw cream if it's diluted with water.

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Magnolia — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:17:56 GMT

You know, I am so angry about this issue that it is hard to even talk about it. I went to www.fda.gov and checked out some of the articles there to see what kind of lies they were handing out to the public and was really disgusted. They quoted studies without saying who did the study, and why. They stated theories as fact. The phrase, "raw milk is dangerous," was repeated over and over. They claimed that raw milk kills babies. What a load of hooey. I drank raw milk as a child and never was sick from it. I don't even KNOW anyone who has been sickened by drinking raw milk.

I sense that there is a strong political twist to this issue and we haven't seen the deep issue behind the false front that is being presented. My suspicion is that the large dairy conglomerates are lobbying these state legislators heavily and that they are terrified that milk prices will fall when the mass majority finally realizes that they have been fed a pack of lies. The FDA has and will continue to be corrupt and corruptible. Money is the grease that keeps this machine working. Vote with your pocketbook and stop buying pasteurized milk. I can't get fresh raw milk in Georgia anywhere near Atlanta, but I used to get it from a farm in North Georgia. Alas, I don't know how to contact those people anymore. And I have so little time to drive the vast distances to secure it (illegally) from South Carolina. Shame on our governement.

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SharonBarlow — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:49:46 GMT

Years ago Adele Davis had a recipe for yoghurt that started with unpasteurized milk powder if fresh raw milk was not available. Does anyone know if you can still get that powder and would it have nutrional value if you could?

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Barbara Charis — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:53:30 GMT

In 1976 I went to Dr. Paavo Airola for a consultation 6 weeks before my son was born. I had been a vegetarian for 3 years - avoiding milk and had been doing great!
Then I followed his advice and started drinking raw milk & eating raw cheese.....in 3 months I had a lemon sized growth. Two doctors told me that I would be given no guarantees, unless it was surgically removed.
Being into nutrition - I simply stopped the milk & cheese & in 2-l/2 months the lemon-sized tumor was gone - never came back..
There is a limit to the amount of protein humans can handle - and cow's milk was designed for a 500 lb growth in 9 months for a calf.
How can humans drink milk, when 8 oz (8 grams) fills 1/3 - l/4 of daily protein requirements? All I require is: 26 grams

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rapunzel210 — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:41:53 GMT

I live in Florida, so the raw milk I'm able to get, and I'm SO lucky to be able to get it, is labeled "for animal consumption only." I've been drinking this milk (AND feeding my critters with it!) and making kefir and yogurt out of it for over three years now. I avoid pasteurized and especially homogenized milk like the plague, whether it's organic or not. I think the most influential and radical thing we can do right now is take back our right to fresh, wholesome, clean food and water, and obtaining raw milk is one way to do it.

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Amadaun — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:33:15 GMT

Raw milk is a wonderful food, but before consuming it, I would make a thorough check of the farm. Bovine Leukemia Virus is widespread in herds nowadays, and is being studied as a link to human breast cancer. It can be spread to calves by feeding milk from infected cows. I presume they could test for the presence of it in the herd, maybe provide a certificate? Personally, I only drink raw milk from my own cows, who were hand reared on milk powder and haven't been vaccinated at all. Other nasties in milk include yersinia, mycobacterium paratuberculosis, listeria and salmonella. We could and should be drinking milk as it was intended to be drunk, but modern farming practices, such as large herds and vaccination may make it unsafe. Just my 0.2

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sucram — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:34:28 GMT

Is raw organic milk from grass-fed cows a serious health risk or not? I was under the impression that raw cow's milk could cause food poisoning and actually kill the consumer!.

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proatc — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:20:10 GMT

I live in CA, and know a dairy farmer who has so many cows there are 6-8 born every day! Their family drinks it raw, other dairy farmers here in the valley have their families drinking it raw, kinda silly to sell your milk away just to buy it at the store when the cows are right there. So if they drink it raw from their not so clean dairies, then it must be safe. Other interesting tidbits from a traditional dairy is that there milk sits in large vats/containers that slowly chill the milk to below 40 degrees, if it is not below 40 degrees the trucks won't pick it up and take it for processing. Depending on where the dairy is on the stop it could be 2-3 hours later after the last cow is milked, plus the amount of milk extracted is so large that it takes a couple of hours to chill it down to reduce disease and bacteria and that is why it has to be pasteurized. Organic Pastures dairy has a low bacteria count because they rapidly chill the milk within seconds once extracted from the cow! Big difference in reducing bacteria count. As far as Ohio Dairy Council or any other state Milk Board for that matter, supporting the big pasteurized dairies, its bureaucrats protecting their jobs not protecting the farmers. It is a government subsidized product, the dairy farmer isn't concerned at all, what is the government going to do not subsidize the milk anymore just because raw milk consumption rises? Yeah right, just like the government will stop Medicare or Social Security! Once a government program starts almost impossible to get rid of, just like their employees.

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Bridestein — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:14:17 GMT

Just to set the record straight, I live in California and raw milk is illegal where I live. The local health food store tried selling raw milk and the county health department came in and raided, bullied and threatened them so badly that they won't even talk about it. I cannot even get anyone to sell it to me as pet food. To make matters more ironic, this county has more pasture grazing cows than anywhere else in the state.

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Leesh — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:43:57 GMT

I am so glad I live in California where raw milk is legal! Although, it wasn't that long ago when they shut down my supplier for a couple weeks. A few months ago, Organic Pastures was under investigation and all their milk was recalled. All because there was an E-coli scare. What did they find? NOTHING!!!! I think it's very interesting that every time they try to "aha" the raw-milk drinkers they find nothing wrong with the milk. The ironic thing is that people think raw milk is bad for them, when the truth is pasteurized milk is horrible for your health. Once again, they took one of God's super foods and made it into something BAD for you...

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Russ Bianchi — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:09:19 GMT

It amazes me how short the public's collective memory is.

In the 1960's, growing up both in a rural area, and than an urban area, of California, there was always daily home delivery of "fresh" (whole, chilled and raw - perhaps then flash pasteurized in the late 60's) milk.

Such fresh milk was delivered in recyclable (steamed and cleaned) thick clear glass bottles, that were not homogenized, and the butter cream would rise to the surface. It had great taste, wholesome nutrition, and no one got FAT off it. Children drinking this milk seemed healthier back then; I do not believe this is a mere coincidence.

It would be VERY interesting to compare if listeria, salmonella, or other microbiological, or bacteriological issues even existed, drinking this wholesome fresh product back then, (many times not even regularly chilled, along with unchilled fresh egg delivery), versus today's CDC numbers on antibiotic laden, disease resistant, and highly manipulated, ultra fragmented and processed (nutritionally dumb-downed) long distribution time, store bought milk.

With "value added " (profit) segmentation of dairy, starting with hyping powdered milk, then skim, then low fat, then fat free, along with emulsified and aerated butters (to make more money selling off butter fat at higher separate pricing, to industry use elsewhere, including fake flavorings), the entire current American dairy production and distribution structure is very corrupted nutritionally.

When dairy operations are using "does not have or contain" advertising, to sell a product (like cloning or health harming hormones) it's time to BOYCOTT that product line.

DRINK RAW MILK...It Does A Body Good!