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Monday, May 10, 2010

And All the Cows Said Moo, TWO!


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In March I wrote a blog called And All the Cows Said Moo! about eating raw, organic, grass-fed animal products, and how Eat Wild is a great website and resource for finding raw, organic, grass-fed farmers in your neck of the woods.

Well, via Dr. Mercola and then via Organic Pastures, I found a website that focuses on raw, organic, grass-fed, pasture-raised cow milk. Yay! Eat Wild is great, but they list independent farmers who sell meat as well as farmers who sell pasteurized milk, which I don't drink anymore, and which I don't advocate, and fortunately, I have a credible doctor to back me up. I was going to quote only a few lines, but as I continued to read, I realized there's a lot of good information that you all may be interested in reading. If you want to read the details later, the website for finding good, raw, organic, grass-fed milk in your area is RealMilk.com.

Here's the valuable information from Dr. Mercola's website:


Did you know there are two types of ‘raw milk’ in America?
As Mark McAfee explains, there’s the raw milk intended to be consumed raw, and then there’s the raw milk intended to be used for pasteurization, and contrary to popular belief, they are NOT the same.
When buying raw milk, it’s very important to make sure you’re buying milk that has been produced with the intention of being consumed raw, and not just raw milk from conventionally-raised cows that hasn’t gone through the pasteurization process yet.
There’s a vast difference between the quality and safety of milk from organically-raised, grass-fed cows, and conventionally-raised, grain-fed livestock.
How Can You Identify High-Quality Sources of Raw Milk?
Right now, only six states permit the retail sale of raw milk:
  1. California
  2. Connecticut
  3. Maine
  4. Pennsylvania
  5. Washington
  6. Arizona
However, it’s important to realize that each state sets their own standards. California, specifically, has its own special set of standards for raw milk for human consumption, in which farmers must meet or exceed pasteurized milk standards, without pasteurizing.
You can find raw milk retailers in California by using the store locator available at www.OrganicPastures.com, and for other areas, check out the Campaign for Real Milk Web site.
You can also look here to find out the legal status of raw milk in the U.S. state or country where you live.
However, since many raw milk producers are very small farms, and the standards that do exist vary from state to state, how do you go about identifying solid, high-quality producers of raw milk if you can’t just buy it in a store nearby?
This is a complex question since the environmental conditions will vary from location to location, and from season to season. However, there are a few general conditions you should look for, including:
  • Low pathogenic bacteria count (ie does the farmer test his milk regularly for pathogens?)
  • The milk is quickly chilled after milking
  • The milk comes from cows raised naturally, in accordance with the seasons
  • The cows are mainly grass-fed
  • The cows are not given antibiotics and growth hormones to increase milk production
  • Cows are well cared for
If you’re thinking about purchasing milk from a small farmer, it would be very wise to visit the farm in person. Look around and ask questions, such as:
  1. Does the farmer and his family drink the milk themselves?
  2. How long has he been producing raw milk?
  3. Are the cows clean?
  4. What conditions are the cows raised in?
  5. Are there any obvious sanitation questions?
If a cow is covered in filth and manure, stinks, is wet and cold and doesn’t look particularly comfortable, that could be a warning sign that her milk is less than ideal for raw consumption.
Only Healthy Grass-Fed Cows Produce Healthy Raw Milk
Naturally, fresh grasses for foraging are not available year round in many areas of the US, so it’s also important to take a look at what the cows are being fed during winter months. According to McAfee, acceptable winter feed includes dried alfalfa, timothy grass, and other cut pasture or forage that has been dried.
A key point to remember is that cows that are fed a lot of grain and raised under substandard conditions will likely produce milk that is unhealthy to drink raw because grains, antibiotics, growth hormones, and filthy living conditions change the pH balance and the natural bacteria present in her gut, which in turn affects the natural bacteria and pathogens present in her milk.
This is particularly problematic because so many Americans have depressed immune function, leaving any pathogen introduced into your gut free to wreak havoc.
Says McAfee:
“So, as an American citizen going out and finding raw milk, if you have a depressed immune system there is an exceptional challenge there, whereas somebody who is searching out raw milk in California, who has been on raw milk before and their immune system is in pretty good shape, it’s less of a problem.
But if you got a really depressed immune system and… find some bad milk from somebody who is intending their milk to be pasteurized… that’s kind of a marriage made in hell. That’s not a good thing at all.
And that’s where I think a lot of the outbreaks happen.
You see people doing research on the internet saying, “Oh, I have a really depressed immune system. I have common cold. I get irritable bowel syndrome. I got asthma. I got allergies. I need to fix that and they say raw milk will fix it.”
But they don’t have raw milk in their area that’s safe. [Milk] that is intended for people, so they go out and find a local dairy that takes pity on them, and they buy raw milk that is intended for pasteurization, and that’s where you start seeing real problems.”
Like McAfee says, “when you work with cows to produce raw milk, you can’t cheat!”
 The Many Health Benefits of Raw Milk
Organically-raised, grass-fed milk naturally contains hundreds of healthy, “good” bacteria, including lactobacillus and acidophilus. There are also several coliform families of bacteria. It’s important to realize that there are over 230 different kinds of E. coli., and only two or three of them are actually pathogenic and will cause you to get sick. The rest are actually beneficial for your gut.
Raw milk also contains vitamins, which are virtually eliminated by the pasteurization process of commercial milk. But it’s the presence of beneficial bacteria are what make raw milk such an outstanding food source to promote the growth of healthy bacteria in your intestine, which in turn has a significant, beneficial impact on your overall immune function.
Other health promoting ingredients in raw milk include:
  • Valuable enzymes that are destroyed during pasteurization. Without them, milk is very difficult to digest. So if you have lactose intolerance, it may very well disappear once you start consuming raw dairy products. It also contains phosphatase, an enzyme that aids and assists in the absorption of calcium in your bones, and lipase enzyme, which helps to hydrolyze and absorb fats.
    Enzymes are deactivated when you get above 120 degrees. By the time you get to 150, 160 degrees, almost all of them are completely inactivated, which is why you will not get ANY of these benefits from pasteurized milk.
  • Natural butterfat, which is homogenized or removed in pasteurized milk. Without butterfat, it becomes very difficult for your body to absorb and utilize the vitamins and minerals in the water fraction of the milk. Butterfat is also your best source of preformed vitamin A, and contains re-arranged acids with strong anti-carcinogenic properties.
  • Healthy unoxidized cholesterol
  • Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), which fights cancer and may help reduce your body fat.
  • High omega-3 and low omega-6 ratios, which is the beneficial ratio between these two essential fats
Pasteurizing milk, on the other hand, destroys enzymes, diminishes vitamins, denatures fragile milk proteins, destroys vitamin B12 and vitamin B6, kills beneficial bacteria, and actually promotes pathogens.
In my opinion, there’s no reason to drink pasteurized milk, ever.
Unfortunately, the FDA and other health agencies do not acknowledge the inherent differences between pasteurized milk and raw milk.
They claim raw milk and pasteurized milk have precisely the same kind of nutritional values, completely disregarding the value of enzymes, the probiotic value of beneficial bacteria, and the importance of healthy fats.
It truly is imperative to recognize that nutrition is a holistic thing.
You cannot take bits and pieces of nutrients and think you’re going to end up with good health. It is in fact the food as a whole that makes it good for you in terms of nutrition.
Says McAfee:
“When you look at the complete assessment of food, raw milk is a rock star when it comes to dietary meaningfulness.”
I agree with McAfee when he says that hopefully, someday, the FDA will come around and acknowledge the fact that we should look at the whole of the food instead of just pieces of the food. Right now, their assessments on most foods are partial and woefully incomplete, and unfortunately, this is having a major, detrimental impact on your health.
Should Humans Drink Cow’s Milk?
Some people believe that cow’s milk is food for calves only, and should not be consumed by humans to begin with.
However, this may be too simplified a view. As McAfee explains:
“Cows have four stomachs, so they can eat grass… They are literally that animal between us and the sun. They are solar sun convertors. They take sunshine expressed as grass on the ground (because the grass obviously grows when the sun hits the ground and [with] water the grass grows).
We can’t eat the grass but the cow can eat the grass, and then we can eat what the cow provides… [which] is very, very nutrient dense and very digestible by humans.”
I believe that’s an important point, and it’s an area of nutrition that few pay any attention to -- the area of biophotons.
But biophoton research explains the underlying principles of why it’s so vital to eat a diet of mostly RAW food, including raw milk.
As you know, without the sun it is virtually impossible for most life forms to exist. For example, we now know that without appropriate sun exposure, you will become deficient in vitamin D, which will have very far ranging consequences for your health.
Vitamin D influences at least 2,000-3,000 genes (that we know of), and without sufficient amounts of vitamin D, your body becomes susceptible to a staggering amount of diseases. But you can absorb sun energy via your food as well as through your skin (although this should not be confused with being able to alter your vitamin D status).
Every living organism emits biophotons or low-level luminescence, and the higher the level of light a cell emits, the greater its vitality and the potential for the transfer of that energy to the individual who eats it.
Hence, the more light a food is able to store, the more nutritious it is. Naturally grown fresh vegetables, for example, and sun-ripened fruits, are rich in light energy.
The capacity to store biophotons is therefore a measure of the quality of your food, and a very strong reason for making sure milk producing cows are allowed to forage for the healthiest, freshest grasses.
 

Katie Strand again...
I hope this helps to inform anyone out there curious about raw milk and why I've been so enthusiastically posting about it and drinking it for the last year and a half, and what I drank as a child post-breast-feeding. I didn't even realize that I drank raw milk as a kid until I met Marcus and he told me he only drinks or eats raw dairy and animal products (from pasture-raised, organically-fed animals). When he told me that, a light-bulb lit up in my head. I told him, I think I drank raw milk as a child. I called my parents to ask them and sure-enough, the farm we used to visit once a week to get milk when we were children sold us raw, grass-fed milk. Both of my parents were into feeding our family healthy, wholesome, and natural diet, but my mother read Weston Price's book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects, and in addition to growing up in a home where meals were home-cooked, Price's book convinced my mother that raw milk, and a diet consisting of foods closest to their natural state was the way to go for herself and her children.

Please post your comments. For those of you who are lactose intolerant, the above information from Mercola helps to shed some light on that, and I was lactose intolerant once I started drinking pasteurized milk around age 8 or 10 (the farm where my parents got their raw milk closed and my mom relaxed on some of her health practices - she's back on raw milk now and doing fantastic), but I have no issues with raw milk and dairy and I feel better than ever physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Plus my hair and skin look better than ever. My hair is shinier and thicker than ever (I'm told it's because of the healthy fats I'm getting from the raw milk, cream and butter - it helps protect the hair shaft better than any hair treatment ever could-from the inside out!), and it's not just my imagination! I have strangers commenting on my hair - asking what diet or supplements I take because my hair is shiny. Proof's in the shiny hair, I guess. Anyway, try it and let me know how it goes.

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Sunday, May 2, 2010

The 15 Things that Pasteurization Kills



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I used to think I was lactose intolerant. Turns out I was just pasteurization intolerant. You might discover you are too after reading the following article by Mark McAfee. Check it out. This is especially great for anyone unsure about the real difference between raw and pasteurized dairy. Please share the link to this blog with anyone you think might be interested, and as always, weigh-in below in the comments.
The 15 Things that Pasteurization Kills

by Mark McAfee
Tragically, pasteurization has killed much more than TB and Typhoid in the1800’s and covers up much more than the filth of the distillery dairy in down town Boston in 1875. Pasteurization has had massive and tragic side effects. These side effects have been ignored by the FDA and down played by industry. To accept the facts would be a surrender to a 100 Years' War indiscriminately waged against all bacteria. A 100 year war that has now turned to attack the immune system of the American that it was thought to protect. 
The FDA, instead of fighting germs, is now killing Americans.

And pasteurization has killed much more than a few bad bugs…it is killing the foundation of America.
 Here are the top 15 things that Pasteurization has killed that the FDA and Big Dairy industry refuses to acknowledge or discuss. To do so would be to surrender and to invite a marketing disaster. These are the origins of why the FDA and Big Dairy Ag processors fight desperately to suppress the American raw milk uprising and the truth that it speaks.
  1. Pasteurization has killed the family farm, jobs and the American
    Dream     by replacing responsibly produced clean raw milk with “filth
    excusing pasteurization” which allows dirty milk to be sold as clean milk.

    The prices now paid for raw milk that is sent to be pasteurized is so low
    that it does not cover the cost of production. There is nothing that a farmer
    can do to increase the milk price in this system. His work is for nothing
    and he is desperate. For every load of raw milk that he sends off he sends
    more and more of his farm equity and his blood sweat and tears.

    Pasteurization does not create clean milk it just kills filthy milk.
  2. Pasteurization has killed the dairy markets.   

    Twenty to 50% of the American population do not drink pasteurized milk
    because of either mal-digestion or lactose intolerance, but yet those same
    Americans can drink raw milk because it is whole with all of the enzymes
    and beneficial bacteria present.

    America has become pasteurization intolerant. Only 14% of CAFO fluid
    milk produced in California is actually ever bottled for fluid use….most
    gets made into dried powdered milk or processed cheeses.

    Today truck loads of milk intended to be pasteurized is dumped down the
    drain and is never processed. This is the absolute proof of the disconnect
    between consumer and farmer. The farmer does not even know what
    becomes of his food and or how much to produce.
     
  3. Pasteurization killed “the connection between the farmer and the consumer”.

    Some farmers that produce pasteurized milk have no-trespassing signs at
    the edges of their property that say….”Trespassers will be shot and
    survivors will be shot again”.

    They have no reason to visit with a consumer about selling their dairy
    products. They get paid by a processor, not a consumer. All of their fluid
    milk is sold off to a common processing plant to be commingled with all
    other dairy milk in a commodity market system.

    The farmer now has no idea that he is “over producing” and making the
    wrong products. The farmer has no idea that people do not drink
    pasteurized milk because of lactose intolerance. If the farmer could ever
    talk with a consumer….they would not do what they are over-doing.
  4. Pasteurization kills farmers.  

    In January, dairy farmer Dean Pierson of Copake New York entered his
    barn with his rifle and plenty of ammunition, killed all 51 of his precious
    milk cows, then tragically took his own life.

    There have been many suicides of dairymen in the last two years with two
    in California last year. The incidence of dairyman suicides follows the
    prices paid for pasteurized milk in the heartless disconnected pasteurized
    dairy market system.

    When prices fall, suicides rise. This is because there is absolutely nothing
    that a dairyman can do to change the market price by working harder to
    sell better tasting or higher quality milk.

    The pasteurizer has covered-up and masked all of these possible value
    added possibilities. He gets what he gets and that more often than not… is
    an economic roller coaster ride from FDA CAFO hell.

    The universities tell the next generation to “get big or get out” and provide
    no classes on value added ideas to break away from the “Milk Pool” and
    the PMO. There is no hope.

    The far better message is “get green, get clean, get local, and get
    consumer connected”.

    A university professor speaking these words would be like… “entering a
    Catholic Church and screaming There Is No God in the middle of Sunday
    morning mass.” Grants are given to Universities to study and support
    claims from Monsanto and antibiotic manufacturers for Big Dairy. The
    fastest way for a professor to be removed is to object to Big Dairy projects.
    The result, all of the dairymen’s sons and daughters are taught to “get big
    or get out.” The next well-educated generation has no hope either.
  5.  Pasteurization killed Antibiotic effectiveness for all of us.  

    By creating a commodity dairy market system that relies heavily on
    antibiotics, fed in feed at CAFO Mega dairies to support massive milk
    production, the antibiotics now used in American hospitals for humans no
    longer work.

    Tens of thousands of Americans now die each year because of superbugs
    created by CAFO antibiotic abuse.

    MRSA and VRA drug resistance is now a major cause of death and there
    are fewer and sometimes no antibiotics left to kill the bad bugs and save
    real human lives. The FDA refuses to ban or limit use of antibiotics in
    CAFO’s feed and instead testifies for the CAFO industry (Senator Dean
    Florez SB 362 Sac CA in 2009).
  6. Pasteurization killed the digestibility of milk and its delicious milky reputation.  

    Now milk is no longer a food with a good reputation and the dairymen do
    not even know it. It causes or triggers gas cramps, allergies, diarrhea,
    asthma attacks, mucus production, constipation, gastric cramping and so
    called “Lactose Intolerance”.

    This has caused the dairy industry to lose many consumers to SoyMilk,
    RiceMilk, AlmondMilk and even HempMilk. None of these fake milks come
    from mammalian animals with teats.

    The dairy industry did this to themselves because the processing industry
    runs the dairy industry. A processor loves a dairyman in desperation. It
    allows for dirt cheap pricing….and so what if the processor does not bottle
    milk. The dairy processor can bottle water, soy milk, rice milk, almond milk
    or hemp milk. All the processor cares about is processing “throughput”.

    Last year, the processors spoke about the new emerging dairy product
    category called… “branded bottled water”. Dairymen have not spent
    enough time in the market and have delegated to the “processors” the
    most important thing that they can do….connect to consumers and tell the
    consumer their story and listen to feedback.  Now the fat Fox has eaten
    their chickens.
  7. Pasteurization has ruined our water supplies.

    Whereever a mega dairy CAFO is located there are huge lagoons. These
    manure and chemical filled lagoons often leach into underground aquifers.
    It is nearly impossible to keep these lagoons from leaching into the
    underground water supplies. The best new technologies do protect from
    leaching but their plastic or rubber lined lagoons are extremely costly and
    older dairies are not required to install them.
  8. Pasteurization has damaged our air quality. 

    Cows that are kept in CAFO system confinement and fed huge amounts of
    grain produce massive amounts of methane gas. These gasses are not
    good for air quality, earth health, cow health or human health or the dairy
    industry reputation for stinking downwind.

    Some dairies now capture this methane gas as a resource to be sold for
    energy. 99.9% of dairies do not. There are 1.9 million cows in CA that live
    on 1800 dairies. Few of these dairies use pastures to feed their cows
    (nearly none), aside from a few organic dairies.

    When cows are fed pasture, their production of methane gas is a minute
    fraction of what is produced in CAFO systems. Pastures also allow the
    sequestration of carbon and recycling of manure directly back to living
    plant-life.  Really good for the cows and the earth. 
  9. Pasteurization has killed individual responsibility for milk quality and even how the dairy looks.

    When no one cares about how the dairy looks because no one ever
    comes to visit…the dairy can start to look pretty darn horrible. Calves in
    dirty hutches, cows deep in manure, nothing painted, nothing clean and
    nothing green.

    The milk quality will not matter either. It is customary that a dairyman with
    poor quality milk just adds some chlorine bleach to the bulk tank to kill the
    bacteria and pass the inspectors test sample.

    This is something that the “consumer connected” raw milk dairymen would
    never ever do.

    Some pasteurized milk producers would never do this either. However,
    that does not matter….his good milk gets commingled with all the other
    milks and his individual quality is now irrelevant.
  10. Pasteurized milk kills jobs and is economically, nutritionally and socially killing America.  

    In Economics 1A….the first thing the professor says is that all new money
    in our American economy is created at the start of the food chain with
    mining, fishing and farming.

    America has outsourced much of its food chain to China and other
    unwatched places and with that, all the beginnings of new money to
    excite, stimulate, locally feed and fund America is gone.

    Whenever raw milk is produced and consumed for human consumption,
    life springs forth, there are jobs and there are healthy happy cows and
    people.

    Raw milk brings new immune strength, new economic life in the economy
    and new hope for a better world. Consumers give farmers feedback about
    flavor and animal treatment. Pastures are green and farmers are well paid
    and loved.
  11. Pasteurized milk kills asthma sufferers and as a result doctors prescribe a diet without pasteurized dairy products.  

    Milk triggers asthma by destabilizing MAST cells that release histamines
    that cause inflammation, mucus production and bronchial spasm.
    Pasteurized milk is a partial food product that is missing digestive
    enzymes and nearly all of its beneficial bacteria.
    Pasteurized milk (with rare exceptions) comes from cows fed a ration
    based on corn not pastures and forage. This changes the fatty acid
    profiles. These corn based fatty acids have low omega 3 and high 6 and
    no CLA.

    These are the bad cholesterols found in the American diets today.

    Raw milk is the opposite and heals and prevents asthma by stabilizing
    MAST cells and reducing inflammation as shown by dramatic lowering of
    “C reactive protein levels”.

    Raw milk rebuilds immunity by allowing the safe consumption of
    biodiversity in our diets. These bacteria then re-colonize the gut and
    become our immune protective and digestive ecosystem armies.
  12.  Pasteurized milk kills bone density.

    It has long been known by doctors that low fat pasteurized milk is a real
    problem when considering bone density and osteoporosis.

    The test for pasteurization is called the negative Alpha Phosphatase test.
    When milk has been heated to 165 degrees and pasteurization is
    complete the enzyme phosphatase is 100% destroyed.

    Guess what….this is the enzyme that is critical to the absorption of
    minerals and calcium!!

    Raw milk contains as its third highest level of enzyme the phosphatase
    enzyme and those people that drink raw milk enjoy increases in bone
    density.
  13. Pasteurization killed scientific integrity in America.  

    The FDA and the dairy industry have begun to loose all credibility for
    integrity in science and telling the truth to Americans as a direct result of
    protecting industrialization and its market sectors.

    Now it is a matter of fact that the FDA refuses to be quoted and
    interviewed in Raw Milk and food documentaries that expose the lies and
    deception.

    The FDA refuses to acknowledge their own NIH websites that make
    reference to the missing beneficial bacteria in our diets that historically
    have come from Kefirs and “Ancient” milk.

    ‘Ancient milk’ is politically correct FDA lingo for ‘raw milk prior to
    pasteurization’. Instead, the FDA makes war on all bacteria through their
    sterilized, anti-life, pro-drug concept of health. Universities will not study
    raw milk because of the pasteurization protective grant systems put into
    place by corporate America and Monsanto.
  14. Pasteurization kills cows and green pastures.

    Seventy-five years ago, there were friendly cows on green pastures all
    over America. Pasteurization has effectively paved the pastures and now
    forces the cows to be fed soy protein concentrates and 40 pounds of grain
    per day along with antibiotics and hormones.

    These CAFO dairy feeds increase milk production to numbers never seen
    before in the history of earth. It is not uncommon for some CAFO dairy
    cows to produce 150 pounds of milk per day (20 gallons) and be crowded
    into pens deep in manure with thousands of other cows.

    The stress of being milked up to four times per day and laying in artificial
    rubber beds shortens their lives to just 40 months.

    A cow on pastures will produce much less milk (4-5 gallons per day) and
    live ten years or more, easily, in true happiness and health.

    Raw milk from pasture-raised cows is rich in beneficial fatty acids,
    beneficial bacteria, rare and essential enzymes and CLA something that
    CAFO cows cannot brag about.

    None of the CAFO raw milk can be used for human raw milk consumption.
    It contains the wrong kinds of bacteria and must be pasteurized.

    Pastures, natural feed and sunlight are critical to the safety of raw milk.
    There is no fooling or tricking mother nature. Raw milk producers make a
    pact with nature not war against her.
  15. Pasteurization is racist.  

    The dairy industry time and time again claims that if you are black or if you
    are Asian that you have a deficiency. You have something wrong with you.

    The fact of the matter is that the Maasai in Africa and the Chinese outer
    Mongolians have drunk raw milk for thousands of years….without Lactose
    intolerance. There are virtually no human babies on earth that reject their
    own mother’s breast milk. That breast milk is raw milk. The same goes for
    nearly all grown or growing humans.

    All people can drink raw milk if given a chance because the enzymes and
    lactase producing bacteria that re-colonize the gut are found in raw milk.

    Raw milk is food for all people. It is color blind unlike pasteurized milk
    produced by corporations seeking answers to the deficiencies found in
    their processed dead partial milk.

    What people are is “Pasteurization Intolerant”.   











But, there’s still hope. 
Pasteurized milk did not, however, kill the will of a small group of pioneering farmers and their consumers to fight and expose the truth.
This brings great news….Raw Milk for humans is the solution and has exactly the opposite effect on farmers, the cows, the earth, the consumer.
Raw Milk is now rapidly emerging as a farmer to consumer connected market.
Things had to get really shockingly bad for the people and the farmers to see what really bad was.
Now new life comes forth and there is new hope and health and it is local and it is grass roots. It will not be easy….the FDA and Big Dairy will fight to protect what they took from us, the earth and the cows for the last 100 years.
Keep your cameras ready and blog the truth of your raw milk experiences.
Nothing like a little truth therapy to bring some light into the darkness of the last 100 years of lies and false promise. Not to mention serious gas cramps and diarrhea.
Good riddance to dead milk and the FDA 100 Years' War against all bacteria.
We must stop thinking that killing everything will make us well. Our immune systems depend on biodiversity and the wholeness of our foods and so does our social conscience and everything else good on God's green earth.

 I thought this was informative and while sometimes rabbel-rousing, still really good to know, since a lot of this stuff falls under the radar of most non-farm folks.
Enjoy & leave comments!




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