We are not the only people who have discovered the benefits of real, nutrient dense foods. Meet my friends at Foggy Bottom Farms.

Raw Milk is the Best Real Milk

My friend at Foggy Bottom Farms, John Langlois, once told me

"If I had a dollar for every time I have seen a frown when I mentioned drinking fresh milk to one of my friends, I would be wealthy. Rarely have they ever tried it. Most have assimilated a profound prejudice against it because of what they were taught in school about the "benefits of pasteurization". That idea, compounded by the daily germophobic assaults from products like Lysol, have them living in terror that they may somehow come in contact with deadly pathogens."

"Therefore, our first challenge is to help you understand that life is filled with "good bacteria". Yes, good guys. Helpful little critters. You need them. They live inside you."

"In fact, if your body ever killed off all the microscopic creatures that you have a symbiotic relationship with, you would die."

 

"From time to time, we need our food to replenish those bacteria. This lesson was brought home to me in a startling fashion when my grandson's digestive system failed to work properly shortly after his birth. The allopathic doctor said "give him antibiotics" (That must be a mantra of theirs.)

Nothing changed.

My alternative doctor said, "Give him a few rounds of Acidophilus, Bifidobacterium bifidum, Bifidobacterium longum, Intestinal Flora, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, and Saccharomyces boulardii." After 20 minutes with a dictionary I found all those critters in a form we could put in his bottled breast milk. Within two days his stools were normal and I was on a new path of discovery."

Through the work of the Weston A. Price foundation, we discovered that properly collected fresh milk from properly maintained cows was better for me per Dr. Mercola and less likely to make me sick than pasteurized milk. The fact that it was NOT homogenized was an added health bonus.

Looking for a discussion group on the ins and outs of fresh milk?

Visit my friends at the Raw Dairy Discussion group on yahoo.

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The Truth About "Pasteurized Milk"

For over 50 years the large dairy interests in America have worked to promote the idea that "pasteurized" milk is safe milk. They did this for two primary reasons:

1). Pasteurization enabled them to collect and transport milk containing high levels of bacteria from cows with infected udders, because the process would kill the bacteria in the milk.

2). Because pasteurization killed all the bacteria (both good and bad) in the milk, the shelf life was longer. That resulted in higher profits because they did not have to throw out as much spoiled milk.

What they never told you was this was a poor option chosen for profit instead of a better option: clean raw milk from healthy, properly maintained cows.

This option also favored the large, collective dairy over the smaller, local farmer. Again, corporate profit was the deciding factor in selecting this model.

For detailed discussions on how the milk industry evolved into what it is today see Dr. Ron Schmidt's"The Untold Story of Milk" and Dr. William C. Douglass, II, "The Milk Book".

Recently the USDA has allowed the major dairy interests to eviscerate the Organic standards so that their cows need no longer even see a blade grass.