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Originally Posted by Nancy LC
I hate to spark up controversy especially seeing as how this is how you make a living but... I guess if I am going to risk getting a severe case of food poisoning from raw milk I want to have some pretty good evidence that it does all these magical things. I guess I'm still looking for that magical escape clause myself that will make dairy products into something that don't harm me. But to date, I haven't found it.
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I'm curious why you think you'll risk severe food poisoning from raw milk. Even the CDC has to admit, however reluctantly, there is very little risk, compared to say, hamburger, raw spinach, etc etc, and that most of the "raw milk poisoning" cases they love to cite were in fact due to raw suitcase cheeses from Mexico. What else they won't tell you is, that pasteurization is no proof of safety.... many people have become ill or even died from pasteurized dairy, even recently.
I've been drinking raw milk for ten years and have never become ill from it, and have sold it for four years without a single complaint of spoiled or even off-tasting milk. My 82-yo mother has been drinking it for years, even drank it through her chemotherapy last year and did not become sick, especially when her defenses were lowest. And I know of many other farmers who sell raw milk, and they don't ever have complaints either; in fact the demand is growing so fast that many of us are turning away customers because we don't have enough milk. I have a waiting list that keeps growing because I already have as many as I can handle, and adding more animals would cause me to start cutting corners.
But then I have healthy, well-fed animals, as do all the people I know who sell untreated milk. I would never drink, nor ~ever~ recommend drinking, raw milk from a commercial dairy that sells bulk milk intended for pasteurization. Heck, I don't even recommend drinking that stuff even when pasteurized.
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Why is it that dairy seems to be the last hanger-on for people who wish to be more paleo and convince others that dairy can't be a legitimate part of it?
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Probably because we like it and don't wanna give it up! lol
All kidding aside, because I truly believe there has been a lot of misinformation about dairy that keeps getting repeated, mostly due to unhealthy processed dairy, which provokes me to provide a counterbalancing view on the benefits of untreated dairy. Also because I truly believe that properly raised/handled/consumed dairy offers excellent nutrition and health. Most reports of problems and ill-health from commercial dairy are fairly recent, within the last 80 years.... since the advent of mass-raised livestock, in fact, which also applies to mass-produced meat as well.
I guess the question comes down to purity... if you're a purist, then you'll eat what you consider to be pure paleo eating, but then I question eating mass-produced meats. How purist can anyone be anyway who buys meat from Walmart? Isn't there a range of purity?
Why is buying meat from Walmart considered more pure than drinking raw milk?
Not trying to be inflammatory, just offering an alternate view.
Jenny
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