There is a lot of truth in what Dave Rietz (who has passed after a bout with prostate cancer, may God rest his soul) says about milk here. HOWEVER, many of his claims are grossly exaggerated, and laced with half truths. There is most certainly an agenda behind his campaign, an agenda congruent with that of animal rights activists like his friend who writes articles like this:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/628
Yes, there are some nasty horomones in milk, especially the grocery store variety. I don't touch the stuff, ever- not after discovering the harm it can do to your body. This article gives a brief but clear explanation of what pasteurization does to milk, and how it is harmful for your digestive system. Read the section that is italicized.
http://www.foodrenegade.com/the-basics/real-milk/
As far as discovering more in depth the benefits of non-homoginized milk, doing some research on your own will clue you in really fast to it's goodness. :)
I am lucky to have all of the milk I want, straight from my parents cow. Non-homoginized cow milk has many great benefits that outweigh the negatives. Don't let the crazies scare you away from the good milk. :)
Also, I think it's worth mentioning- raw goat's milk has more benefits than cow's milk. If you have a chance to get your hands on some of that, do it! Again, I am blessed to have access to goat's milk because my parents milk the goat every morning and evening as well. :)
Pasteurization is a kind of emergency measure to keep milk safe when conditions
are not clean to start with. But dairies that are approved to sell raw milk have to
keep to a much cleaner standard in the first place -- so you don't have that
problem.
When you drink pasteurized milk, you're drinking all the broken bodies of all the
bacteria that were in the milk, MOST of which were BENEFICIAL bacteria, good
for digestion. Your immune system sees all those broken bodies in the milk after
you drink it, and the alarm bells ring. INTRUDERS! So your automatic defenses
go on high alert to destroy the intruders. This makes for other problems in health.
When you drink raw milk, however, none of those reactions happen, and you get
all of the benefits of the beneficial bacteria, like what you pay extra for in
probiotics. Even people who are "lactose intolerant" have found that it isn't the
milk, but the battlefield debris of pasteurized milk that gives them the reaction.
Most lactose intolerant people can drink raw milk just fine. When I was a child, I
was allergic, and one of the food items was milk. My parents started getting raw
milk and my problems with milk disappeared.
It really ought to be called pasteurized milk intolerant.There are only two farms in California allowed to sell raw milk:
Claravale,
http://claravaledairy.com/ 33320 Panoche Road
Paicines, CA 95043
Phone: (831) 628-3219
Email: info@claravaledairy.com
and
Organic Pastures,
http://oganicpastures.com/ 7221 South Jameson Avenue
Fresno, CA 93706
559-846-9732
carolina.m@organicpastures.com
Other states have other dairies, but some states have no raw milk available,
strangely. One of them is Texas, which makes absolutely no sense to me.
But across the board, apparently raw cottage cheese is utterly contraband.
Any dairy caught selling it goes out of business right now. You can make it
for your own, personal consumption, but you can't sell it. Very big no-no.
The authorities come down so hard on raw cottage cheese you'd think it was
literally worse than heroin. But it's the most delicious natural food you'll ever
taste. I'm sure certain elites get all the raw cottage cheese they can eat.
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