"The udder truth"
By Hannah Wallace
" Raw milk really is a wonder tonic, say devotees, who meet secretly to buy it and swear it reverses chronic diseases. But is it safe to drink? The official word: No."
Thank God that "the official word" is not the final word on the truth of raw milk!
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/01/19/raw_milk/index.html
"... Perhaps even more convincing is the argument, made by raw milk advocates, that safe raw milk must come from grass-fed cows. That distinction, too, is ignored on the FDA's Web site, in remarks that Sheehan made last May to Ohio's House Agriculture Committee, and in his anti-raw-milk PowerPoint presentation. Cows, like all other ruminants, are meant to eat grass. Yet, at the vast majority of U.S. dairies -- even organic ones -- cows subsist on corn feed. In "The Omnivore's Dilemma," Pollan explains how eating a high-starch diet acidifies a cow's rumen, making the animal sick and eventually allowing bacteria to enter its bloodstream. A cow's corn diet can also make us sick: E. coli O157:H7 has been around only since the early '80s, when it likely evolved in the acidic guts of corn-fed cattle. (E. coli O157:H7 is so lethal because human stomachs, too, are acidic. We can kill off microbes that evolve in the neutral pH of a grass-fed cow's rumen, but not the acid-resistant strains such as E. coli O157:H7.) Grass-fed cows also produce milk that is intrinsically more nutritious: Whole milk, butter and cream from grass-fed cows contain conjugated linoleic acid, an omega-6 fat that has been shown to inhibit breast, skin, stomach and colon cancers. (CLA is found in both raw and pasteurized grass-fed milk -- it does not appear to be damaged by pasteurization.) ..."
Cheers to the truth of real milk for real people!
Chef Jem
Executive Producer:
"The Raw Milk Controversy: Fact & Fiction"
See four video clips at:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ChefJem33&p=r
In the row of 4 icons the 4th is part 1, the 2nd is prt. 2, the 1st is prt. 3
and the 3rd is prt. 1 of chapter 2.
http://chefjem.stumbleupon.com/
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1081224
http://yoursovereignhealth.blogspot.com/
http://yoursovereignhealth.blogspot.com/
"The Raw Milk Controversy: Fact & Fiction" DVD is available directly from the producer, yours truly, by contacting:
Chef Jem: "chef at these truths dot com"
Uploaded a fourth video clip at YouTube. All four clips are displayed as icons in a row at:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ChefJem33&p=r
In the row of 4 icons the 4th is part 1, the 2nd is prt. 2, the 1st is prt. 3
and the 3rd is prt. 1 of chapter 2.
More on Goldsmith:
http://www.edwardgoldsmith.com/key46.html
Food hygiene:
2003-12-00 Are small food producers responsible for the food poisoning epidemic? - this talk was broadcast at various dates during December 2003 on the World Business Report programme of the BBC World Service, as part of a series of six talks by Edward Goldsmith.
2001-06-00 Unhygienic? Or just small scale? - an article for The Doomsday Funbook (Jon Carpenter Books, February 2006), written in June 2001. "Throughout the world today governments, in accordance with WTO legislation, are imposing costly installations on small food producers on the premise that their activities are not hygienic, which few can afford and which thereby pushes many of them out of business", yet "it is the big intensive food producers, not the small ones, that are responsible for the epidemic of food poisoning and, probably, for the growing incidence of other diseases as well."
2001-06-00 Unhygienic - or just small-scale? (short version) - this essay explores the way in which food hygiene regulations are pushing small, safe, traditional high quality food producers out of business by imposing inappropriate and wildly expensive requirements - while industrial food producers reap the benefits.
2001-06-00 Killing off small farms in Brazil - Jose Lutzenberger tells Teddy Goldsmith about the regulatory obstacles he faces on his organic farm in Rio Grande do Sul. Published in The Ecologist Report, June 2001.
2001-06-00 Unhygienic - or just small-scale? (long version) - first published in The Ecologist Special Report June 2001. Republished in Rivista di Biologia (Biology Forum) Vol. 94 No. 3, September / December 2001 pp. 511-533. This essay explores the way in which food hygiene regulations are pushing small, safe, traditional high quality food producers out of business by imposing inappropriate and wildly expensive requirements - while industrial food producers reap the benefits.
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Executive Producer:
"The Raw Milk Controversy: Fact & Fiction"
See two five-minute video clips at:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheRawMilkControversyFactFiction
and a ten-minute clip at:
http://www.archive.org/details/RawMilkControversyChapter1Prt2
http://chefjem.stumbleupon.com/
http://rawmilkcontroversy.weebly.com/
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1081224
http://yoursovereignhealth.blogspot.com/
Just discovered this in my current search re Pasteur & pasteurization history.
"Another serious consideration is that our indigenous microbiota protect us in different ways against potential pathogens. Thus, the elimination of the natural microbiota following the pasteurisation of milk creates a sterile and hence a highly hygienic medium that could not be more vulnerable to colonisation by a potential pathogen. Raw milk on the other hand harbours a large number of different micro-organisms providing only a small niche for the potential pathogenic invader to occupy, as do the various ecosystems that are internal to the human organism such as that of the mouth or the gut."
http://www.edwardgoldsmith.com/page14.html
Uploaded a new ten-minute video clip of "The Raw Milk Controversy: Fact & Fiction".
Search: "Raw Milk Controversy Fact & Fiction" and find several Internet video locations including YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikcYjBSe6fA
and at the Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/RawMilkControversyChapter1Prt2
where they allow downloads as well!
DVDs are now available!
Contact Chef Jem for details:
chef at thesetruths.com
Cheers!
Chef Jem
Executive Producer:
"The Raw Milk Controversy: Fact & Fiction"
See two five-minute video clips at:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheRawMilkControversyFactFiction
and a ten-minute clip at:
http://www.archive.org/details/RawMilkControversyChapter1Prt2
http://chefjem.stumbleupon.com/
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1081224
Raw Milk is the issue of this Blog, however it is the dairy farmers who are really the heart of all of this!
Whether one buys their milk from a market or direct from the source, milk, for the most part, requires a farmer to make it all happen. The only other way to get milk is to have your own animal and milk her yourself. How many of us are going to do that nowadays?
The closest we can get to that is to get a milk or "cow" share and then possibly volunteer some occasional milking support. All in all most of us who are enjoying milk in any form have every reason to be grateful for the farmer/s who made it possible for the milk to flow and to reach us! And when we love milk (in all of it's wonderful forms) as much as we do then it can be easy for us to send some of our love to those who are loving their animals as well as the pastures that feed those animals!
I am now inspired to offer "The Raw Milk Controversy: Fact & Fiction" DVD to dairy farmers who want to sell it to their customers. What better location could there be for spreading the word about raw milk? The vision I have now as that each dairy farmer could have DVDs specially made for their use, i.e. the DVD could be printed with the farms contact information. I could provide this personalized printing process by acquiring a DVD duplicator and label maker (just as soon as there are sufficient orders). I invite all raw milk providers who are interested in possibly having personalized DVDs to contact me: chef at thesetruths.com
Chef Jem
Executive Producer:
"The Raw Milk Controversy: Fact & Fiction"
at: http://www.archive.org/details/TheRawMilkControversyFactFiction
http://curezone.com/blogs/f.asp?f=1452
http://chefjem.stumbleupon.com/
"Just got the video and already we've put it to work with our farm helpers. We had a new guy here last week and when he saw the raw milk on the table at lunch, he blanched and asked if we had any pasteurized store-bought milk. He even asked if raw milk was 'bad for you.'
So I handed him the 'Raw Milk Controversy: Fact and Fiction' DVD with a smile. I told him to take a break and watch this DVD and then tell me the answer to that question. He came back downstairs an hour later with a completely different attitude! Great work you've done on making this whole issue easier to understand. "
Jacqueline Freeman
Friendly Haven Rise Farm
An extensive list of links regarding raw milk!:
http://reliableanswers.com/a/?/Health/Natural
Under "Dairy".
From The Weston A. Price Foundation
Date: Jan 28, 2008 7:58 PM
UPDATE ON CALIFORNIA RAW MILK SITUATION
"There has been a lot of confusion about the situation in California and several members emailed us after contacting the California Assembly Appropriations Committee, in response to our last update, to tell us that the favorable raw milk bill AB 1604 was not on the docket as we had reported.
Unbeknownst to us, Assemblywoman Parra, the sponsor of AB 1604, pulled the bill before it went to the Appropriations Committee. Nicole got the message that the bill would be defeated because of the concerted backdoor effort by Big Dairy and the medical society lobby interests.
AB 1604 is now dead and AB 1735, which stipulates a virtually un-achievable coliform level, remains in full force and effect. However, Nicole Parra has formed a "blue ribbon" panel to research the issue of raw milk coliforms and pathogens and it sounds like it will be stacked with pro-raw milk advocates and scientists. The blue ribbon committee will then make a recommendation to the Assembly Agriculture Committee about standards for a new raw milk bill that will protect California raw milk producers and consumers.
After 600 passionate raw milk consumers filled the assembly Ag Committee chambers, AB 1604 standards became a political "hot button." In order to pass the Assembly and the Senate, more research needed to be done. Nicole Parra has promised to introduce a raw milk bill that incorporates the recommendations of the blue ribbon committee.
Meanwhile, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CFDA) came out to Organic Pastures last week on January 24th and pulled a sample from the bulk tank and from a bottle. The dairy met the bacteria limit in the bulk tank with an SPC of 2000 and coliforms of 8 but failed the test at the bottle. However, some of the samples they took from creamery inventory were from older "returned" product that was intended to be fed to their calves. Even though the calf milk area is labeled as such, the creamery is now locking that product behind a chain link cage to prohibit this from happening again.
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is preparing legal action in the light of these developments. We will keep you posted as events unfold.
Raw milk continues to be sold from both Claravale and Organic Pastures Dairy. The next possible CDFA test will occur in late February. The important thing to understand is that a producer must fail three out of five tests. And then...a degrade just stops production for less than two days. During that period, test samples can then clear the milk for continued sales and then the producer is back to the clean plate of zero out of five and can fail another three times and that takes another three months. What is happening is a game of bacterial cat and mouse with your food. It is harassment of your California raw milk producers. Coliforms are beneficial bacteria and the tests mean literally nothing except to confirm that we are being harassed.
This is a fight that will take time to win right. More to come very soon."
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