Re: Raw milk debate below. What are the odds of harm???

Posted by jackinok on March 05, 2012 at 07:39:31 from (162.58.82.136):

In Reply to: Raw milk debate below. What are the odds of harm??? posted by JDseller on March 04, 2012 at 11:44:45:

my opinion for what its worth,IF you have good healthy cows,theres little chance of getting sick from raw milk,never has been.BUT its very very easy to pass along some sickness from a sick cow. That normaly happens to the very young or elderly,but it can and does happen. Most folks know this and dump milk from a obviously sick cow. The REAL problem comes in when you have a cow getting sick, that 24-36 hours where one has a sickness and its just not apparent. To me, and ive drank milk both ways,the reason you dont see as much sickness these days from drinking raw milk as what happened when i was a youngster ,comes directly from better overall herd health. Most dairy cattle today are way different animals than the old jersey we would walk out and milk in the middle of the pasture somewhere, that was eating anything that turned green. Add in the fact that we couldnt keep milk,we had no refrigeration to speak of,and the chances of a sickness went way up. When we milked when i was a youngster we hauled the cream (we sold the cream not milk) to the creamery every day,if we couldnt get to the creamery for some reason,such as weather etc,we dumped the milk and cream on the ground. Lots of farmers still used the old cold water seperation method or those without simply let their milk set and seperate and then skim it off.Lots if they had a stream or a horse tank would simply put their milk cans in a stream or horse tank to cool it and make it seperate faster.all these things did as much to increase the chances of contaminated milk than about anything else. Today we dont see as much sickness simply because the milk comes from healthy cows ,directly into clean tanks ,held at cool temps and transported in clean trucks.Quite simply the way milk is treated on the farmis a far cry from what it was,and that is the major factor. Your simply starting with a better ,cleaner,more safe product to start with.Paturizing,and homogenizing milk is not a bad thing.many folks,and probably most these days have never had anything else. It makes milk and its byproducts safe to set on a shelf in a market and extends its usefull life way beyond what i grew up with.But the best thing is it enables folks who normally wouldnt have any access at all,the ability to have it.

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