Re: Family Cow

Posted by Dick on March 13, 2016 at 14:45:21 from (71.38.138.93):

In Reply to: Family Cow posted by John in Md on March 13, 2016 at 12:29:26:

For a few days I've been reading about the subject of raw milk. I was raised on raw milk and sold raw milk for over 30 years. I was never sick because of drinking the milk nor did any of my customers ever complain. I always tried to be very clean about milking and handling the milk. I would always cool the milk as soon as I was finished milking the cows on an old fashioned water cooled plate cooler before the milk went into the gallon jugs. Then the jugs went into a refrigerator and waited for the customers to pick up their milk. I had a friend who worked in a lab at a larger dairy plant test my milk on a few occasions and it was always way above what was required for a grade A dairy. Yes, I was fussy about my milk handling because I wanted to provide the best milk possible to my customers. I would wash and sanitize all my equipment after every milking and sanitize everything before milking. Udders were always washed with an iodine solution before milking. None of the milk was was ever pasturized by my customers and they were always well satisfied with my milk. The milk was always picked up the day it was milked from the cows and didn't sit in the cooler for more than a day.
Anyone who thinks the store bought milk is good stuff needs to do some checking online and read about "ultra pasturized milk". It is ultra pasturized to prolong the shelf life of the milk, if that's what you want to call it. As I've read, it really doesn't even to be refrigerated and it will keep for months. The only reason it's refrigerated in the stores is because we're used to our milk being refrigerated. Many store are now selling milk in boxes on the shelf, not refrigerated but still have the same milk in the coolers.
Most people nowadays drink the watered down milk skim,1% or 2% which is about like drinking water but that's ok of that's what they like.
I'm over 70 years old and still drink the real stuff and seldom have a cold or any kind of other sickness' and oh,, by the way, I don't take any prescription drugs either. Whether or not this has anything to do with the milk I drink or have used all these years, I don't know, but I must be healthy for some reason. I like to believe I have a good immune system built up from the good milk I was raised on.
In my opinion, the dairy industry and government has done a good job of scaring people from drinking raw milk. Back 20 years ago there were at least 4 small dairies selling all the raw milk they could produce, now there are none. Not because no one would buy the milk but because the operators finally retired from milking. Nowadays a few would drink the raw milk but the new generation thinks it's poison.
Oh well, to each his own.
Dick

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