News Flash: Non-pasteurized cow's milk is a health hazard
That's the official stance of many state health departments,
anyway, including the one in that most dairy-fied of states,
Wisconsin. In fact, buying, selling, or even giving away such
"raw" milk is now illegal in around half of all U.S. states. And
it probably won't be long before there's a Federal law against
it, too.
But wait a minute, here: If raw milk is so bad for us, how did
the human race ever survive before pasteurization? After all,
we've been milking cows and drinking down the creamy,
nutrient-rich results for thousands of years - yet Louis
Pasteur's process (which was originally designed to prevent beer
spoilage, mind you) has only been in widespread use for a little
more than a century. So what gives?
The answer, of course, is that non-pasteurized milk isn't
hazardous at all. It's just a lot tougher to regulate and make
money from.
Think about it: By legislating against the sale or distribution
of raw milk, states force farmers to sell said milk (at a
fraction of market value, by the way) to the big milk
processors. This creates a "paper trail" on the milk, which can
then be used as the basis for collecting tax revenue from those
processors - and likely the farmers, too. From a dollars and
cents perspective, this approach is a lot easier and more
lucrative than trying to tax the sale of non-pasteurized milk
from a thousand different roadside milk stands.
And how else could they get away with this kind of shameless
money-grubbing except under the guise of a public health
concern? It's just one more example of how your healthy, natural
dietary options are being sold down the river by a bunch of
dollar-crazed bureaucrat shakedown artists.
Long-time drinkers of vitamin-rich non-pasteurized milk cite
increased resistance to colds and flu, weight loss, relief from
arthritis pain, plus a whole lot more - and this is not to
mention the fuller, truer flavor raw milk drinkers enjoy. How
can you get raw milk for yourself? Well, you could fence off the
backyard and buy a cow, or…
You could locate farmers who operate around these greedy milk
laws by actually selling shares in their cows, then charging a
per-gallon "handling fee" to extract the milk (usually about the
same price as a gallon of store-bought milk, coincidentally).
You see, except in a few states, it's perfectly legal to DRINK
raw milk from a cow that you own.
Now that's good old American ingenuity for you. But it's too bad
that's what we have to resort to in order to foil needless
regulation by those who are supposed to be looking out for our
health - but are only really looking out for their own coffers. ***********************************************
Like people, cows are what they eat…
On a more optimistic note, some University of California
scientists have been hard at work developing a new supplement to
cattle feed that can dramatically increase levels of healthy
unsaturated fatty acids in the milk cows that eat this
new-fangled feed produce - by up to 800%!
Like the "Omega Egg" I told you about a few months ago in my
newsletter (which makes eggs even healthier by radically
boosting their Omega-3 fat content), this protein-rich, totally
non-synthetic feed supplement could potentially make cow's milk
even more beneficial than it already is. And that's not a bad
thing in this era of increasingly fat-free milk and
nutrient-robbing heat pasteurization.
The implications of this new "mega-milk" are far-reaching, too.
If the research holds true (and no downsides are discovered), we
could soon see even healthier butters, cheeses - even a whole
new generation of "super steaks"…
The bottom line is this: If we are what we eat (or drink, in
milk's case), shouldn't we pay attention to about what's being
eaten by what we're eating? Stay tuned for more on this in a
future Daily Dose…
Not being milked by the mainstream,
William Campbell Douglass II, MD
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