Udderly delightful

"We drink raw milk because we trust the traditional food chain more than the industrial one," said Nina Planck, author of "Real Food: What to Eat and Why."

Now that's a quote I never thought I'd see in the New York Times! And it's just part and parcel of an entire topic I never thought I'd see there, either: The growing popularity of raw milk.

I wouldn't exactly call it a glowing review, but at least it didn't paint raw milk drinkers in too much of a lunatic light. At the very least, it alerted people who didn't know milk came from anything other than a giant metal storage container to the fact that there are more natural (and far better) options available.

Most of the article focused on the growing raw milk industry, and I think it's impressive enough to bear repeating here…

Sally Fallon, the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, one of the nation's most vocal raw milk proponents, estimates that more than half a million people in the U.S. now consume raw milk. And I'm not just talking about the stereotypical toothless hillbilly that "doesn't know any better."

"You cannot categorize the people who are drinking raw milk. They are people from the blue states and red states, farmers and yuppies and Birkenstock wearers," Planck said.

Nowhere is that more evident than in New York City, where Wall Street moguls and starving artists can stand side by side waiting for a weekly clandestine drop of raw milk. Why the secrecy? I'll tell you why…

The laws regarding raw milk differ from state to state-and in New York, the only place you can legally get raw milk is on the premises of a farm that's been approved by the state. And last I checked, most New Yorkers don't like to be bothered with weekly trips to an odiferous dairy farm-hence, the covert drop sights…

On the other side of the country the raw milk business is booming as well. Organic Pastures Dairy Company, the first raw milk dairy in California with certified organic pastureland, expects to gross $1 million MORE this year than it did last year (jumping from $4.9 to $6 million). And that's juts ONE dairy. (No wonder the dairy industry is starting to sweat…)

Of course, the article had its thinly veiled biased comments, hailing people involved in what they're referring to as a "movement" as risking "illness or even death to drink their milk the way Americans did for centuries: straight from the cow."

But that's to be expected, as is the mainstream's udder ignorance of the REAL facts about raw milk.

There's more to this story, and you can read all about it in my very own milk book, called The Raw Truth About Milk. Whether you're sitting on the raw milk fence, or you're a die-hard enthusiast, this book is a great read (yes, I'm a little biased). If you order now, my publisher has agreed to cover the cost of shipping.

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