Re: Pasture-ized, not pasteurized; hear hear ! (nt)

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> Some interesting thoughts on milk from Dr. s

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> Stupid Vogue

> http://tinyurl.com/39juj

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> Daily Dose

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> December 9, 2003

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> News Flash: Non-pasteurized cow's milk is a health hazard

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> 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.

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> 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?

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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...

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> 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.

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> 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.