Pasture-ized, not pasteurized

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Some interesting thoughts on milk from Dr. s

Stupid Vogue

http://tinyurl.com/39juj

Daily Dose

December 9, 2003

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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.