Raw Milk Is Gaining Fans, but the Science Says It's Dangerous

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Dairy farm owners report growing interest in buying shares in their cows

Kitty Hockman-'s phone is ringing off the hook. Callers to

her dairy farm in Winchester, Va., are so eager to buy a share in one

of her 20 hormone-free, grass-fed Jersey cows that she expects her

150 cow co-owners to double in number this year.

Why buy a cow? For the unpasteurized raw milk. A growing number of

consumers are keen to drink raw milk, for reasons ranging from a

desire to buy locally produced food to taste to a belief in its

purported health benefits. Word of mouth abounds of how raw milk

cleared up asthma and ear infections in children, improved

osteoporosis in seniors, and even made autistic kids function better...

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Carolyn

Madison, WI