Re: Some thoughts on regulations...

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Ramit-

First, good luck pursuing this! Whatever any of us can do needs to be done!

>3- How do you address concerns about E. Coli? (Someone brought Odwalla up

>again today). How do you protect safety when there *are* unethical

>businesses that aren't hygienic? That may bring about a comparison to

>European methods?

As far as Odwalla goes, there's a very, very important scientific

distinction between apple juice and milk. Apple juice is not a natural

food -- it's an unnatural concentration of sugar that has no built-in

immune system, so to speak. Raw grass-fed milk, by contrast, is meant to

be consumed as it is, right out of the cow. The bacteria found in raw

grass-fed milk are beneficial, and are the very same bacteria used to make

yoghurt, a widely-recognized probiotic, and for that matter to make

acidophilus supplements. I don't know that it's necessary to denigrate

Odwalla, per se, but plainly milk is very different.

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Idol wrote:

> The bacteria found in raw

> grass-fed milk are beneficial, and are the very same bacteria used to make

> yoghurt, a widely-recognized probiotic, and for that matter to make

> acidophilus supplements.

Human breast milk is consumed raw, and it's got bacteria too.

Roman

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On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:44:00 -0500 Idol <Idol@...>

writes:

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As far as Odwalla goes, there's a very, very important scientific

distinction between apple juice and milk. Apple juice is not a natural

food -- it's an unnatural concentration of sugar that has no built-in

immune system, so to speak. Raw grass-fed milk, by contrast, is meant to

be consumed as it is, right out of the cow. The bacteria found in raw

grass-fed milk are beneficial, and are the very same bacteria used to

make

yoghurt, a widely-recognized probiotic, and for that matter to make

acidophilus supplements. I don't know that it's necessary to denigrate

Odwalla, per se, but plainly milk is very different.

Bianca

Not only that but there was never any evidence that Odwalla was at fault.

None. An investigative reporter did a good job on how the state health

department needed a scapegoat and got one. It also made it so NO

unpasteurized juice of any kind can be found at retail in Washington

state.