own a cow

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In a message dated 4/7/02 11:13:01 AM Central Daylight Time,

ynos@... writes:

> This

> approach, in my opinion, is the way to deal with their saying that

> all milk needs to be pasteurized for consumer safety. Instead of

> being on the defensive regarding raw milk, we need to be on the

> offensive regarding the nutritional value of milk, demonstrating that

> people should fear the milk in the stores but should desire milk of

> high nutritional value that is no threat to the health of their

> families.

> Chi

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This is why, in TN, I am going for raw milk sales from small farms. I mean

small, as in 15 to 20 goats, 5 or 6 cows. With an operation this small the

farmer hasn't got the money to grain feed. The milking part seems to be what

worries officials here but as we pointed out to the pair that visited us, if

I milk the cow and manure gets into the milk I dump it. I don't want to drink

manure. In a large dairy, who cares?

Belinda

LaBelle Acres

www.labelleacres.com

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> Anybody know how folks are doing the own a cow thing to get milk?

> Or know who is doing it?

Hi Belinda:

My farmer sells 1/4 cow to people who wish to purchase diary

products. If the cow dies, your investment is transferred to another

cow. Thus you always own 1/4 of one producing cow in the farmer's

herd. Instead of paying room and board for your 1/4 cow, you pay for

the dairy products as you take them. If you move away or wish to stop

buying his dairy products, you receive 80% of your original

investment back and your 1/4 cow is sold to someone else.

Neither my farmer nor I believe that all milk should be sold raw.

Both of us believe the milk sold in the stores should be pasteurized.

It would be unwise to feed raw milk of little or no nutritional value

to an unhealthy population that is malnourished. Such milk would be

expected to contain pathogens that would make unhealthy people sick.

The issue of raw milk is tied to nutrition. When quantity, instead of

nutritional quality, is the object, the milk should probably always

be pasteurized.

I suggest that quantity is the object if the cows are holsteins, if

the cows are grain fed or if hybrid grass is planted in the pasure

instead of addressing the soil fertility. I would suspect Weston

Price would agree with this.

A scientific trial should be done by the establishment to see if raw

milk from cows that aren't holsteins, that are only fed grass growing

in soil of high soil fertility (on pasure in season and fed hay in

the rest of the year) makes people sick or makes people healthier.

The scientific trial should establish the relative pathogen content

of conventional dairy milk before and after it is pasteurized and the

pathogen content from the milk produced in the manner described

above. You should only expect the establishment to conduct this trial

if you also expect them to shoot themselves in the foot. This

approach, in my opinion, is the way to deal with their saying that

all milk needs to be pasteurized for consumer safety. Instead of

being on the defensive regarding raw milk, we need to be on the

offensive regarding the nutritional value of milk, demonstrating that

people should fear the milk in the stores but should desire milk of

high nutritional value that is no threat to the health of their

families.

Chi

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We are now looking into buying an acreage and owning a cow.

Sonja