Raw Milk

[Anonymous]

I have a neighbor that is into raw milk. What do people think of raw milk? Does it have gut health reboot qualities? Educate me please.

[Anonymous]

Farmer here. My dairy farmer friend pasteurizes the milk they feed back to the calves.

Cows lay in shit. Even at really nice, free range farms…they lay down in mud, they splash mud around…they clean udders, but bacteria are so tiny and a little mistake can make you very sick. Trust the science, drink pasteurized milk.

[Anonymous]

Only drink raw milk if you think you'd enjoy having undulant fever.

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

It's delicious and also very healthy. I drank raw milk for years and never got sick. You have to make sure you know the farmer. You can only get sick from raw milk if it comes from a sick cow.

Delish. Highly recommend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's delicious and also very healthy. I drank raw milk for years and never got sick. You have to make sure you know the farmer. You can only get sick from raw milk if it comes from a sick cow.

Delish. Highly recommend.

That is not true. The milk can become contaminated many ways beyond the cow that produced it being sick. Pasteurization is a great invention and people who do not think so are whacksdoodles. Bad judgment.

[Anonymous]

When I was a kid, we only had raw milk delivered every morning. My mother would boil it and gave it to us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was a kid, we only had raw milk delivered every morning. My mother would boil it and gave it to us.

See the big difference here? Your mother took steps to keep you safe

[Anonymous]

I do pasteurized but not homogenized milk (so the cream floats to the top). So much tastier

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's delicious and also very healthy. I drank raw milk for years and never got sick. You have to make sure you know the farmer. You can only get sick from raw milk if it comes from a sick cow.

Delish. Highly recommend.

That is not true. The milk can become contaminated many ways beyond the cow that produced it being sick. Pasteurization is a great invention and people who do not think so are whacksdoodles. Bad judgment.

Well I speak from actual experience. I drank it for years and was never sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's delicious and also very healthy. I drank raw milk for years and never got sick. You have to make sure you know the farmer. You can only get sick from raw milk if it comes from a sick cow.

Delish. Highly recommend.

That is not true. The milk can become contaminated many ways beyond the cow that produced it being sick. Pasteurization is a great invention and people who do not think so are whacksdoodles. Bad judgment.

Well I speak from actual experience. I drank it for years and was never sick.

Once it is heated it isn’t raw. So your mom pasteurized your milk at home…same thing. Do you not know what pasteurization is?

[Anonymous]

My family drank it for about a year. DH got weirded out by the change in flavor in spring when the cows started eating the fresh spring grass. I did feel like I could digest raw better. But also didn’t mind stopping because I heard you can contract Lyme disease if the cows are infected.

We try to buy low temp pasteurized when we can, instead of ultra pasteurized.

I know a few people who grew up drinking raw goat’s milk and credit their healthy immune systems to that. One friend’s goat ate all their poison ivy and he’s convinced that is why he doesn’t react to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Farmer here. My dairy farmer friend pasteurizes the milk they feed back to the calves.

Cows lay in shit. Even at really nice, free range farms…they lay down in mud, they splash mud around…they clean udders, but bacteria are so tiny and a little mistake can make you very sick. Trust the science, drink pasteurized milk.

That's absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's delicious and also very healthy. I drank raw milk for years and never got sick. You have to make sure you know the farmer. You can only get sick from raw milk if it comes from a sick cow.

Delish. Highly recommend.

That is not true. The milk can become contaminated many ways beyond the cow that produced it being sick. Pasteurization is a great invention and people who do not think so are whacksdoodles. Bad judgment.

Well I speak from actual experience. I drank it for years and was never sick.

Once it is heated it isn’t raw. So your mom pasteurized your milk at home…same thing. Do you not know what pasteurization is?

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That was a different poster. I drank the milk raw -- still warm from the cow. Delicious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My family drank it for about a year. DH got weirded out by the change in flavor in spring when the cows started eating the fresh spring grass. I did feel like I could digest raw better. But also didn’t mind stopping because I heard you can contract Lyme disease if the cows are infected.

We try to buy low temp pasteurized when we can, instead of ultra pasteurized.

I know a few people who grew up drinking raw goat’s milk and credit their healthy immune systems to that. One friend’s goat ate all their poison ivy and he’s convinced that is why he doesn’t react to it.

Yeah, the taste of the milk changes when they eat a bunch of weeds, too.