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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I doubt many/any dairies are going to be 100% grass-fed, as another PP said I think it's not really healthy for the cows.

Please don't give your kids raw milk and please don't continue to see anyone calling themselves a "doctor" who is telling you to give your kids raw milk.[/quote]

:roll: I am so sick of the hysteria about milk. Milk that comes out of a cow is not dangerous. What's dangerous is the filthy conditions that 'big business' dairy farms created that started making people sick. I wouldn't touch ANY milk that came out of those places, pasteurized or not.

People have been drinking milk (now generally known by the masses as "raw milk") for thousands of years. Most people also have no idea that real ("raw") milk is loaded with good bacteria and that it's actually quite difficult for pathogens to grow in it. I have no problem drinking real milk (or feeding it to my kids, even when they were babies) after it's been left out all day. It's called buttermilk and it's very nutritious, if a bit strange tasting. The conditions really have to be FILTHY for there to be a problem with raw milk. In a typical small to mid sized dairy with even vaguely decent standards, I have no concerns whatsoever.

Of course you should visit your local farm before buying from there. They should be happy to explain their procedures to you. Personally, I meet ALL the suppliers of my family's food when I'm not thoroughly washing or cooking it. And I'm far, far more concerned with something like a prepared fruit salad than a bottle of raw milk! There are many more and worse contaminations of salad mixes and cucumbers and other produce than raw milk.

Oh, and I had raw milk (and other raw dairy products) every single day of my pregnancies and my babies had it too. Even raw milk that was several weeks old.

And to the PP above spouting nonsense about grains being more healthy for cows..... I'm speechless. Please, do the world a favor and don't comment when you have no idea what you're talking about.

Everyone should think for themselves about the sources of your information and any conflicts of interest that may affect what those sources tell you. You just have to wonder why (and even how) there are laws against raw milk sales in most states to see that there's something fishy going on. You can go into Walmart and buy a gun but you can't go into Walmart and buy milk that came out of a cow. And most people don't stop to question why that is. It's pretty sad, really.

- Science PhD whose kids don't get sick much due to being properly nourished[/quote]

A baby died recently from improperly washed pump parts and breast milk.  And you're telling us that raw cow milk is perfectly safe?

Drink pasteurized milk.  [/quote]

1. The infant was extremely premature (29 weeks) and was given caffeine citrate (which is given to treat a lack of breathing in premature infants)
2. The infant was given PASTEURIZED donor human milk mixed in with her mother's expressed milk during the first week
3. The mother didn't make any attempt to actually wash any of the pump parts, just soaked them in soapy water in a sink for up to 5 hours and then rinsed before air drying 
4. The infant was given no cow's milk whatsoever
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6628a5.htm?s_cid=mm6628a5_e

So I don't think anyone could seriously hold this tragic situation up as a representative example to warn against the consumption of raw cow's milk.

And no, I didn't say that cow's milk is perfectly safe. Nothing is. But I'm still far more concerned about giving my younger children cantaloupe than raw milk from a dairy farmer I've met.[/quote]

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