"A Tale of Two Milks" - By: Stanley A. Fishman, Author of "Tender Grassfed Meat" and Jon Barron on raw milk.

Date:   7/29/2010 4:17:58 AM ( 14 y ago)

July 23, 2020 - From The Archive -

Jon Barron wrote:

Are there any health benefits to drinking raw milk? According to the FDA, no. And if all you measure are protein and fat content and added vitamin D, they are correct.

But if you consider that pasteurization involves heating milk to approximately 1450 Fahrenheit for 30 minutes or longer and therefore kills all enzymes and beneficial bacteria in the process, then the answer is not so obvious.

Heating the milk to pasteurize it "denatures" dairy proteins making some of them much more allergenic than they are in their natural state. Consider that many cases of asthma and sinus infections are reported to be relieved, and even eliminated, by simply cutting out dairy. And if you toss in the fact that pasteurization makes calcium insoluble and unavailable to the body (a key reason countries with the highest pasteurized dairy consumption have the highest rates of osteoporosis in the world), the health benefits swing decidedly in favor of raw milk.

Can raw milk become contaminated? Yes, absolutely -- but not often. Most raw milk dairies tend to run extremely clean operations because of the liability issues. And keep in mind that in this recent outbreak only 8 illnesses were reported. We see far more E. coli contamination in meat each year than in raw dairy -- even as a percentage of users. And in fact, we regularly see contamination of pasteurized dairy too, but the FDA never seems to propose that people stop eating meat and pasteurized dairy. It seems raw milk just doesn't have a big enough lobby supporting it.[1]
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July 29, 2010 -

"This is a story of two kinds of milk: the swill milk made from distillery garbage that caused death; and the real milk from grass-fed cows, that gave life. These two milks had a tremendous impact in the life of my grandfather, who became the first member of his family to be a dairy farmer."[2]
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Notes:

[1] "An extract from his Got Milk newsletter"

[2] http://hartkeisonline.com/2010/07/27/russian-immigrant-to-canada-discovers-he...
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