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(NaturalNews) For the past several years, as it rose in popularity, "raw" milk – that is, milk that has not undergone pasteurization – has been heavily criticized as being unclean, disease-ridden and dangerous to consume. But a growing body of research and evidence suggests that pasteurizing milk may actually be robbing us of vital protection against major allergic conditions, as well as destroying many nutrients that contribute to much better health, the UK's Daily Mail Online reports.
While raw milk can be legally purchased from farmers, milk sold in retail stores must be pasteurized – that is, a process by which milk is heated to about 162 degrees F for 25 seconds, in order to remove any E.coli and other potentially lethal pathogens like salmonella.
But the process may also be destroying vital nutrients that protect us from a range of sicknesses and ailments, as well as allergies in children and adults.
The Mail Online further reported that a study involving more than 1,100 children by pediatric allergy specialists at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, found that kids who regularly consumed unpasteurized milk had a much lower risk of developing allergic asthma.
The Daily Mail also noted:
"The findings of this large-scale, long-term (six-year) study are in line with earlier, smaller studies. But the German study also points to omega 3 fatty acids as the substance in raw milk that may be key to the benefits. Tabea Brick, one of the immunologists who led the research, says that these play a crucial role in enabling the body to create chemicals that reduce harmful inflammation."
Essentially, asthma is an inflammatory allergic reaction in the lungs' airways.
"Fresh, unprocessed cow's milk has a higher content of omega 3 than does pasteurised, homogenised [where it's treated to stop the cream separating] or low-fat milk," she wrote in this month's edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. "This factor partly explains why children who consume the unprocessed product are less likely to develop asthma."
While our bodies don't produce omega 3 fatty acids, they can nevertheless come from foods like fish and dairy products (though raw dairy is much better for you). Still, the authors of the German study decided not to actually recommend that consumers switch to unpasteurized milk due to bacterial concerns.
So, instead, the researchers are urging milk producers to developing processing techniques that are far less aggressive than pasteurization so that all the beneficial components in milk are protected and preserved while still eliminating pathogens.
In the United States, raw milk producers have become the target of various federal and state government agencies whose interests are motivated more by outside lobbying groups than by giving the American people the freedom to choose whatever form of milk they wish to consume.
One of these farmers is raw milk producer David Hochstetler who – after six years of being hassled by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Justice – is finally free to do what he does, which is raise livestock and produce a wonderfully pure, organic dairy product.
As reported by NewsTarget, Hochstetler, of rural Middlebury, Ind., began being harassed by federal officials after they suspected his farm of being the source of a 2010 bacteria outbreak in Michigan. However, an investigation by a county sheriff failed to yield evidence substantiating those claims. He was defended by his local sheriff, who warned federal officials of consequences – including arrest – if they continued to search Hochstetler's property without a proper, constitutional, court-issued warrant, as required by the Fourth Amendment.
What's the government's real problem with raw milk anyway? According to Economics 21, it is born of an irrational – and incorrect – view of the product:
"The CDC states that 'While it is possible to get foodborne illnesses from many different foods, raw milk is one of the riskiest of all.' Yet newly-released CDC data show that, from 2007 to 2012, there were a total of 81 reported outbreaks associated with unpasteurized milk and that these outbreaks resulted in 979 illnesses, 73 hospitalizations, and 0 deaths. Over a five-year period of relatively wide consumption, raw milk did not kill a single person, even though it is estimated that in California alone 100,000 people drink raw milk weekly."
Sources:
DailyMail.co.uk
NewsTarget.com
NaturalNews.com
Science.NaturalNews.com
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/053511_raw_milk_pasteurization_allergies.html#ixzz44mVA3Yj0
Dairy Farm Fires Worker Over Animal Abuse Allegations
PLAIN CITY, Ohio — An dairy farm employee was arrested on Wednesday after video revealed alleged abuse.
An animal welfare group asked prosecutors to review undercover video that it says shows workers abusing cows at a central Ohio dairy farm, 10TV News reported.
The group, Mercy For Animals, said the video was recorded over the past month at Conklin Dairy Farms, based in Plain City.
The video was presented to the City of Marysville prosecutor's office for review, 10TV News reported.
Billy Joe Gregg Jr., 25, was arrested by the Union County Sheriff's Office and charged with several counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty.
Mercy For Animals publicizes what it calls cruel practices in the dairy, meat and egg industries and promotes a vegan diet.
The video shows workers holding newborn calves down and stomping on their heads. It also shows one worker wiring a cow's nose to a metal bar near the ground and repeatedly beating it with a bar while it bleeds.
On Wednesday, Conklin Dairy Cattle Sales issued a statement, saying it conducted an initial review of the video and found it "clearly inconsistent" with high standards set for its farm and workers.
"We have launched our own internal investigation into this matter and will be conducting interviews with everyone on our farm who works with our animals," the statement read. "We already have terminated the worker involved who was seen to have willfully abused our cows and calves."
The company said it was cooperating with authorities investigating the matter, and retraining all employees who work with animals.
ACTUAL UNDERCOVER VIDEO CAN BE FOUND HERE: WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/ohdairy/
Chilling undercover footage recorded during a new Mercy For Animals investigation exposes dairy farm workers sadistically abusing cows and young calves.
Captured on hidden camera, the shocking scenes of abuse reveal a culture of cruelty at Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City, Ohio.
During a four-week investigation between April and May, MFA's investigator documented farm workers:
Violently punching young calves in the face, body slamming them to the ground, and pulling and throwing them by their ears
Routinely using pitchforks to stab cows in the face, legs and stomach
Kicking "downed" cows (those too injured to stand) in the face and neck – abuse carried out and encouraged by the farm's owner
Maliciously beating restrained cows in the face with crowbars – some attacks involving over 40 blows to the head
Twisting cows' tails until the bones snapped
Punching cows' udders
Bragging about stabbing, dragging, shooting, breaking bones, and beating cows and calves to death
After viewing the footage, Dr. Bernard Rollin, distinguished professor of animal science at Colorado State University, stated: "This is probably the most gratuitous, sustained, sadistic animal abuse I have ever seen. The video depicts calculated, deliberate cruelty, based not on momentary rage but on taking pleasure through causing pain to cows and calves who are defenseless."
Immediately upon completion of the investigation, Mercy For Animals contacted the City Prosecutor's Office of Marysville regarding the ongoing pattern of abuse at Conklin Dairy Farms. MFA is pushing for employees of the facility to be criminally prosecuted for violating Ohio's animal cruelty laws.
The deplorable conditions uncovered at Conklin Dairy Farms highlight the reality that animal agriculture is incapable of self-regulation and that meaningful federal and state laws must be implemented and strengthened to prevent egregious cruelty to farmed animals.
Although many of the abuses documented at Conklin Dairy Farms are sadistic in nature, numerous MFA undercover investigations at dairy farms, pig farms, egg farms, hatcheries and slaughterhouses have revealed that violence and abuse to farmed animals – whether malicious or institutionalized – runs rampant nationwide.
Compassionate consumers can end their direct financial support of farmed animal abuse by rejecting dairy, and other animal products, and adopting a vegan diet.
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/ohdairy/
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