Milkijuana?

Commentary by John Wind Bell for Salem-News.com

“Say No to Raw Milk,” will be the popular chant. “This is your brain on Raw Milk,” will be on the TV screen. “It’s a gateway drink,” someone will be sure to preach from their pulpit.

(EPHRATA, Pa.) - Granted, it’s a bit of a stretch, but not that much. Bear with me now.

There is already a fear associated with raw milk that’s been planted in peoples’ heads, no matter how safe the milk business was before pasteurization. I have relatives that are still alive who were in the milk business before and after this new heating process. We’ve talked about it on numerous occasions throughout my life, always concluding that the only reason they used this process is so it could sit on the shelves longer, not spoil and be sold in the grocery store.

“And it ain’t any better for ya than colored water,” my great uncle has said. His family owned Lankerbrook Dairy at one time. I think he has a chip on his shoulder, after all these years, he loved being a milk man.

So yes, I admit it, out of necessity he and I and others in our family, as well as others in this country, have a connection. We deal in the ‘black market,’ so to speak. It is our drink of choice. We joke about it. It’s our family secret. Some times before I leave for my weekly ’score,’ I’ll first look out the peep-hole of my front door for any suspicious cars with darkly tinted windows. I’ll take a different rout every week to my raw milk supplier, whom I’ll call Joseph.

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