If there could be a master key to safe raw milk, I think it would be contented cows. Remember Elsie, the Borden cow? Their slogan used to be “Milk from Contented Cows”, when safe milk first became synonymous with pasteurization. Todays dairy cows have strayed way out of Elsies pasture. These cows may not produce raw milk that is safe because Elsies descendants spend their brief lives entirely indoors, living on field corn and soybeans to the degradation of their milk and the degeneration of the nations health.
Cow health and safe raw milk
Its not complicated science to understand that quality of life as well as diet affects cows milk quality. Superior milk reflects many things quality fats, available minerals and vitamins, living enzymes, no “off-flavor” and much more. When animals are raised entirely outdoors on green grass and/or hay, their milk is proven time and again greatly reduced in [...]
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- CALIFORNIA: Raw milk may soon be toast – (Ventura County Star)
Jim Burket writes in this letter to the editor that there are two dairies in California that produce raw milk. They are Organic Pastures Dairy, locate...
- Escherichia coli 0157:H7 infections in children associated with raw milk and raw colostrum from cows – CALIFORNIA, 2006 – (MMWR Weekly, Vol. 57, No. 23; p. 625-628)
On September 18, 2006, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) was notified of two children hospitalized with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS...
- OHIO: Milk hormone label debate continues – (Associated Press, USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-11-milk-label_N.htm
COLUMBUS, Ohio A coalition of consumer groups and organic dairy producers is mobili...
- OHIO: Skepticism about science fuels milk labeling furor – (Dayton Daily News)
In the past two years, milk has, according to this story, churned out controversy among Ohio consumers, dairy farmers and regulators.
First came a sti...
- ONTARIO: Raw milk advocates rally around Schmidt – (Owen Sound Sun Times)
Raw milk advocates have rallied around Durham-area Michael Schmidt as he stands trial for distributing unpasteurized milk in Ontario and pushes to cha...
- Ohio adopts new dairy label rule for synthetic hormones – (Associated Press)
http://www.chillicothegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080421/UPDATES01/80421016
Some organic dairy producers say they will stop advertising o...
- MINNESOTA: General Mills to stop use of rBGH milk in Yoplait – (Star Tribune)
Saying consumers want the change, General Mills on Monday announced it would suspend by August the use of milk produced from cows injected with a synt...
- NEW YORK: Carbon hoofprint: Cows supplemented with rbST reduce agriculture’s environmental impact – (Cornell University Communications)
ITHACA, N.Y. — Milk goes green: Cows that receive recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (rbST) make more milk, all the while easing natural resource p...
- PENNSYLVANIA: The strange case of Salmonella at Americas second-largest raw-milk dairy – (The Complete Patient)
Every time I look for news about raw milk, it seems as if I come across something about Stump Acres, a large raw-milk dairy in southeastern Pennsylvan...
- CALIFORNIA: State, dairies clash in court on raw milk regulations. Specialized dairies say new rules will destroy a beneficial market. – (FresnoBee.com)
SACRAMENTO–To its fervent supporters, raw milk is almost magical. It keeps colds and diarrhea away and can even cure asthma, they say.
But to st...
- Raw milk fans oppose new CALIFORNIA dairy standards – (Associated Press)
Raw milk consumers, according to this story, oppose new dairy standards set to take effect next month in California that they say could outlaw some of...
- PENNSYLVANIA: Pa. bans milk labels saying cows not treated with artificial growth hormones – (Philly.com)
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has banned milk labels that say dairy cows were not treated with artificial growth hormones.
The move surpr...
- NEW ZEALAND: Greens call for overhaul of food authority – (New Zealand Herald)
The Green Party is calling for an urgent overhaul of the Food Safety Authority (FSA) following claims it misled the public over the safety of milk.
Th...
- US: The American Academy of Pediatrics warns against raw milk – (Marler Blog)
In the recent volume of AAP News is an article entitled, advis[ing] families against giving children unpasteurized [raw] milk. The article could n...
- EDITORIAL: Would you like sick cow with those fries? – (New York Times)
The hamburger is one of the great culinary inventions of all time. Bread, meat, veggies, and a little sauce, and there you have itall the basic food...
- Proposed hormone label rule for milk in OHIO is inflaming organic producers – (Dow Jones)
A coalition of consumer groups and organic dairy producers is mobilizing against a proposed state rule that wouldn’t allow milk labels to say wh...
- US: Scientists challenge industry in escalating rBST label row – (Truth About Trade and Technology)
http://www.truthabouttrade.org/content/view/11387/54/
Sixty-six university dairy and veterinary scientists launched a broad attack Monday against milk...
- BSE in JAPAN may be linked to milk: report – (MeatingPlace.com)
Some of the animals in Japan infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy may have contracted the disease from alternative milk containing Dutch-mad...
- JAPAN experts say cloned animals are safe for human consumption – (Bloomberg)
Cloned cows and pigs can be used for food as their meat and milk do not pose any health risk, an expert panel at Japans Food Safety Commission said ...
- The secret liaison to Sen. Dean Florezs captivation with raw milkIt could lead to changes in AB1735 – (The Patient)
Its been a long, but stimulatingno, make that excitingday at the California Senates raw milk hearing. The session was two hours late in gettin...
