Top Ten Reasons To Drink Raw Milk

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For years, I drank 2% milk. Just regular old milk from the supermarket. Then I switched to organic 2% milk. wanted to avoid bovine growth hormones and pesticides and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). When I got pregnant, I switched to organic whole milk. I figured I needed the extra fat for my growing baby.

After Baby Kate was born, I wanted to feed her as healthfully as possible. Which is when I found out about raw milk. I did a ton of research on milk, and I became absolutely convinced that the healthiest, most nutritious milk to feed my daughter was real raw milk from grass-fed cows.

Here are my top ten reasons to drink raw milk:

(The slides are from the RealMilk.com website. To download the whole Powerpoint by Lee Dexter and Sally Fallon-Morell, click here).

1. Raw milk is vastly more nutritious than pasteurized milk.

Pasteurized Milk is Less Nutritious

2. Raw milk contains enzymes.

“Pasteurization destroys all the enzymes in milk— in fact, the test for successful pasteurization is absence of enzymes. These enzymes help the body assimilate all bodybuilding factors, including calcium. That is why those who drink pasteurized milk may suffer, nevertheless, from osteoporosis.” — Sally Fallon-Morell, RealMilk.com


3. Raw milk contains probiotics.

“Bacteria have a reputation for causing disease, so the idea of tossing down a few billion a day for your health might seem — literally and figuratively — hard to swallow. But a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that you can treat and even prevent some illnesses with foods and supplements containing certain kinds of live bacteria. Northern Europeans consume a lot of these beneficial microorganisms, called probiotics (from pro and biota, meaning “for life”), because of their tradition of eating foods fermented with bacteria, such as yogurt. Probiotic-laced beverages are also big business in Japan.” — Harvard Medical School, “Health Benefits of Taking Probiotics”

Because pasteurization destroys probiotics (good bacteria), any harmful bacteria present in the milk after pasteurization can and will flourish. On the other hand, published research shows that good bacteria and many other components in raw milk actually destroy pathogens added to the milk.” – Sally Fallon-Morell, WAPF

4. Raw milk is easier to digest — even for the lactose intolerant.

Lactose Intolerance & Pasteurized Milk

Raw milk can also help those suffering from asthma, eczema and many other ailments.

5. Raw milk is safer than pasteurized milk. It contains “built-in safety systems” that help destroy pathogens:

Raw Milk Has Built-In Safety Systems

While raw milk often gets blamed for food-borne illnesses, the truth is, raw milk is safer than salad:

Raw Milk is Safer Than Salad

6. Raw milk is better for cows.

rawmilk7

I always figured “organic milk” was the very best. But I was wrong. Organic milk often comes from cows in factories. Did you know, for example, that Horizon is a factory farm? I didn’t. I believed they were “happy cows”.

Unless the cows are raised on pasture, they are not healthy and they are certainly not happy. And if a cow is not healthy, how can her milk be healthy?

Confinement Dairy: Jail for Cows

A cow in confinement lives on average for just 3.5 years. A cow grazing on pasture? Twelve years or more.

7. Clean, nutritious milk comes from healthy cows that eat grass, not sick cows eating grain.

Most cows, even at the “organic” dairies, are fed grain — corn and soy. Cows were never meant to eat grain. They are meant to eat grass, and to graze on pasture. When cows are fed grain, even organic grain, it makes them sick.

From Michael Pollan’s The Vegetable-Industrial Complex, October 15, 2006 in the New York Times:

The lethal strain of E. coli known as 0157:H7, responsible for this latest outbreak of food poisoning, was unknown before 1982; it is believed to have evolved in the gut of feedlot cattle. These are animals that stand around in their manure all day long, eating a diet of grain that happens to turn a cow’s rumen into an ideal habitat for E. coli 0157:H7. (The bug can’t survive long in cattle living on grass.)

From Nina Planck’s Leafy Green Sewage, September 21, 2006 in the New York Times:

In 2003, The Journal of Dairy Science noted that up to 80 percent of dairy cattle carry O157. (Fortunately, food safety measures prevent contaminated fecal matter from getting into most of our food most of the time.) Happily, the journal also provided a remedy based on a simple experiment. When cows were switched from a grain diet to hay for only five days, O157 declined 1,000-fold.

What Confinement Cows Eat

8. Raw milk is better for farmers. Raw milk can help turn the economy around in rural America.

Destruction of Rural Life

This is one of my biggest reasons. I don’t know about you, but I hate what’s become of rural America. A few decades ago, people still raised their own food on small farms. Now our small farms have almost been completely wiped out by corporate America. Now instead of small farms with organic vegetables and cows grazing on pasture, we have Wal-Marts full of processed crap.

The Milk Industry

Buy raw milk from a small farm and you are making a difference, folks!

A Rural Revival

9. Raw milk doesn’t go “bad” like pasteurized milk does.

If you leave a gallon of pasteurized milk on the counter overnight, what happens to it? It goes bad! But if you leave a gallon of raw milk out, you can do all kinds of things with it. You can separate the cream. You can make butter, buttermilk, and whey. You can make yogurt. You can make cheese. You can add kefir or filmjolk culture and make all kinds of fermented treats.

I love that I sometimes find a sippy cup of raw milk my daughter left in the car the next day — and I don’t have to waste it — I can just kefir it!

10. Raw milk tastes better!

The first time I tasted real raw milk cheese in Paris, I realized there really is a difference in taste. I’ve always been fond of milk but now I LOVE milk. I’m totally crazy about it.

If you have a testimonial about raw milk and how much it’s helped you and your family — or just want to tell everyone how much you love it, post a comment below.

For information on where to find raw milk in your area, please visit RealMilk.com.

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57 Comments on "Top Ten Reasons To Drink Raw Milk"

  1. cheeseslave
    Maria
    23/01/2009 at 2:45 pm Permalink

    Thanks for this list! I’m usually rattling off the top of my head the reasons why our family drinks raw milk and now I can just direct people to your site. I find it amusing that we sometimes have to defend our decision to drink raw milk… shouldn’t it be the other way around? :-)

    I also think it’s amazing to witness the magical bacterias and enzymes at work in raw milk. One time, I had left a half of a bottle of raw milk on the counter that somehow made it’s way into one of our kitchen cabinets (most likely my toddler) and I found it a week after we came home from our trip. With pasteurized milk, I’m sure the smell would have been horrible, but with the raw milk, the whey had beautifully separated from the milk solids and… voila, I had cream cheese and whey!

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    Betsy
    23/01/2009 at 3:28 pm Permalink

    I just drank a glass from the jug I picked up two weeks ago and it tasted sweet and fresh. I’m fairly new to raw milk and that still boggles my mind.

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    Joe
    23/01/2009 at 3:34 pm Permalink

    i too notice that raw milk just tastes sweeter and acutally seems to last longer than regular milk ( after exp. date)
    the owner of my local HFS put it this way: people drank milk for centurys, and that milk was Raw milk, and from responsible farmers.

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    Amy
    23/01/2009 at 3:41 pm Permalink

    Rah, rah for raw milk! I now live in Maine, where raw milk is legal. For a long time I lived in California (also legal) but then did a brief stint in Nebraska (not legal). That was a bummer. I’ve always had a milk allergy, and even with raw milk I have a bit of trouble. BUT if I ferment it into kefir or yogurt, it’s perfect. No problems at all. Pasteurized yogurt or kefir? Can’t digest it. Thanks for the post!

    Amy’s last blog post..Signs of Spring

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    Motherhen68
    23/01/2009 at 4:02 pm Permalink

    I’m so jealous of you who can legally buy raw milk. In LA, it’s illegal unless you circumvent the system and then it’s SUPER EXPENSIVE and hard to come by.

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    Melissa
    23/01/2009 at 4:56 pm Permalink

    How old was Kate when you started giving her raw milk? I’m pregnant and researching raw dairy products. Raw milk can only be sold for pet consumption in my state, but I recently came across a farm not too far from my town where I could perhaps try some. All of the evidence makes so much sense, but I have to admit that I am still nervous about the idea of giving raw milk to my child or telling the pediatrician that I do so (I guess I would just not mention it.) I’m going to breastfeed as long as possible, so I don’t think it’s an issue I will have to face right away. But I want to feed the baby as healthfully as possible and your homemade formula seems so much better than the store bought stuff.

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    Amy
    23/01/2009 at 5:08 pm Permalink

    So ridiculous! In NE we almost resorted to tracking down a farmer we had heard of who sold raw milk on the “black market.” Who knew you had to be James Bond to find raw milk!? The strangest thing was that raw cheese was available everywhere… Yes, Mainers are very emphatic about their raw milk! :)

    Amy’s last blog post..Signs of Spring

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    Tamara
    23/01/2009 at 5:45 pm Permalink

    I love raw milk! I mean, ive only been drinking it for about 3 months now, but i love the taste, i love that i can MAKE other things out of it/i.e. it never goes bad, and i love that it offers so many health benefits and nutrients and that it comes from happy, well-treated, grass-fed cows.

    I do not like how hard it is to find raw milk and how ignorant the government likes to keep people about raw milk (i just LOVE watching local tv new stories and snippets in the newspaper about how DANGEROUS raw milk is, blah *sarcasm*.)

    But yea, i love me some raw milk…raw milk does a body REAL good! :)

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    Augie
    23/01/2009 at 6:11 pm Permalink

    x

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    dana
    23/01/2009 at 6:35 pm Permalink

    I live in Nebraska, have my whole life, I couldn’t live without my raw milk, and your all wrong it is totally legal in Nebraska, Thank goodness!!

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    Jenny
    23/01/2009 at 7:14 pm Permalink

    We love our raw milk–it tastes so much better. Pasteurized milk just tastes rancid and cooked. When we were out of town, my son (then 2.5) was begging for milk and I didn’t have access to raw milk while on vacation so I bought the next best thing in a pinch: vat-pasteurized, unhomogenized whole milk from grass-fed cows. He literally started crying when he tasted it, then lonesomely said, “This just isn’t real milk. I want the real milk that Sweet Clover (one of the dairy’s cows) makes.”

    Jenny’s last blog post..Chicken Nuggets – The Real Food Way

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    Vehement Flame
    23/01/2009 at 7:21 pm Permalink

    So,I’m spending nearly 6 bucks a gallon for cooped up cows milk. That makes me grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Thank’s for the info. I”m getting so unconvinced about even “organic food” these days as the government continues to lower the standards to make a buck:( Thanks for the raw milk link- Our only barrier is where to get it when you live in the middle of nowheres. Maybe we’ll get a nice goat for some goat’s milk- that’s what I was raised on…

    Vehement Flame’s last blog post..Black Bean Enchiladas Verde

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    FoodRenegade
    23/01/2009 at 7:41 pm Permalink

    I’m a raw milk junkie. I had an almost identical journey as you did. 2% to Organic 2% to Organic Whole to just plain raw. What handy slides!

    FoodRenegade’s last blog post..More Advantages of Grass-Fed Beef

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    Hillori Hansen
    23/01/2009 at 9:18 pm Permalink

    Melissa,
    Breastfeeding is obviously the best form of nutrition for your newborn but if, by chance, you can’t breastfeed, my advice would be to give her the raw milk formula. I could only breastfeed until 9 1/2 months and at that point I was only getting about 6 oz a day. Anne Marie’s blog, along with the Weston A. Price website, really gave me the confidence that the formula was the best form of nutrition (next to breastfeeding) for my daughter. My daughter thrives on the formula. It has so many nutritious ingredients in it, along with the raw milk and so many other families are doing the same. It would be worth your time to at least try it, if it comes down to that. I actually compared pricing of making homemade formula to buying a can of “organic” powdered formula and the homemade was much cheaper. Lastly, the store bought formulas can be laden with soy. Soy is linked to high estrogen levels and can cause early sexual development in children, but mostly, soy is not a food that should be consumed. Maybe Anne Marie has posted on this. Best of luck to you!
    Raw milk is delicious!!

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    Henriette
    24/01/2009 at 12:26 am Permalink

    Thanks AM
    Just a sidenote for your European readers.

    Organic cows CANT be confinement cows !
    That is illegal by EU law.
    Organic cows needs to be on pasture AT LEAST from April – to October.

    When I was pregnant I had acces to raw milk the last 3 months- but sadly that is not possible now.
    So I go for the second best ; organic milk( mainly from Jersey cows)
    - low pasteurised- non homogenised -no additives added.

    Henriette’s last blog post..Low carb/high fat – når pengene er få

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    Augie
    24/01/2009 at 5:09 am Permalink

    Ann Marie! It looks like you stole my talking points:
    http://wholefood.meetup.com/165/calendar/9575430/
    See what’s going on out here in Ohio with the WAPF org.

    Also, see out Journal: raw milk pet food is to be treated as a toxic waste:
    http://wholefoodusa.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/us-court-fda-raw-milk-like-toxic-waste/

    Augie’s last blog post..Classic Text: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

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    Kristin
    24/01/2009 at 6:02 am Permalink

    We like our raw milk so much, we got a cow. Now we have two.

    Raw milk from small farmers costs more because the farmer controls the price, not the big milk co-ops. And these small farmers get no subsidies. You’re paying the REAL price, not the price lowered by your tax dollars. It is hard work managing, maintaining, and developing good pasture.

    Raw milk cheeses are legal in all of the U.S. as long as they are aged 60 days. Everyone, including the USDA, recognizes that any and ALL pathogens are destroyed by the good bacteria after that period of time. Raw milk cheese is a good alternative if you can’t find raw milk. You can mail order it if you must.

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    Jeanie
    24/01/2009 at 6:50 am Permalink

    I am interested in raw milk. it’s only legal here for pet consumption and i have seen a farm actually pretty near our home that i might be able to get some. what i would like to know is when i go out there what do i look for at the farm to know that it is a reputable place to get raw milk. thanks for your thoughts.

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    cheeseslave
    24/01/2009 at 7:57 am Permalink

    Jeanie, where do you live? What is the name of the farm? Did you look at the Realmilk.com website to see if they are listed there? You might also talk to local WAPF chapter members and see what they think of the farm. I found all my local food sources and local farms through my local Weston A. Price chapter.

    Ann Marie

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    Monica Sartin
    24/01/2009 at 9:26 am Permalink

    Thanks so much for this great article – complete with stats. I added it as a link to our web site on the articles page – please be sure to let me know if that was ok…if not, I will promptly remove it.

    We are a small goat dairy in NE Texas (near Texarkana) – where we provide raw milk for those willing to purchase something labeled ‘for pet use only’. We currently have 18 babies in the field and will be milking 10 goats – lots of work but it feels good inside knowing that we are part of a health solution instead of destruction. FYI – goat milk’s cellular structure is smaller thus easier to digest for people. That’s one reason lactose intolerant folks can drink it with no issues.

    We are listed on rawmilk.com with Weston A. Price.

    Monica
    Maud, TX

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    Diane
    24/01/2009 at 10:41 am Permalink

    We love our raw milk also. However, the reality is up here in Canada selling raw milk is illegal. Meaning if we, as dairy farmers, were ever to do so and got caught we could end up loosing your license. Also, reality is that in this part of Canada our pastures are under three feet of snow. Our temperature right now is 22 below Fahrenheit, factor in the wind chill and we would have some unhappy cows. We are looking at these kinds of frigid temperatures from November until possibly March or later.
    I don’t agree with the fact that they are either happy pasture fed cows or sickly feed-lot cows. There can be a happy medium to reach for. During the warmer weather our cows are happy pasture fed cows. During the winter they are happy hay fed mostly barn confined cows. A happy cow is a cow who chews her cud, a sickly, uncontented cow won’t chew her cud. Ours do, year round. We’re not the ideal that WAPF endorses for raw milk but we do our best to be as close as humanly possible in this part of the world. And just to note: I LOVE WAPF and all it stands for!
    There are many farms around here that have free stall barns. Cows that cannot go outside on a pasture during the winter but who are comfortable in barns that have a certain spot to feed and other parts of the barn with bedding to lay. The milking takes place in a parlor at another end of the barn. They are given plenty of room to roam inside the barn. Not the feed-lot type of confinement.
    So all that to say that I agree with everything Sally Fallon and the Foundation is saying about the benefits of raw milk and that sometimes the ideal is something to reach for but isn’t always possible. So we do the best we can given the climate and type of government legislation we have.
    OK, getting off my soapbox.

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    cheeseslave
    24/01/2009 at 12:55 pm Permalink

    Thanks, everyone, for all the great comments! I love hearing everyone’s experiences with raw milk. With our continued passion, I just know that in time it will become legal again in every state in the nation (and Canada too) and small family farms will flourish!

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    cheeseslave
    24/01/2009 at 12:58 pm Permalink

    Melissa,

    I had trouble with low milk supply. I breastfed until Kate was 9 months old, but I started supplementing with raw milk formula when she was about 6 months old.
    She still gets 3 bottles of raw milk formula every day, plus plain raw milk in sippy cups.

    If you want to learn more, download that powerpoint (link above) — that really convinced me. Also, the book “The Untold Story of Milk” by Dr. Ron Schmid — that book blew me away. Highly, highly recommended!

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    cheeseslave
    24/01/2009 at 1:00 pm Permalink

    Great points, Kristin! It’s ridiculous how cheap our food is in America with all the subsidies. I’d rather support small family farms!

    Raw milk cheese is a great alternative if you can’t find raw milk.

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    cheeseslave
    24/01/2009 at 1:33 pm Permalink

    Great post, Augie,

    I truly love your blog!

    We are going to start doing MeetUp.com here in LA. I think it’s an awesome way to build a chapter. We just have to find a decent place to meet. That is our sticking point. The library is cost prohibitive. We’re trying to find a local cafe… or maybe we can find a church…

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    cheeseslave
    24/01/2009 at 1:54 pm Permalink

    Hi, Monica,

    Thanks very much for the link!

    I am a Texan too (well not native). Raised from the age of 7 in San Antonio and Dallas and graduated from UT Austin.

    PS: Maude was my dog’s name — she passed last year. My best friend in the world!

  27. Awesome post! I usually find myself saying something totally simple like “Did you pasteurize your breast milk before giving it to your newborn? Why not?” or something like that lol! Seems so obvious when ya put it THAT way. ;)

    Totally agree about the taste. It’s like melted ice cream~!

    Carrie at NaturalMomsTalkRadio’s last blog post..Create Your Own Tribe

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    Jeanie
    24/01/2009 at 6:51 pm Permalink

    Hi Ann Marie,
    I am in Alabama and the farm is listed with raw milk.com. I am going to also e-mail the nearest chapter and ask them for their sources too. Thanks so much and i love reading your blog.

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    Kristin
    26/01/2009 at 5:37 am Permalink

    I think Diane makes an excellent point about the WAPF ideal of an all grass fed cow. The reality is that most modern dairy breeds can’t get by without some amount of grain or they just can’t survive. They’ve been bred to require concentrates. And grass feeding year round in most of the U.S. is not possible due to temperatures. That does not mean that milk from cows fed on hay or silage and some grain aren’t producing good quality, healthy milk.

    The is particularly true with the Jersey cow. And many of the older, dual purpose breeds don’t really give enough to provide much extra for sale. Rest assured, there are many small farmers and homesteader, however, that are working to breed dairy cattle to produce with little or no grain.

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    cheeseslave
    26/01/2009 at 8:33 am Permalink

    Kristin –

    Yes, I agree — it’s about progress not perfection.

    I love your blog by the way!

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    Mary
    01/02/2009 at 7:39 am Permalink

    When my son was born my husband and I lived on a small dairy farm in Switzerland. Every couple days or so I would go down to the barn and buy a bucket of milk from our landlord (the farmer) or if I was up late after the chores were done and the milk taken to the co-op I’d drive to the coop and buy it there. I am really glad to have found a source for raw milk in San Fernando, I’m planning on trying to make a raw milk cheese similar to a Swiss cheese (Tomme Vaudois) that can’t be had in this country because it’s typically made with raw milk. And yogurt, fromage blanc, dulce de leche….

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    jo Nathan
    03/03/2009 at 2:41 pm Permalink

    Hey Everyone!

    Great Website,
    Yea so I live in Texas where its illegal to commercially buy raw milk, but I was able to join a milk share program which is a loop-hole and allows me to get it. Yeah its a little pricey but totally worth it. I have Crohn’s Disease and it really does work wonders when I get flare-ups.

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    Bay
    21/03/2009 at 3:21 pm Permalink

    Hey Ann Marie – I live in VA and have access to raw milk cheese but not raw milk at the moment. What about yogurt? I eat organic whole milk yogurt from Whole Foods…is that ok to eat if it has been pastureized? I’m just getting into this whole raw milk/cheese/yogurt thing so I trying to take baby steps. Any thoughts?

    Also, what is this GAPS diet that people are mentioning?

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    Tami
    19/04/2009 at 5:59 pm Permalink

    Ann Marie, I love your blog. I have referred many folks over to your info over the past few months! We recently switched to raw milk when I tested it on my 3 yr old son, who is allergic to just about everything on the planet. He didn’t react to it or any of the raw cheeses we tried! What a great testimony for my family! This last week on spring break we went to tour Organic Pastures dairy in Fresno. My blog on it is here. http://organichomeschooling.blogspot.com/2009/04/raw-milk-at-organic-pastures.html

    Tami’s last blog post..Raw Milk at Organic Pastures

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    cheeseslave
    20/04/2009 at 5:15 am Permalink

    Bay –

    It’s OK to eat some pasteurized dairy but I believe it’s important to try to consume raw milk in some fashion, i.e. in the form of raw milk cheese. Read this post I wrote about how dairy has to be raw in order to build strong bones and teeth:

    http://www.cheeseslave.com/2009/04/14/got-osteoporosis-drink-raw-milk/

    The GAPS diet is similar to the SCD or Specific Carbohydrate Diet. It is used for healing leaky gut, allergies, food intolerances, depression and other psychological issues and everything on the Autism Spectrum. http://www.gapsdiet.com

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    cheeseslave
    20/04/2009 at 5:18 am Permalink

    Tami, that is awesome! I would love to do that tour — I’m going to plan it when my daughter is a little older.

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    Julie
    25/04/2009 at 3:47 pm Permalink

    We love raw milk too! Have been buying it here in Utah for 4 years now. The closest farm is 50 miles away, but we’re in a co-op so we only have to drive once every 3 months (you have to buy raw milk straight from the farm here, it’s illegal to sell it out of stores, unless you own at least 50% of the retail outlet, and even then it can’t be sold where pasturized milk is also sold? Very screwed up law. They also outlawed cow shares here when this raw milk legislation went through a couple years ago.) I’m just happy we can get it somehow. I haven’t drank milk for 18 years, but started again with the raw milk recently and I love it! Both my children (ages 7 & 3) love it as well. I would be more scared having my children drink pasturized milk than raw milk after educating myself on the health risks/benifits of both.

    Julie’s last blog post..sweet treats

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    Jenna Hoskinson
    26/08/2009 at 1:41 pm Permalink

    Hi and thanks so much for the great post! I was raised on raw milk, first from my parent’s goats and later raw cow’s milk. I have my own 2 yr old daughter now and just signed up for a goat herd-share program. Yay! I have a question for you – how can I convince my friends that drinking raw milk while pregnant is not going to harm the baby on the way? I just found out I’m expecting and a close friend is giving me grief about the raw milk. Everything in you post is excellent and I will share this with her, but it doesn’t specifically address pregnant women.

    Oh, one other question – I read somewhere that even cheese labeled as “raw” may have been heated to just below the pasteurization temp and still labeled raw. How can we find out for sure?

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    Pamela
    09/09/2009 at 5:32 pm Permalink

    Ann Marie……..I read this posting back you first posted.
    I just want to thank you for it and all the other posting you have on Raw Milk.
    I am going through all postings on here and other sites reviewing.
    My husbands digestive ills are multi faceted – in other words complicated.
    We’ve been changing over to a nutrient dense way of eating for over a year now, make kombucha, etc… The longer we’ve been doing this the more I am convinced what we think is severe lactose intolerance isn’t it but rather a result of his Ulcerative Colitis. UC will create all sorts of troubles. So I think that when he first tried to drink raw last summer it backfired not because he’s intolerant but because he had some very serious health issues at the time.
    So I am now restudying …… I am a raw milk drinker myself. We have a good supply of organic raw goats milk that is even certified by the state of Kansas to sell. I am thinking if I get him started on raw milk now while he is stable and do it slowing even if it means a bout here and there….over time we can see healing take place.
    Thanks again……I am working on a posting on my blog at some point on the benefits of Raw Dairy.

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    Gary Los Angeles
    19/09/2009 at 8:34 am Permalink

    Great good sense positive website I really appreciate here, thankyou!!!

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    tommy
    15/10/2009 at 10:05 am Permalink

    hi am tommy i regulerly drink raw milk.which i get from shop
    i want to know is that good for health?

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    Jessica
    03/01/2010 at 3:16 am Permalink

    I get raw milk from a locally respected farmer, but I don’t experience it “never going bad” like people have said on here. What might be wrong? After just a week it seems weird tasting, not like the first 5-6 days after I pick it up. I keep it in the fridge, but apparently it should stay fresh regardless. Can anyone help me out?

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    Mya
    15/01/2010 at 2:41 pm Permalink

    I grew up in Louisiana. We had twenty acres and grew our own vegetables and had a milk cow. I loved that milk! When I was in high school we had to get rid of the cow as she stopped producing milk. We started buying milk. I stopped drinking as much and I beliee that’s when my dental problems started. Now I cna’t buy raw milk in Louisiana. and That stinks!

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    cheeseslave
    15/01/2010 at 5:01 pm Permalink

    Jessica – A week seems normal. We drink our milk pretty fast. We buy it in bulk and freeze it and it only stays in the fridge a few days.

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    Jeanmarie
    13/03/2010 at 10:40 pm Permalink

    Ann Marie, thanks for this wonderful post and all the work you put into it. I agree, the treatment of confinement dairy cows is a big part of the issue for me. I can’t tell who is telling the truth about the bacteria, good and bad, found in raw milk, (though I’m inclined to believe the WAPF over, say the FDA and CDC), but I do know that I don’t want to support the factory farming system, and small, family-owned raw milk dairies are a better solution from that standpoint alone. Thanks!
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    Kevin Saunders/KGS Bikes
    27/04/2010 at 10:24 am Permalink

    I have been seeing my clients interest in better eating and I am thrilled to see this blog post that I can now share! Thank you so much.
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