Is milk a panacea? Milk is not usually a hot topic of conversation. Do not get me wrong, there have been great bets in college to drink a gallon in an hour. There was that time the milk smelled so bad, I threw out everything in the fridge. Oh, and that night I poured milk all over her… All that aside, milk is usually a bland and creamy delicious part of the day I just do not feel the need to discuss, but apparently all that has changed.
Milk is the new drug of choice for a select group of unorthodox health nuts. What is at stake: raw milk. Illegal altogether in most states, legal for pets in some, and only for sale on location at farms in some others, people want it and they want it now. There is a craze going on in places where groups want raw, unpasteurized milk sold in stores for its nutritional value. Some research has been done on the benefits of raw milk, but there are a whole host of possible illnesses that can be contracted from raw milk. An article in the Boston Globe really gets thorough with the discussion, if you want more information on the topic.
The short and dirty of it: raw milk contains certain good bacteria that could be very beneficial, I repeat, could be beneficial to the development of a stronger immune system, especially in young children. The dangers include bad bacteria, listeria, salmonella, and E. coli among others. But, these dangers rarely occur in clean healthy milking facilities. The problem: Most big milking farms are not clean. Quality control is not easy in a big dairy farm, especially since 1920’s when pasteurization became widespread. Just read what current raw milk dairy farmer thinks about it:
Rick Vreeland is in the perfect position to explain the differences between a big dairy farm and a small one. At Freedom Hill Farm, they’ve gone from nine to 22 cows, but he used to own a dairy farm with 2,000 cows. He says he wouldn’t have downed the milk from his old operation.
Crazy as it might be, I am down for some raw milk. My grandfather cared for a milking cow when he was child and drank it fresh from the teet. He claims there is nothing quite like it and all the milkrazies agree. My mission: find raw milk and try it asap. Here’s where I start: Real Milk
Filed under: Food, Health, Science | Tagged: bacteria, Boston Globe, E. coli, immune system, listeria, milk, milkrazies, pasteurize, Rick Vreeland, salmonella
Wow. I am severely disappointed in you µbrain… But hey go ahead and drink the
koolaidraw milk..“Milk is the new drug of choice for a select group of unorthodox health nuts.”
If by select group, you mean one “Foundation” eerily named the Weston A. Price Foundation.. Their agenda is simple–rob the consumer’s rights and give them to the farmers who would rather sell you deadly raw milk than have to pay a little more to ensure the cleanliness of their product.
These assholes are headed by Sally Fallon and “Dr.” Mary Enig.. The two have combined before to bestow upon us the wonders of coconuts…
The 501(c)3 Foundation funded the “study” mention in the Boston Globe… you know the one that says raw milk can be consumed by people with lactose intolerance?? While that statement is technically true–lactose intolerant people are certainly within their rights to consume a liquid that is almost guaranteed to give them some pretty shitty symptoms, It flies in the face of the FDA and also tells us that The boobs at WAPF have no idea how lactose intolerance works….
But hey we all should make up our own minds about drinking poison… because there isn’t much evidence against it.
Drkllpnt is right. The milk must be past your eyes.
Who are you talking to in your hidden messages??
” YES” “THERE” “IS!!!” “DUMBASS” “Read a fuckin book man”
This seems directed at someone. Wii would like to know who.
By the way, i dont think anybody cares that you said boobs…therefore noone will do anything about it. :]
just common logic Drkllpnt.
Hello JuneBug welcome to themicrocosm…
The “hidden” message you refer to is actually a feature of HTML 4.0 code sometimes called a “tool tip.” As such they are only displayed when the mouse icon is over the link. Because this site uses Snap Shots, the tool tips are sometimes difficult to see. Also your browser can be set to block them as well, but I personally enjoy them, as you might have noticed…
As far as who they are intended for? Well that would be whomever is reading them I guess. Now, because you are new here and are almost certainly unfamiliar with my style of writing (in both the ‘grammatical’ and ‘visual’ sense) I’ll offer a few examples as there have been others who have seemingly mistaken my comments as rude and unthoughtful. Actually very little of what I write on this blog is directed at any one individual. If I am addressing a certain person, I will use their username instead of the word “you” e.g. in this comment, many people felt as though I was ‘attacking’ IntellectuallyActive. While I did address her on 5 things in that comment, it was taken to believe that I also said that IntellectuallyActive would be “getting off alone” or was a “gold-digging bitch” or “annoying”. These words were used in the comment, but they reference passages from the article. Unless the article in the magazine itself was referring specifically to IntellectuallyActive, there isn’t any way to attach my statements mentioned above to IntellectuallyActive either.
As far as your second comment goes: “adversus solem ne loquitor”, Res ipsa loquitur.
“Oh, one more thing…” if you happen to see IntellectuallyActive, could you please tell her to come back from outer space?
JuneBug, I was just curious why drkllpnt couldn’t include a “tool tip” on the word “it” at the end of the statement. It was such a let down. See, you sit here each morning expecting something clever, really clever and are left hanging at the end of the sentence with nothing!
As for my search for raw milk, well, I have down many worse things in my life. I’ll risk it. You only live once and if I die from some wretched disease contracted from a taste of raw milk, well, so be it. When was the last time YOU went out on a limb and did something that was not in your comfort zone. And by you, I mean you!
My apologies, he kind of know how to find things on the net… IE can be shit, go FIREFOX! Fuck that, I’m still going to use Explorer.
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