The FDA is all up in arms because 47 people got sick from drinking milk. 47 out of hundreds of thousands of people who regularly drink raw milk. At just 100,000 that's .047% and the actual number of people is much higher. Less than 5 people out of 10000 people getting sick, at the highest.
I find it ridiculous that the FDA would get so worked up over such a low probability. People should be allowed to eat and drink whatever they want to. Next they're not going to allow us to buy fresh vegetables. People can get sick from those too, you know. And canned foods can make you sick. And frozen or dried foods can be contaminated also. I think the best bet is not to eat anything, since there's that ever present chance of getting sick. Like playing Russian Roulette with your health with every bite you eat... or some nonsense like that.
Dawnof AR8:20PM April 08, 2013
LOL, this article is ridiculous. The comments are far more well-informed and insightful. Talk about propaganda...good night!
Rayof FL12:31AM March 23, 2013
Thanks for your concern about ecoli, etc. Actually there is a massive smear campaign in progress against raw milk and food freedom, so you really have to think carefully before believing information about it in our corporate controlled mass media.
Farmers forced to sell their milk to large milk producers to be pasteurized and homogenized also are robbed of their profits. If they could sell their milk directly, their profit would be far greater. (See www.naturalnews.com/035286_raw_milk_rural_economies_farmers.html) Of course they can be held up to necessary safety testing. But the hypocritical, fascist, corporate controlled government wants to claim that raw milk, regardless of how it is produced and no matter how much safety testing is involved, is inherently dangerous and unsafe for the public, despite rejecting proposals to improve conventional milk quality and safety. Why not let people choose?
Honestly, the director of the Food and Drug Adminstration's Division of Dairy and Egg Safety, as quoted in this article is one of the LAST people I would believe. The FDA has TOTALLY SOLD out to big business, it is a JOKE... They no longer protect the people, they protect the corporations which bribe them!!!! Take a look at the revolving door between FDA and corporations such as Monsanto, another menace to society.
Sorry didn't mean to go off on a soapbox here, I think everyone should be allowed to make their own decisions, but beware there is a lot of politics and PROFITS involved here, not just "health" reasons.
jimbochoof CA4:29PM March 22, 2013
raw milk must be boiled for sterilisation
when I was a child we had a special pot for boiling the milk,like everygody in the nation : no disease,no problem !!!
we did never hear about AUTISM : nowaday 100 000 children born a year with autistic syndrome,because pregnant mother taking aspartame with diet sodas!!!and other means(sugar sobstitute)
F.E.Cavallo , MDof NY6:42PM March 01, 2013
The government has no problem with you eating raw oysters which feed on fish poop. My wife's grandmother died from an infection after eating raw oysters. But big industry isnt in competition with oysters. Milk on the other hand is huge business. And they can't produce clean raw milk in the disgusting dairies they operate. It's that simple. The dairy industry can't compete.
Craigyof TX4:41PM February 14, 2013
What a bunch of propaganda! Raw Milk has been consumed by Humans for many thousands of years! Now this industry funded rag is going to tell us it's dangerous? And we should drink the mass produced hormone filled product they call Pasteurized Milk....it needs to be pasteurized because the big companys that produce it, operate filthy, disease filled, over crowded industrial milk extraction operations...and the quality and cleanliness of the milk is terrible....so they just cook it to make it safe. Read the history of Pasteurization in dairy products, and how it came to be. It's very interesting.
and, by the way, Raw Milk is much healthier than Pasteurized. Do you know why you have to add calcium to pasteurized milk in order to get a clean break when making cheese? Because the pasteurization actually changes the structure of the milk. Homoligation is even worse...it changes the structure of the Milk Fat, making it much more dangerous..(the process actually makes the fat globule much smaller, so they don't rise to the top, which means they pass right through your intestine wall, rather than being digested in the gut...the milk fat passes directly into the blood stream, where it must be metabalized by the liver. It's bad stuff. Stick to Raw Milk. You will live much longer, and it tastes much better.
It amazing how reasonable this article sounds.....typical misinformation. Luckily most people see right through it. Some shill will be on shortly to try to de-bunk me...that is if this post even sees the light of day!
Matt Cusumanoof CA11:41PM January 15, 2013
I think there are many benefits to raw milk and cream, i think many people want to hide the benefits and focus only on the bad they can point out. Back in the day of horse and buggy, people lived on real food, it's processed foods in a bag or can that cause a lot of illiness in my opinion. Stop hating the Real Food and go after Taco Bell, McDonalds etc..... the real foods that are killing people!
Lisa of CA9:11PM December 11, 2012
If you did more research, you find much more supporting the benefits of raw milk then you have found here. There's a reason why people are drawn to quality, unadulterated food. Raw dairy products have been used for centuries across the world for healing. Who's to say that the "science" as to the "harm" of raw milk wasn't tainted. You can manipulate ANY STUDY you conduct. How are we 100% sure that the milk from which the people got sick from weren't sick cows. Cows that were fed antibiotices, grains, or medications. So many blanket statements. There's the media for you.
WBCof UT4:24PM December 03, 2012
This Sheehan obviously does not know what she is talking about when she says there are not benefits if drinking raw milk. I've lived on a farm in California for decades and talked to numerous nutritionalits and I know the innumerable benefits of raw milk. The useless pasteurized sludge that comes from our supermarkets that is called "milk" is the danger. We are one of the few countries in the world that are preoccupied with raw milk, and the rest of the world has been drinking it for centuries. Who is the most unhealthy country in the world with the most lactose-intolerant???? Hmmm... I am lactose intolerant due to using normal milk in the past, but as soon as I switched over to raw, my condition reversed itself. You've got to love news organizations who listen to dummies.
Cameronof CA3:13PM September 27, 2012
Hellllllooooooooooooooooooooo...sushi can kill you!!! In fact ANYTHING we eat or drink can kill you!!!!
I raised all five children of mine on raw milk and my husband grew up on raw milk, as did his parents and their parents and their parents and so on and so and so on...our grandchildren are being raised on raw milk as well.
If the gov. wants to control something so desperately, let them start with something that we know kills thousands every year...tobacco, alcohol, and drugs!
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