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Just dont try to sell it! I guess it is legal in MO., but you can't sell it on the street, or on public property, some sort of crap. Anyway a few months ago the Milk Nazis did some sort of a sting operation and arrested a dairy farmer around Springfield MO. Dont know all the details. Our founding fathers are rolling in their graves.

Gene
 
I was talking to a dairy farmer from Marion, South Dakota last summer. Asked him about a dairyman's son who I went to school with. We decided they must not be milking anymore, because they were coming to him for their fresh milk! Greg
 
I dont anymore but we used to keep a "family cow" that was supposedly 1/2 Gurnsey, 1/4 Jersey and 1/4 Ayrshire AND BOY WAS THAT MILK RICH. I sure dont need all that butterfat anymore but after we had her and our own milk the store bought stuff tasted like water after that. The first wife made butter but for some reason I didnt think it tasted all that great. We later raised and milked goats because the oldest son needed it and that tasted great also.

John T
 
The 6 generations of familys on our farm have been drinking our fresh raw milk since 1864 ; about 17 local familys get milk from cows grazed on our farm each week ... some get enough to make there own cheese or yogrt;( no corporations or big chain stores involved hear;;)just one trys to make butter ! In this area local growen Food (veg., beef, pork, eggs, lamb.) is beginning to catch on.. www.local harvest. org ::: www.real milk . com
 
Dad still does, but it's a bit too rich for me nowadays. We used to drink it, not sure why Mom made the switch and I can't remember when either, but now I'm on 2%.

I could never figure out in grade school why the white milk never tasted any good during lunch, so I always went with chocolate. Now looking back it's because it was pasturized 2%. My youngest neice (10 mo.) is on raw milk from the cooler because she was always pukey and stunk like it all the time. Mom said that our oldest brother was like that back then too, and the raw milk helped out. My brother put her on it and his wife wasn't too fond of it at first (a city girl) but after a couple months and she doesn't stink anymore, she goes with it.

I'm convinced.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Read the story in the November 2009 Hoards Dairyman, "Drinking raw milk is a raw deal"
35 people sickened in Wisconsin from raw milk, from a out break tied to the organism Campylobacter jejuni. I have drank raw milk but I guess you never know.J
 
Our family has been drinking fresh Jersey milk and making our butter for well over 20 years now. Nothing better than that Jersey milk.
 
I don't anymore but there was nothing better than when I was a teenager milking Jerseys for my neighbor. It was best when it hadn't had any chance of separating and was so cold it would have frozen if the agitator in the tank wasn't turning.
 
I am acquainted with the people involved. For a long time they had arranged to meet their Springfield customers at a parking lot in front of a health food store. I don't think the management of the store had anything to do with it. Anyway, a couple of undercover agents from the Springfield health department came up to them and asked about buying some milk. They were told that they had to make arrangements in advance. The narcs persisted. The farmer allowed as how one of their customers had called to say they wouldn't be coming. So yes, they did have one extra gallon. Well, they went ahead and sold it to them since the narcs really wanted to buy some milk like right now.

Missouri law allows a 'consumer' to purchase raw milk at a dairy farm or arrange for it to be delivered to them. The law does not specifically say that anyone can actually sell raw milk, just that you can buy it. Some people in the legislature have tried over the past few years to clarify the wording to specifically allow the sale of raw milk. That is why the farmer got in trouble, because the undercover agent had not arranged in advance for the delivery but had purchased it on the spot.

Christopher
 
You bet I do. I sold my herd of milk cows in 2000 but I have a small herd being started again. I have one cow I milk at home for feeding calves and home use, and then 15 heifers. I have 6 cows in milk at a neighbors place till I get a big enough herd to start shipping again. Don't plan on drinking anything other than raw milk again. I saw the article in Hoards and it kind of ------ me off. The way it was written is very biased and can easily be refuted.
 
I'm moderately lactose intolerant, so no milk for me. I can handle modest amounts of cheese though... One guy I work with drinks an entire gallon of milk every shift. If I tried that, I'd probably die..or if I didn't, I'd probably wish I would!
 
Used to use it out of the bulk tank just for coffee or cereal milk. Just couldn't stomach drinking it straight up-made me gag!Too damn rich/thick!
 
Back in the 50s I worked on my sister and brother-in-laws diary farm in the summers. They had five kids at the time so I guess that's why she had a pasteurizer for their drinking milk. Back home we drank raw milk from a diary close to town. Mom churned a lot of butter and it sure was good. David...................
 
Friend of mine that I went to school with is a dairy farmer. We go to his place every week with a couple of gallon jugs and get them filled with fresh milk
 
With no stomach a foot of intestine and very little bowel, I have to have raw skim milk, I make cottage cheese and rinse it in a collander. I make ice milk and fruit smoothies. No butterfat, homoginized or pastureized. I have to have a teaspoon of butter a day from raw milk, no salt. Kept me alive for 53 years so far....James
 
i still drink milk out of the tank. its about a half gallon a day this time of year. in the summer, i'll go through a gallon a day. i'm not going to buy retail what i sell at wholesale, especially when the store milk doesn't taste as good as mine.
 
I've gotten hooked on yogurt made from fresh goats milk. It is a slightly thick liquid and more tart than you can believe. I like to take a quart or so along in the summer when I'm making hay or doing some other field work. Drink that while I'm working and I don't have to stop for a meal!

Christopher
 
Never bothered trying to make butter, but my 4-year old son and I drink the good stuff from the tank. Ethan will when he's a bit older. Holsteins, but they test around 4-4.2% butterfat and 3-3.2% protein. My wife drinks that store-bought watery stuff (skim).
 
Drinking raw milk is something you don"t want to do if the herd has Johne"s Disease, and a high percentage do. Does not come through into the commercial product.
 
It was done here every day here in our family since they moved here from Whales in the 1830's (not all in this location,kind of immigrated around the area as families grew).We still milk,but since our first child was born we recieved SEVERE warnings from our health nurse of all the life threatening diseases we were about to expose our children to with raw milk.Since than on,we only use pasturized in the fridge,same with Mom and Dad.They like the skim (yuck),my Wife and I like 1% and the kidds drink 3.25%.No one ever got sick in our family from raw milk ,but I would never forgive myself if I ever caused my children sickness from doing somthing I knew was high risk.
 
I grew up on fresh milk and churned butter. Even after Dad dropped the dairy herd we still had an old Jersey cow around for milk. Then I went to work on a dairy and had all I wanted. Nothing better than fresh milk, cream and butter. Now they say it is bad for you, well I left that business at the age of 26 and am now 55 and haven"t been diagnosed with any side effects from it. It is probably way better than all the preservatives we ingest into our bodies now days.
 
With the saination and the cooling of the milk today it is a better product then the store bought milk. It is a pure product no preservatives no add chemicals just pure holsome MILK. Our goverment should just quit making laws to try to keep us out of harms way and let the people use a thing called common sence. If you make a mistake you learn from it and don't do it anymore.
 
I know there is alot of theory about Johnes being related to Crohns in humans but there has been conclusive studies done that prove no correlation. I realize Johnes is a nasty wasting disease in cattle but no evidence it does anything to humans.
 
Yes we do drink milk right from the barn, and always have. We make ice cream and cheese, and of coarse have milk in the fridge for drinking and cooking. Anyone can milk a cow and use the milk for thier own use here in Canada,but not to sell. The sale of milk is highly regulated, and you must hold quota and all milk must be sold through a porvincal marketing board to a government inspected dairy. It is a public safety issue . I know my cows are heathly and are free from TB and mastitis ,that milking conditions in the barn are sanitary as can be possible. That all said I do think that there are people who would knowingly sell milk that was not of high health standered just to make a profit . I have never sold raw milk and will never sell raw milk to any one other than a dairy. If some one is of the opinion that raw milk is better I say go ahead and get a cow and milk her twice a day and feed her and breed her and clean up after her , and they will lose intrest real quick .
 
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