Posted by Kell on March 04, 2012 at 10:58:33 from (66.44.159.20):
In Reply to: Ot: raw milk posted by JayinNY on March 03, 2012 at 19:39:43:
At least 30 states in the US allow raw milk sales. Most of these states only legalize farmer-to-consumer direct sales, but several allow retail sale also.
Here is Vermont's law: http://www.vermontagriculture.com/fscp/dairy/documents/Title_6_Chapter_152.pdf
Having read the law, I can say there are reasonable safety measures in place that ensure, to a great extent, the safety of the raw milk product. Most states have similar reasonable requirements for those who produce and sell raw milk.
It is my opinion that locally produced raw milk products can be safer for you to consume than mass produced and distributed milk products, provided that the farmer follows good sanitary practices and regularly monitors the health of each of his or her cows.
It should be obvious to anyone that pasteurization allows the farmer to ship milk to processors with higher SCC(infection) and bad bacteria levels. You don't know it, and probably don't care, because the label says pasteurized and homogenized. You can safely consume just about anything if it has been processed enough! You regularly consume unimaginably disgusting things in mass-distributed products from the grocery store, and I am not talking about unusual body parts here, but animal, and in some cases, human waste.
Ignorance certainly can be a blissful state of mind, but I feel getting milk and other food goods locally from a small operation where you can see and judge production conditions for yourself, is significantly more healthy than consuming bodily waste that has been pasteurized and processed enough to be considered safe for human consumption.
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