Raw Milk: Good For You?

Milk consumption dates back over 10,000 years and was renowned for its healing powers. In a glass of real milk or "raw" milk (straight from the udders of a grass fed cow that has not been genetically engineered or cloned) is a complete balanced meal. If one had to live on it alone they could.

In one glass of raw milk contains:

• Proteins
• Carbohydrates
• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Enzymes
• Cholesterol
• Beneficial Bacteria

Raw milk has been proven to reverse disease and improve health. Processing, according to those who are in favor of raw milk distribution causes such diseases as osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, and cancer. Milk in its natural form has always been a healthy food. After pasteurization, milk became a commodity.

Louis Pasteur

Pasteur gained notoriety in the 1800s when mold was affecting wine crops at a rapid rate. In stepped Pasteur, a French chemist who developed the concept which saved wine growers from financial ruin. His findings asserted uncleanliness causes disease. He developed a process which harmful microbes in perishable food products were destroyed using heat, without destroying the food. There is one major flaw in the research critics say. Pasteurization does not kill ALL harmful microbes in milk and it DOES harm the milk.

What is pasteurization?

Pasteurization refers to the process of heating milk to at least 130 degrees F. for at least 45 seconds or heating milk to 160 degrees F for at least 15 seconds. Bottom line, pasteurization lengthens the shelf life of milk. Critics of the pasteurization process believe it destroys the beneficial components naturally present in raw milk. Instead of wasting rancid milk or feeding it to their hogs, farmers could now pass this altered milk-form on to consumer by taking sour milk and making it more desirable, thus increasing their profits. Making milk money became big business. Pasteurized milk is just another processed food with side effects worth mentioning.

Damage through pasteurization?

• Pasteurization destroys nutritional properties, vitamins, enzymes, and minerals present in "raw" milk.
• Heating milk creates contaminants such as lipid oxidants and protein toxins.
• Heat treating milk interferes with calcium metabolism. 50% of milk's calcium is unusable and cannot be assimilated in the body after pasteurization.
• Causes diabetes, osteoporosis, cancers, allergies, ear infections, eczema, lactose intolerance, asthma, constipation, etc.
• Before pasteurization became the standard, doctors would go their entire careers without seeing cases of diseases (prostate, breast cancer) which are common in today's society.

Raw milk good for you...

• Helps clear up allergies, particularly in children.
• Raw milk reduces the recurrence of middle-ear infections.
• Raw milk helps build and strengthen the immunity we need to resist pathogens.
• Drinking raw milk reduces risks for cancers (colon, prostate, breast)
• Lowers risk of osteoporosis
• Lowers risk of kidney stones
• Enhances fertility and reproduction

Pottenger Cat Study (1940s)

One group of cats on raw milk...

Another on heated or pasteurized milk...

Those that drank the heated milk experienced...

• Skeletal changes
• Decreased reproductive capacity
• Suffered from infectious and degenerative diseases common today
• Experienced acute illnesses (diarrhea, vomiting)

Those that drank raw milk were active and experienced good health and reproduced for generations.