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[kittyface]

A question for those of you who consume raw milk or raw milk products. Do you give them to your kids? How old were your kids when you started to? Why do Americans die after eating unpasteurised cheese, but this never seems to happen in France, where most/all cheese is unpasteurised?

Basically, what's the story with raw milk?

Comments

Re: The FDA is full of sh*t...

[chaeri]

yup exactly. we are getting raw milk at 5/gallon which is actually cheaper than the organic milk at teh store.

Re: The FDA is full of sh*t...

[the_questess]

lucky! It costs $10/gal in my area

[gemfyre]

I'd be supposing it had a bit to do with the germophobia and subsequent immune compromising happening in the U.S. Whereas the French have been eating raw dairy for hundreds of years and are used to it.

European cows are possibly not as intensively farmed as American cows and less susceptible to salmonella and other diseases.

[the_gersemi]

There is the same scare about drinking raw milk here in Germany, big No-No. But we're perfectly happy eating raw cheese. *shrugs*

I, personally, wouldn't even know where to get raw milk here. We used to buy it when I was a kid and lived in this really tiny village, but now I wouldn't know any place where I could legally buy it. Farmers need a special permit to be able to sell raw milk.

[mawychick]

When I was a kid we drank raw goats milk, and noone in my family Ever had a problem.

[antayla]

Ditto.

[extraspecialk]

yeah, my mom got raw milk for me from a family farm in the late 70s/early 80s. I often wonder if that has contributed to my (*knock wood*) having way less allergies/food intolerances/general ill health than most people I know.

[sissi_in_wien]

I'm prefacing this with a disclaimer that the cows in question were "home cows," possibly one or at most three to a farm, and thus were without a doubt healthy and unstressed

[agraciado]

I don't have kids. But a friend of mine started having his boys drink raw milk right around the age of 10. They were worried about how the hormones in milk could effect them.

I actually became really interested in raw milk from french class when my teacher mentioned that they don't pasteurised cheese and there are some cheeses that can never be made/sold in America because of it.

Basically pasteurization stated when American cities started becoming more urban. The cows weren't living in the best conditions, they were getting sick/infections, and the bacteria that the cows had from being sick were getting passed onto whoever drank the milk. Instead of putting the cows in better more sanitary conditions, the government found out they could just pasteurize the milk and kill the germs.

In that Why Do Americans die thing, notice how it says that people got sick after drinking improperly pasteurized milk--the milk probably came from a sick cow on an unsanitary farm.