On 3/22/2010 10:01 AM, John B wrote:
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Like most of the arcane mysteries that most of humanity used to take
for granted, this one turned out to be (well, so far, anyway) more
daunting in the anticipation than in the breech.

What with online research and shopping, today's hobbyist can easily
plunge into the past and get a glimmering of what things used to be
like. Beer?.....easy. You can get anything from one time kits to to
a microbrewery at the click of a mouse. Wine?.....ditto. Cheese?

Well, it turns out that timing is critical for some things. Cheese
starts with fesh milk. Unpasteurized is better (and, according to a
potential source we spoke with, illegal to sell.....one presumes it is
also illegal to purchase),
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giles

There are many advocates of raw milk, and the case against it is strictly to
prohibit the farmer from selling to the public. gotta have that middleman,
much like a C.J. McLin's (Ohio State Rep. deceased) attempt to require
persons being cremated to be embalmed...he also ran a funeral home.

"Herdsharing" is legal in Ohio. You sign a long time contract for a farmer
to manage your livestock. Not smoke and mirrors. And, that gives you the
right to collect the milk of your portion of the herd.

john



Ah... well.. maybe, maybe not.

From the journal Dairy Science (1999 Dec, 82:12):
"Bulk tank milk from 131 dairy herds in eastern South
Dakota and western Minnesota were examined for
coliforms and noncoliform bacteria. Coliforms were
detected in 62.3% of bulk tank milk samples... noncoliform
bacteria were observed in 76.3% of bulk tank milk."

So, salmonellosis, campylobacteriosis, brucellosis, yersiniosis,
listeriosis, staphylococcal enterotoxin poisoning, streptococcal
infections, tuberculosis, E. Coli 0157:H7, whatever..... Do a little
research and you may modify your thinking about raw cow's milk.

Then there is Johne's disease that studies say infect somewhere around
8% of America's herds....and which is very hard to diagnose in younger
animals without testing...and maybe that is where people get Crohn's
disease, and maybe it's not. Don't know. I know about Crohn's because a
friends sister-in-law (who was a raw milk advocate) was diagnosed with
Crohn's and after a few years of misery committed suicide.... Conrad (my
friend) is convinced that what she had was a human form of Johne's. All
the science I've looked at suggests this can't be true, but......


The 'all natural is best' thinking can get a person into serious trouble
sometimes.....

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