My Two Cents on the Raw Milk Brouhaha

There’s really no need to point out to the hopeless morons opposed to raw milk that nature knows best. Milk, straight from the cow, is OBVIOUSLY far better for you than any manipulated product. It contains all of the amino acids, cutting down the body’s need to manufacture them out of the essentials. Some people have lived on nothing but milk, straight from the udder. No need to argue over the ‘high fat content’ of what comes perfectly made. The way it’s made is superior, no matter what new trend comes about. From yaks to cows to goats, Mama Nature knows best, and feeds us from her breast.

Vegans who proclaim all the dangers of milk are not wrong. The kind of milk that causes diseases, deficiencies, and intolerances is processed milk. When we drink defatted milk, we are not able to absorb the nutrients. When we take in growth hormones, we take in poisons. And pasteurization kills many of the nutrients and the enzymes needed to digest milk.

Pasteurized milk is pretty much dead milk, instead of living and thriving with a multitude of nourishing gifts. Yes, the process kills a few bacteria- but there’s no guarantee, and far more food poisoning cases happen with pasteurized milk than with raw milk purchases. You may risk some bacteria in favour of the dozens of extra vitamins and minerals. You probably will risk nothing, if you get to know your farmer, and familiarize yourself with the heavily regulated raw milk market. Remember, the so-called advantage of pasteurized milk is lower risk of bacteria. But actually, you still have a risk.

Why is that? Because raw milk contains lactic acid, an in-built system to kill off pathogens. Cows fed on grass create perfect raw milk. Why? Because grass is the right food for cows. As soon as you start feeding cows grain, their milk begins becomes less wholesome. Fed soy? The cows are sick. Soy is poison. Soy beans are soil fertilizer, not cow food. The poor health of cows raised for food and milk is lamentable. But one of the big reasons for their diseases is that they are fed soy foods. I got a letter from a dairy farmer in England who told me all about what happened to her cows when she switched to the cheaper soy diet. This is for real.

Cows fed grass like nature intended make milk like nature intended.

I don’t care what kind of milk you drink. It’s hard to find raw milk where I am because it’s against the law, for shame. If you have access to raw milk, the choice is yours and I don’t really care what choice you make, though it’s always right to support local farms and traditional farming methods if you can. But ultimately, I don’t care. I am forced to use supermarket milk when I drink it, or for my coffee.

But what I never want to read again in a letter to the editor or online chat is this:
“If people want to drink raw milk, go ahead, but we don’t want to pay their hospital bills if they get sick. Our taxes shouldn’t pay for that foolishness.”

This is the kind of tripe and bull from absolute idiots. Dude, puhleeze, I don’t want to pay your hospital bills from your Snapple and Oh Henry habit.

I couldn’t find any solid stats on how many people die annually from raw milk, except an anecdotal one that there have been two deaths in the past seven years. It may be significantly higher, and I’ll be happy to see the studies if you send them. However, I would also like to know how many people died slipping on a banana peel, from chemical bubble bath allergies, from getting stuck in a snowstorm naked, from drinking regular milk, from a rare reaction to kale, and so on.

The point being, you can die from anything. We want to minimize death, yes. But raw milk can protect you from so many diseases by boosting your health…and we all know what the big causes of death are in North American, don’t we?

Your medication, that’s right, death by prescription. It’s a top cause of death. Raw milk was used as medicine for thousands of years. The other causes?

This is for Mr. Everyman who always writes that letter to the editor I told you about. Whining about the health bill for those two people in the past five years. Put down your Coca Cola and your whisky, my good friend, and I’m as guilty as you are. Who’s gonna pay our bill? Because sugar causes all the diseases that raw milk misses, you know, the biggest killers we have- and you know what they are: heart disease, cancer, stroke, accidental injury, respiratory disease, and diabetes. (I suppose accidental injury is not caused by sugar-unless you dropped a case of gummy bears on your head!) So drink less booze, throw out your soda, flush the cigarettes, and buy a cow for your backyard.