Hedgehogs4 Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 I am considering buying a share in a raw dairy coop. Before I do, though I want to be sure that the health benefits of consuming raw dairy products far outweigh the hassles and cost associated with the coop. We were given a sample of the milk, butter and yogurt yesterday, and the kids love it. Up to this point we have been using organic milk and yogurt, but I would like to go unpasteurized. Is there really a benefit to this health-wise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 We have not had a sniffle in the 2 1/2 yrs we've been drinking it (just had our first bout of sickness recently). We would not go back to being without it! And it's SOOOO yummy! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyAberlin Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 We use raw milk. My dh is the one that has researched raw milk and its benefits. I do know that it is easier to digest when it is unpasteurized and that it contains good bacteria that helps your digestive track out and that good bacteria gets killed in the pasteurization process. I would make sure it is a state certified dairy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patchfire Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 It is the only thing that has totally cleared dd's eczema. I can tell if she's not drinking enough milk because it will start to come back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalicoKat Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Ir's flu prevention stuff! My mom called me all excited this a.m. Evidently in WI they had a list of three things you could do to prevent the flu. 1. eat salmon 2. take probiotics 3. drink raw milk this was on their local news channel. I've been trying to find a link with no luck. I'll keep looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProudGrandma Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Don't forget about the lack of hormones in raw milk. Wonder why girls are reaching puberty much earlier than they used to??? could this have something to do with it??? I believe so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 We tried it, maybe not for long enough - about 3 months - and it didn't do anything for us and we have serious allergy, etc. issues. I quit because it was hard to get and... because of lack of pasteurization it got "fizzy" sometimes. Everyone says there's nothing wrong with it, but I just couldn't drink it like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amy g. Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 We have another eczema success story. My 11 year old had bleeding eczema until she started drinking raw milk, and bathing with goat milk soap. She has not had a break out in 3 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehogs4 Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Seriously!? My ds8 has battled eczema since he was 6 weeks old. We've tried every lotion, potion, and pill out there for the poor guy. But we haven't tried raw milk yet. I'm on it . . . have you tried coconut oil? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Atl Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I would jump at the chance, if $ and the opportunity came into being. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momtoboys Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I get scared because it isn't pasteurized. I buy organic, but my SIL bought raw from a farm and they all got sick from it. I don't know. I'm sure it's great for some people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I get scared because it isn't pasteurized. I buy organic, but my SIL bought raw from a farm and they all got sick from it. I don't know. I'm sure it's great for some people. From what I've read, there is a slightly lower chance of getting food poisoning from raw milk than unpasteurized. Maybe your SIL was unlucky with the raw milk and you've been lucky with your pasteurized milk! Naturally, I can't remember where I read it, but reading these things doesn't tend to help with the "ick!" factor, heheh. Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Governess Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 We have just started using raw milk. I don't drink much milk but I do use it on my cereal, etc. and in my tea and coffee, and the girls each have one cup per day to drink. Honestly, I haven't really noticed a difference since we made the switch. I can't really even taste the difference. But it's only been a month or two and I don't really use all that much of it. We do buy whole organic or organic cream-top milk if we run out of the raw (we get raw through our veggie co-op on a weekly basis). Dh grew up on raw goat's milk and he gets sick very rarely. He is happy to be drinking minimally processed milk again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peela Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 If you drink milk- I would go for it. It tastes great and it is a real, unprocessed food as opposed to a highly processed and debateably toxic one. Raw milk is streaks ahead of pasteurised organic. Says me....heading toward raw food veganism and contemplating giving up cows milk altogether.....sniff sniff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepymommy Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 We've been drinking it for 3 years. I really only have it in cereal and tea. I make kefir out of it for ds2. I wouldn't say we've had any dramatic differences in our lives since on it. It's just IMO better from the standpoint of it's less processed, we know the farm where it comes from, we know the cows are healthy and well taken care of, and we're supporting a local farmer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovetobehome Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 If you think of it like you think of human breastmilk....it has LOADS of benefits that we only recently have been able to identify. Pasteurization kills all the good stuff, just like heating breast milk to high temps does. I inquired at a few local dairies, just asked them if they'd be willing to sell to me. I found one that will; the agreement is that we call it MILK FOR OUR PETS and not for human consumption, wink wink. We pay less for it at the dairy than we would for regular milk at the grocery store. And, they deliver it! This dairy has been around and I trust them. We count ourselves among the very fortunate to be able to get it. It is just nuts how hard/expensive it is to get healthy foods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornblower Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 (edited) Don't forget about the lack of hormones in raw milk. Wonder why girls are reaching puberty much earlier than they used to??? could this have something to do with it??? I believe so... Just because it's raw does not mean it's automatically hormone free though. Unless the farmer does not treat the herd with hormones..... whether it's raw or not is not going to make the difference. Canadian milk is all hormone free as they're banned here. I'm on the fence on this issue. I'm a huge proponent of breast milk for human babies. I'm not convinced that adult humans need the milk of any other species for any reason. Cow milk is biologically the perfect food for cow babies. At the same time most of us here are fortunate enough to not be eating a subsistence diet - we're not just eating things we 'need'. We're eating things we like, or things which we think might optimize our nutritional intake..... If I had my own cow, maybe, though I think I'd still want to pasteurize it. Brucellosis, campylobacter, ecoli...... You have to have a lot of faith in the farmer, the vaccination of the herd, health monitoring etc. After all, we began to pasteurize because of the diseases spread in the milk...... Anyway, my own suspicion is that it's probably better to cut dairy out altogether rather than switching to raw. Edited December 10, 2009 by hornblower somehow a lactation consultant ended up saying we didn't need milk - eeeeeek! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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