Comments on: The Fight Over Raw Butter

By: Paul Collins

Paul Collins — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:36:27 +0000

In reply to DonInKS. And yet it seems your from a state with little regulations of raw milk and none for butter?!

By: Archie

Archie — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 03:42:21 +0000

I don’t believe most consumers understand the strict adherence to food safety the commercial dairy farmer bears. Commercial raw milk – I believe – is safer. People want an illusion of safety, a rubber stamped certification: pasteurized, homogenized, fortified, UHT. I would ask do you even know what state industrial science your “milk” went through to get to your table – YOU DON’T. Many of today’s frankenmilk, liquid white dairy is taken apart reassembled and ultra-pasteurized so it could sit out next to chips and soda. They only refrigerate so you will buy it. Y’all don’t know milk! Wake up.

By: Megha Pradhan

Megha Pradhan — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 06:41:40 +0000

such wonderful article..

By: Krystal

Krystal — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 04:43:27 +0000

In reply to skip.

This is a unique perspective. I have known people switching to raw milk, but usually not the other way around.

We switched to raw milk after we discovered my kids couldn’t process the D3 vitamins added. I did a lot of research on milk production and it is a HIGHLY processed food
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-326/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-326.htm
In addition, my husband, who had been lactose intolerant to store bought milk, can now drink raw milk without ailment.

I have never heard that an immunity to raw milk can be lost. Could I please ask your source for that?

Likewise, my understanding was that unfiltered waters (many public water) is cautioned due to its toxicity, not necessarily bacteria/pathogens. Could I ask for your source about immunity to local drinking water?

I’m truly interested and tried to verify this information, but couldn’t. Could you send me some links please?

By: DonInKS

DonInKS — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 01:06:52 +0000

good, I hope the FDA doesn’t give in to them. Lots of folks have forgotten all the various milk borne diseases that are still around. And every so often even allowed raw milk producers will have disease pop up and make folks sick. if you want raw dairy, get a cow or a goat.

By: skip

skip — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 01:31:25 +0000

I was brought up on a Guernsey dairy farm …we drank raw milk every day and we made our own butter and ice cream until the 1960s . Having left the farm 50 years ago, I have lost my all of my immunity to the pathogens that existed in the raw milk and raw butter that we consumed thus I would become quite ill if I consumed them today .
Pasteurization ensures that we are safeguarded against milk borne diseases ..here is an excellent list of such disease pathogens found in raw dairy products .
https://www.verywellhealth.com/got-milk-microbes-1958815
As a comparison …when we travel away from our homes we become habituated to buying bottled water even though the tap /well water is consumed by the locals ….we have no acquired immunity for the pathogens that exist in the local water but the locals are unaffected by drinking their own water because they have built up an acquired immunity . If they came to our area they would have to buy bottled water because they have no immunity to the pathogens that exist in our water …The same holds for raw milk and products made from .

By: Kathy Patrick

Kathy Patrick — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 20:25:58 +0000

I lived off unpasteurized milk and homemade butter growing up in ky was never sick with anything from eating it also collected eggs every day as well things were better for u. then to many regulations now as well as the stuff they put in every thing

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 02:09:16 +0000

I used to be able to buy raw butter from a farmer, then his cow died, now I can’t find any in Maine. I miss it!

By: Goatldi

Goatldi — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:20:26 +0000

My family has spent almost 40 years with raw milk (both our own goats and a share in Jersey cow). I enjoy what I feel are the health/immunity benefits of raw milk and butter.

I realize our products were own and the cow share local. If indeed the change in law shipping across state lines is the “assumption “ to the decrease in accessibility I say this.

How about if we as a country give people the ability to choose there own foodstuff and if educated in the potential benefits/hazards still choose to consume something that is their choice.

If this hadn’t become such a litigious country and it appears the goal is to eliminate everything anyone feels is dangerous we may still have that choice.

And the funny thing is no one (to my knowledge) has banned spinach being shipped between state lines. But it typically harbors a norovirus that causes vomiting and diarrhea and occasionally E. coli.

In closing perhaps there is more concerns about things which have nothing to do with public health. Perhaps money. Just saying.

By: Jeanne Luddeni

Jeanne Luddeni — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:00:57 +0000

I love raw milk and butter here in Michigan you buy a share and presto it’s done. Delish.