Yesterday, a friend posted this link to a Huffington Post article on raw milk. Boy, was I excited. Finally, the issue was getting before a huge audience.
Unfortunately, there were 40 comments on the article, most of them negative. Not only negative, but full of vitriol and ridicule. Boy, what a let down.
Perhaps some of you who are more familiar with raw milk may want to go and add your positive experiences. The overall nastiness kept me from commenting, because I was afraid of being tempted to lash back in kind.
If you do comment, please keep a civil tone and show how emotionally healthy you are (from drinking raw milk, of course) by not stooping to their level. Looks like we have a lot of work to do to reach America!
I do read your blog on a daily basis; as a goat farmer and a proponent of raw milk, specifically raw goat milk, I certainly consider your blog required reading.
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Raw milk is the only healthy milk. I encourage everyone to do his own homework and that includes homework from more sources than the FDA and their cohorts. Please get the total picture presented by both sides before making up your mind. Your health depends on it.
Hi Kimberly,
When I was researching for the article I wrote about Daniel Hauser’s mandated chemotherapy, I came across the same thing. People are quick to lash out based on their confidence of mainstream opinion being correct, especially behind the anonymity of the internet. This is why I tend to stay away from mainstream media and I feel the same way about commenting. It’s easy to burn out from the stress of trying to help people who don’t want to hear it. I’d much rather focus on educating the people who are open minded in hopes that word will eventually spread to the close minded.
Hopefully someone at least posted a link to realmilk.com.
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Yeesh. I don’t get why people get so incredibly upset when someone disrupts the mainstream apple cart with a “new” idea. And how is it that people feel free to judge without doing their research? Never ceases to amaze me…
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I read through those comments, and they are from three sources:
1) vegans and vegetarians;
2) “doctors” and industry people;
3) and people who are just linking and copying another newspaper article that says a claim against raw milk; these are people that have never read or critically thought about milk at all
Where has the critical thinking skills gone in our society? I remember I was taught this in earlier skill, and then all of a sudden, it just dropped off the radar, and it became “read, memorize, and repeat this”.
Excellent analysis, Jason, thanks for that! And, Vin, when I comment, I will definitely add the link to realmilk.com! Since I posted this, 18 more commnets have been posted, and the ones I saw were incredibly positive. So thanks everyone for helping to shed light on this important subject!
Yours in Raw Health!
Kimberly
A lot of people like to tell other people how to live. They think they know it all and have to protect us from making bad choices. That’s the problem with the world.
The issue, as some pointed out, is not about the virtue of raw milk but rather the right of citizens to enter into contracts with one another.
Great find. I don’t typically Huff, but the feedback that was being generated got me to think about the prevailing wisdom and its pervasive nature. Thanks for challenging the drones.
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What utter nonsense in the comments! So ill-informed. Case in point the veg*n claiming that all calves are separated from their mothers. I know that’s decidedly not the case at my dairy.
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When your diet is as strict and demanding as the vegan’s or vegetarian’s, then you’ll probably summon all the knowledge you have to argue against any diet that goes contrary to your philosophy. I think it’s a defensive measure that helps them stay on track.
I used to promote the raw, vegan diet until I read Weston Price’s work, which toppled my foundation. Then I noticed vegans disparaging Price. When questioned, none of them had read his book but they all felt qualified to criticize his work.
All we can do is be patient and love them. At least they are making hard choices and taking a stand for what they believe in. But boy, oh boy, they are annoying.
Me, I’m on the fence about milk consumption. I need to give it more study.
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*I’m* not kind to them. They’re telling other people to eat in a way that ultimately will kill them. Even if you feel healthier initially because you’ve cut a lot of crap out of your diet, in the long run you will suffer from nutritional deficiencies and endocrine problems, among other things. That’s not something I want them spreading to unsuspecting souls.
I have no problem at all with the idea of consuming milk. Steak is for cow muscles, eggs are for hatching baby birds, avocados are for feeding emerging avocado trees. Every food we eat is “really for” some other purpose. I view dairy as a way to make up for the fat we’re missing since so many of the fatty herd animals have died off over the last several millenia. Where other sources of good fat are available (and sources of A and D), a culture will get away with foregoing dairy but it’s not strictly necessary to avoid it. Just ask the traditional Maasai.
A lot of them comment on the sick children and say they would feel terrible if their child got sick drinking raw milk… but would you feel better if he got sick from FDA approved foods that have caused enough panic these past couple of years? Peanut butter, lettuce, cereal, spinach and several dairy products you buy in your local market?
If you have a trusted farmer in your area, stop listening to the politicians and the FDA (which approves drugs with warnings such as “May cause thoughts of suicide: or even “May Cause DEATH!”) and do your own research on the benefits of raw milk. You may notice that all the bacteria, they advertise is good for our immune system, good for digestion etc, which they now and push on us in the form of store bought yogurt, they say it’s not good in raw milk?
The raw milk has these bacteria because it’s not cooked out, it comes naturally, the way God intended us to have it… What ever the cows eat, like alfalfa, clover, marygolds, herbs, yes, even grass, has valuable vitamins minerals and enzymes, we get these nutrients through their milk naturally. Visit a couple of farms, look at the cows, ask questions, I can guarantee you will start feeling better and healthier drinking REAL milk.
Today’s milk is accused of causing everything from allergies to heart disease to cancer, but when generations ago Americans could buy Real Raw Milk, these diseases were rare. In fact, a supply of high quality dairy products was considered vital to American security and the economic well being of the nation.
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this is exactly the post I needed to see!
Wonderful article. I been looking for one on a similar note. I guess you always have something up your sleeve.
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Hmmm. Just read that vegn’s have poor bone health! Maybe they should rethink dairy? Also do they realize breastfeeding contains “milk”
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