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    There's a farm around here where you can buy unpasteurized milk. Well, that's illegal, so you have to buy a share of the farm, and then you can get the milk, because you can only drink unpasteurized milk from cows you own.

    Anyway, legalities aside, it's pretty popular among friends of mine. They say that pasteurizing milk makes it less nutritious, and they pay around $7 a gallon for it, and that's after buying the share of the farm (which I think is $50 a year?). And that pasteurizing isn't necessary as far as illness goes if it's a small farm with pastured cows who eat only grass because it's not hard to keep things sanitary in those conditions.

    What do people here think about unpasteurized milk? Does anyone drink it? The way my friends talk about it makes me curious to try it.
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    My family drank it when I was young, because we'd get it from family friends who were dairy farmers. We'd just fill jugs out of the tank. But I was only 7, so I don't remember that much about it.

    They definitely have to keep things very clean. Some of the diseases you can possibly contract are pretty nasty. I was going to ask my dad about that sometime.. how common it was back in the day for people to get diseases like that. He's actually old enough to remember.
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    I'm just happy that I have milk that I can drink, I don't really care about the fine print. Life could be much worse.
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    From what I've heard, unpasteurized milk tends to contain more benefits since you're consuming all of the vitamin and mineral content, sort of like raw vegetables do before they're cooked.
    Though the potential hazards of pasteurizing seems to be more of a concern (and understandably so) since it can contain all sorts of diseases and other harmful bacterial content.

    But I do still think people should have the right to drink, and sell, unpasteurized milk, as long as it's openly labeled as such and sold privately to limit contamination of other products.
    Though, I personally have no desire to consume it myself for the same reason I won't eat steak tar-tar or raw oysters
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    Someone told me today that you Americans have cows that are given substances which are illegal in Europe in order to increase cows milk supply. Apparently the milk tastes pure boufin, and you guys use in your squirt on cheese and stuff (which sounds rank rotten on it's own).

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    1) I don't care about the fact its illegal, its one of those ridiculous things, they are going to arrest you to help 'protect' from diseases, even though you know the risks and want to take them.... just seems retarded. If people want to buy rat poison and eat it they can, but non-pasteurized milk is all of a sudden a big deal. So yea, I don't care, then again I don't feel passionately enough about the issue to consider worthy of overturning or putting up any resistance.... I guess all I am saying here is if you illegally obtain some of this stuff, I'll keep it on the down low you know so you don't get busted for having unpasturized milk

    2) Don't catch a disease if you drink it

    3) I am not interested in it myself, I'd rather have that little less grade in quality for the assurance that its virtually disease free.

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    given substances which are illegal in Europe in order to increase cows milk supply.
    Yup. Though you can buy milk from farmer's who don't use it. It's labeled differently.

    There are lots of things over here that illegal in Europe. A lot of the chemicals in cosmetics, for instance.
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    Yeah well that's another benefit of this milk. The cows are pasture raised instead of raised on corn in a factory farm setting, and not shot up full of hormones and drugs. I could pastureize it myself in a big pot but I don't know if it's worth the trouble. I saw the farm and it looks pretty darn clean. The farmer said you're more likely to get sick off lunch meat.
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    I hope it tastes like regular milk.
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    We can sell unpasteurised milk over here. It just has to be labeled as "not fit for human consumption" or some such. Stupid technicalities. :-p

    I tried some ultra fresh goat milk a couple weeks ago (5 minutes old).. but the warmth of it kept making me think of warm, pink udders and it was all too much. :-p Made me feel rather shallow! But I knew this goat personally too - this big brown goat, and knew that she'd been walking around bloated with too much milk because her kids had been eaten by eagles. :-/ How do you enjoy milk attached to such a dramatic context? :-p Interestingly, my SLI brother felt the same as me. My LSI mother just pronounced it delicious milk. haha
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mariella View Post
    The farmer said you're more likely to get sick off lunch meat.
    which is EXTREMELY unlikely. I read that most lunchmeat is washed so clean that it lasts far longer than the date they stamp on it but that they can't extend that date because it wouldn't be believable (I'm referring to packaged lunch meat that's unopened).

    I do drink organic milk from cows that aren't given hormones, etc. and it costs about $6/gallon. But it's pasteurized.

    Oh, and I'll add that my 10-year-old daughter can totally tell the difference (as can I) between the taste of "regular" non-organic milk that they offer at school, and the organic milk we drink here at home.
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    Quote Originally Posted by redbaron View Post
    which is EXTREMELY unlikely. I read that most lunchmeat is washed so clean that it lasts far longer than the date they stamp on it but that they can't extend that date because it wouldn't be believable (I'm referring to packaged lunch meat that's unopened).

    I do drink organic milk from cows that aren't given hormones, etc. and it costs about $6/gallon. But it's pasteurized.

    Oh, and I'll add that my 10-year-old daughter can totally tell the difference (as can I) between the taste of "regular" non-organic milk that they offer at school, and the organic milk we drink here at home.
    i can tell the difference, too. it's /really/ markedly different.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dolphin View Post
    They ARE horribly overpriced I don't seek out eggs that much cuz I have a mild allergy to the yolk but when I do buy em it's like..a dozen for a dollar fifty or six organic ones for six dollars..? lol. I don't know, maybe it's unrealistic but I wish companies would use their dollars to benefit the health of the consumers, the animals under their care, and the health of the planet in lieu of the future instead of funding so much flipping advertising..surely the prices on ethically produced food would come down some once it wasn't such a RARE thing..
    Also, at least one study has shown that people who spend money on organic food see themselves as doing something ethical and end up being morally lax in other areas of their lives. Do a search sometime on compensatory morality.

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    We had a cow growing up and loved the milk.

    I can't even drink the shit from the grocery.
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