Raw Milk
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Topic: Raw Milk
Posted By: Krazy40
Subject: Raw Milk
Date Posted: 6/21/12 at 12:20pm
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I have a friend that has been bugging me about raw milk, and wants me to give it a try. I was wondering if anybody has had any experience with drinking raw milk from grass fed cows. I’ve done some brief research and its has spiked my interest. Pro: there seems to be a lot of health reasons to switch to raw milk. No I don’t have anything to prove this, just limited web browsing research. This seems to mainly fall on how the cows are taken car of. Cons: Availability: In my area, the milk can't be sold to the public, you have to buy into the herd. Price: $6+ a gallon. Major problem for as much milk I like to drink. Time: only stays good 7-10 days. Not a problem if purchased 1-2 gallons at a time. ------------- Jeremy Gillingham "Go Big or Go Home" Sponsors: http://www.stoutbarbell.com/Home_Page.html http://www.backinact.com/newpatients.htm |
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Posted By: dkressly
Date Posted: 6/21/12 at 12:59pm
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I grew up on a dairy/cattle farm, dipped milk out straight from the tank. Personally I love raw milk, tastes is better, and though I have no proof (other than the amount of stout, healthy farm kids I grew up with) its much healthier. In fact after leaving the farm it took me forever to get used to drinking the water like flavorless stuff you buy in the store. ------------- I LOVE THE SMELL OF TACKY IN THE MORNING! |
Posted By: Krazy40
Date Posted: 6/21/12 at 1:04pm
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I was raised on city water, but well water doesn't bother me at all. ------------- Jeremy Gillingham "Go Big or Go Home" Sponsors: http://www.stoutbarbell.com/Home_Page.html http://www.backinact.com/newpatients.htm |
Posted By: dl_buffy
Date Posted: 6/24/12 at 7:06pm
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I've been supplementing my milk intake with grass fed dairy. It is way pricey, so if you have an in on some raw milk I would love to try (since the stuff over at Nature's Pantry is more like $8/gal.) What has me doing it is this stuff is avoiding all the rBHG (?)(growth hormones) and the fact that grass feed dairy and beef have a lot more CLA's in them than farmed stuff. CLA is better for your weight maintenance and for your hormone levels. One of the benefits has been that the whole milk has actual for real creme on top. At least an inch of the stuff that is GREAT in my coffee. Is the raw from an organic farm? ------------- --------- I have very few social interaction skills, so I just throw stuff instead. |
Posted By: dkressly
Date Posted: 6/24/12 at 9:52pm
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all the beef we eat is local grass fed cattle, better for you (imo anyway) and you CAN'T beat the quality! Wish I could find an in on raw milk, trouble is small dairies are all but non-existant around here these days. ------------- I LOVE THE SMELL OF TACKY IN THE MORNING! |
Posted By: Montana
Date Posted: 6/25/12 at 12:01am
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We just got some raw milk from the organic dairy down the road from us. Tastes great! We have two kids under 3 and we go through 4 gallons a week. We just made a deal with them, my wife gives their daughter horse riding lessons, and we get 4 gallons of milk for a trade. That's a win for me! ------------- Throw Far! Throw Loud! |
Posted By: Tim P
Date Posted: 6/25/12 at 4:35pm
The Voluntarist/Libertarian/whole food/free market/self-sufficiency primitivist in me thinks there's so many good points in this paragraph that I can only say; Hell yes! ------------- "What's the matter boy? you got ants in your pants? No Ma'am...hot steel balls!" Jerry Clower |
Montana wrote:Posted By: Montana
Date Posted: 6/26/12 at 12:25am
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Thank you Tim! I am lucky where I live. It's nice to have food readily availble that is home grown or local. I'm not much into buying organic. Way over priced. Or only eating natural/non-processed foods. But, my father in law has 20 cows and he splits a steer with us every year. I raise chickens, and have fresh eggs daily. I shoot a couple of deer, antelope, and on good years an elk every year to keep the freezer stocked. Plus, we have a huge garden. Saves us a lot of money. I can make the buffalo jump off the nickel! We haven't purchased meat at the store in years. It feels good to make a dinner that everything came off your land. ------------- Throw Far! Throw Loud! |
Posted By: norkasd
Date Posted: 6/27/12 at 9:34pm
| I work at a milk plant. We seldomly see raw milk with high standard plate counts or bacteria problems. We don't accept milk from rBST herds. Most of the farmers I've talked to have said the use of rBST doesn't pay in the long run with all the increased health problems. As far as grass fed organic goes, as long as the patures are free of weeds and things like fruit trees, wild onion, ect., the milk should be free of an off-taste. Only problem with raw milk is the self life. |
Posted By: grasshopper
Date Posted: 6/27/12 at 10:33pm
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Grew up down the road from a dairy. Literally walked down the road with an empty jug, filled it up and went home. Brother and I drank a gallon a day. Awesome. My mom now milks 30 cows and is always trying to get me to drink it but my wife has me on skim and I dont think I could handle the thickness. Often wish I could go back to what it was like when I was growing up, eating freshly killed deer steaks, mashed potatoes dug up from the garden and raw milk. Those were the days. ------------- "Breathe deeply. Refuse to be weak. Refuse to be sick. Refuse to die. Think strong and you will be." -The Mighty Atom (Yoselle Greenstein) |
Posted By: dl_buffy
Date Posted: 6/28/12 at 11:47am
DUDE! Seriously? I'll take ur mom. (HAHA...that sounds bad...hmmm)
But for real, you take fresh milk and let is sit for a bit, then chill it. All the fat is at the top in one clump. You take that out, you practically have skim milk. Hell I'll drive by at start of each week and take the fresh cream from you.
GAH...I want fresh milk!!!  ------------- --------- I have very few social interaction skills, so I just throw stuff instead. |
Posted By: matt
Date Posted: 7/02/12 at 4:08am
 Who's got raw milk?
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Posted By: norkasd
Date Posted: 7/02/12 at 5:46am
| Must be a heifer calf? I have four cows and five calves on my place right now. We quit milking a few years ago when Grade B manufactoring milk was phased out and we didn't want to build a new parlor. Now we have beef cows, Charolais bulls with Simmental and Limousin cows. I only have five acres of grass here, my dad has cattle more cattle four miles from me. After the end of summer, the cows at my place go to town and the calves go to the feedlot. The old cows are between 10-12 years old and broken mouth. My cousin milks about 200 Holsteins a few miles from me. The milk plant I milk at buys milk from local herds and hauls some milk quite a ways. We get milk from dairies with 20,000 cows with four or five parlors milking 100 at a time. The business sure has changed through the years. We milked no more than 30 Guerneys and Jerseys in a stanchion barn with a Bou-Matic pipeline into a DEC 1000 gallon tank. Sorry for the life history of dairy farming I just posted. Just a thought...get some shirt with a caber tosser on it that says, "Got Highland Games?" Thanks posting the nice picture. Cows sure beat pigs!! |