There are those who believe that
the only milk a human will ever need comes from breast feeding as an infant.
Weaning is nature’s way of saying we do not need mother’s milk anymore. All
mammals wean their young. It’s as natural as the sunrise. From that point
forward, calcium and other essential nutrients can be obtained by eating green
leafy vegetables and other whole foods. As one who supports and promotes Natural
Law, you may conclude that I am in this camp of thinking. After all, each mammal’s
milk is specifically designed to rear its unique offspring into adulthood. Cow’s milk
is designed and perfected by nature to help baby calves grow into big cows.
Feline milk is engineered to turn little kittens into big cats. However,
in as much as that all makes perfect sense, I also have faith in man’s intuition
and instinct; man has been consuming raw milk products from animals for
thousands of years. Whether milk comes from cows, water buffalo, sheep, camels,
yak, goats, or even reindeer, unheated, unprocessed, raw milk has been a safe,
reliable food source for eons.
However, there are many health issues
with milk today: Lactose intolerance, dairy sensitivities, allergies, mucus
production, etc. So why didn’t we ever hear of these complaints while we sat on
grandpa’s lap and listened to his stories about the Good Ole Days? The difference
between our ancestor’s milk and the milk we have today is pasteurization. Grandpa’s
milk was not. Our milk is. It’s not the dairy that is unhealthy; it’s the
pasteurization that renders it so. The pasteurization process heats the milk to
kill bacteria. (Though this is a simplified explanation, I would urge you to
invest some time and research the history of and the need for pasteurization.) This
heating process changes the entire chemical makeup of the milk. The proteins
congeal, vitamins are cooked off, and the enzymes are destroyed, (Lactase, the
enzyme that breaks down lactose, is abundant in raw milk and absent/killed off
in pasteurized milk = lactose intolerance).
Can raw milk make you sick? Can you be struck by lightning or bitten
by a shark? All food can be mishandled and raise its potential to create sickness. The eggs,
spinach, cantaloupes, lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries, peanut butter, beef, and
poultry that have caused sickness over the last few years were all from
industrial farms monitored by the FDA. Deli meats are 10x more likely to cause
illness than raw milk. Pasteurized milk comes with no guarantee of “purity” (www.realmilk.com/safety/reported-outbreaks-of-foodborne-illness).
Clean, healthy, grass fed cows
produce clean healthy milk. It is the cows that are crammed into industrial
farms, force fed GMO corn (unnatural diet), shot full of antibiotics and
hormones that produce sick milk that demands pasteurization.
So I say, “Drink up!” Enjoy the long list of natural and healthy nutritional
complexes:, Vitamin A, all of the Bs, C,
D, E, K, iron, iodine, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sodium, selenium, copper, probiotics, zinc, protein, immunoglobulins,
essential fats, and some 60+ live enzymes. Mooooooooooo!
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