Re: Raw Milk - Submission to Health Canada

[Gil Robertson]

Dear Hugh and Zoran,
I think the issue of pasteurisation is more a matter of control and 
taxation than public health. Raw milk is produced by the individual 
farmer and used to be sold to friends and neighbours, but compulsion o 
pasteurise obliges the sale to either a co-op or a commercial processor, 
who then must have a stable market, which usually discount sales to 
super markets and the like, or processing. My dairy farming forebears 
sold around the local village, doing home deliveries in the pre dawn, 
having already milked the fifty to eighty cows. Excess was made into 
butter, cheese or fed to vealers or pigs. When pasteurisation came in, 
the milk price fell to a "wholesale" level, the locals lost the free 
home delivery and the farmer lost the income from the cheese, butter, 
veal and bacon.....

Personally, I have never heard of anyone getting ill from using raw milk.

Gil