>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
Dear Gil, I know what you mean, and I too am not familiar with people getting sick from raw milk, though I'm around people who drink raw milk all the time. I've heard of the undulunt fever thing a bit, and with older folks it comes up on radionic scans once in a while. So does small pox vaccination, which seems to settle in various areas of the body and cause problems ranging from arthritis to liver disease and brain problems. It's a good question whether or not society isn't far too fearful of germs and whether or not we aren't paying for this fear with problems we cause from vaccinations and disinfectants (like chlorine poisoning) and so forth. I'm not saying we should go back to the days of cholera from contaminated water and polio epidemics. (My father had polio.) But there is all this fear of germs and very little understanding about how to build and maintain a healthy immune system. It would be better the other way around, wouldn't it? And as for making the task of the farmer less rewarding, pasteurization was one of the big control mechanisms to lock him in to depending on and getting screwed by the middle men. Is there any doubt of this? Best, Hugh Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
