We may have all heard it from a friend’s complain of a modern day lactose intolerance. Well, instead of acknowledging their issue, stop for a moment and question; I find we do not have an understanding of this precious white gold. 

According to  Ayurveda raw milk and dairy products are building and nurturing in nature. Our government officials and “others” claiming that raw milk is unsafe to drink because of harmful pathogens. 

Well, it is incredibly simple, if for the last 5000 years we had no issues drinking raw milk, why would we have harmful pathogens in them now?

Laws banning the sale of unpasteurised milk as a drink — due to concerns about potential health risks — it was introduced in Australia in the 1980s. 

Do we understand homogenized and unhomogenised milk? Certainly we don’t. 

Like pasteurisation - which kills 99.999% of dangerous bacteria, or ultra-pasteurization - which also kills “vital vitamins and enzymes such as galactone (aids in the absorption of calcium) and lipase (causes milk fat to self destruct after the body absorbs its fat-soluble nutrients),” homogenization does not kill anything. Except us. Though it is a slow kill.

Homogenisation breaks up the creamy fat that floats to the top of glass bottles of unhomogenised milk. Then it disperses it into teeny-weeny little pinpoints of creamy fat that are so small they no longer float but remain in suspension with the rest of the milk. The trouble is that those little pinpoints of creamy fat are now tiny enough to get absorbed by the villi in our small intestines. And once absorbed into the villi, they make their way into our arteries leading to all sorts of cardiovascular difficulties. 

So why did the milk people commit this abominable crime so detrimental to our health and theirs as well? They conducted a few consumer surveys asking the test subjects what they thought of milk with cream floating at the top and got all sorts of negative answers, and they just wanted to increase the sales!

“Oooh! What gooey crud is this?” “Looks terrible! Get rid of it or I won’t buy any more milk.” “I can’t shake it enough to mix it real good. Tastes creepy this way.” “Wish something could be done about this yucky, floating cream.” “I’m tired of shaking the bottle to mix the cream with the rest of the milk.”

And the “milk industry” listened to the voice of the people. People who are now dead, as the surveys were done back in the 1950’s.  And even though statistics show fewer deaths from cardiovascular diseases prior to the 1950’s, modern day researchers still scratch their heads while drinking homogenized milk and ask, “Why can’t we figure out what’s causing all this cardiovascular ill health?”

But even though an increasing number of Australians want their dairy straight from the cow...it remains a dream...

Authorities in Queensland, NSW and Victoria have issued warnings to "rogue raw milk" traders. In Australia our biggest raw milk farmer sells up to 3000 liters a week in Melbourne and another 1000 liters in Sydney and it ships 1000 liters a day across Australia.

If you care a bit, you want to keep your right to choose what you eat and fight the mounting government actions (including armed raids on raw milk farmers) meant to disrupt the marketplace and shut down the distribution of raw milk. 

Remember to read labels carefully. Unhomogenised milk can still be pasteurized. If it is not pasteurized, it is called “raw milk.” And that will be another choice you will have to make. Is your health and the health of your family worth the time, the trouble, and the expense? I believe it is.- by AQ1

29 Jan 2012

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