Saturday, January 14, 2012

Raw milk: passion or confusion?

We are what we eat; however, something as simple as splashing milk over morning cereal requires navigation through an array of choices — fat and lactose content, probiotics, vitamins A and D, homogenization and pasteurization. Claims that pasteurization decreases the nutritional and health value of milk are promoted by a small, but passionate segment of our society.
From 2000-2008, 50 disease outbreaks in the U.S. were attributed to the consumption of raw milk. In Michigan, outbreaks of food-borne illnesses attributable to raw milk consumption occurred in 2010 and 2011.
The milk is contaminated by adding detergent, fat, soda and urea besides its age-old dilution with water. "It is not a complicated process. Urea is................
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