Raw Milk Benefits

Raw milk straight from the cow or goat is chock full of wonderful benefits of healthy bacteria, vitamins, enzymes and you will not get just from milk purchased at stores.

Milk you find on your supermarket is flawed for several reasons. One reason is the big commercial dairies do not feed their cows and grass hay that is what they are supposed to eat, but rather their cows exist in small feedlots fed large quantities of grain which is in fact, not something you hear a cow to eat.

Consequently, these cows must be fed antibiotics which in turn are going into your milk. Bleach is often added to make sure your box is white as milk can be. Scary, is not it?

But even if it was not, available on the market for milk is pasteurized (heated) and homogenized (a process that breaks down fat), and you can be sure that all the beneficial enzymes and healthy bacteria have long since disappeared when it reaches the grocery shelf. What you have left is simply dead fluid and eventually cause more harm than good due to growth hormone and antibiotics (among others) gave the cow commercial dairy unhealthy.

Many people say that drinking milk straight from the cow is not healthy, and that pasteurization is necessary to kill things as E. coli. The fact is that the milk collected tissue from a healthy cow fed on grass in a small family farm is very healthy, and the benefits outweigh the risks. You would be statistically much more likely to contract E. coli from your local produce department than that of the cow farmer.

The source of most of our commercial milk is the cow Holstein dairy modern was bred especially for the quantities to produce large quantities of milk than the cow that was never intended to produce. Since she is fed so much grain (remember this is unhealthy for a cow), it requires antibiotics to keep his health. Growth hormones also be found in the milk you pour over your cereal breakfast every morning.

The more healthy and tasty raw milk will come from the "old" breeds of dairy cows as New Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire, Brown Swiss or older or lines of Holstein have been bred to produce obscene amounts milk. The average fat content of these old breeds of cows at the turn of the century was 4%. fat today is normally composed of less than 3%. There is also the misleading notion that skimmed and low fat milk is good for you. Whole milk is awesomely healthy fat that contains vitamins A and D necessary for calcium absorption, and is also rich in short and medium chain fatty acids that protect us against disease. You get no health benefit at all to drink low fat milk or fat-free, and you might as well have a glass of water instead. Who would actually be much healthier.

Lots of jumping on the train from raw milk, and many others to board in the coming years as people learn about what goes into our food through business processes.

If you have a small dairy farm near you, come and enjoy real milk and see what you've been missing.