Feds raid Amish dairy and threaten action over raw milk sales

[cavanami]

...Raw milk drinkers and sellers began fighting back in early 2010, filing suit against the FDA and claiming that banning interstate sales is unconstitutional. The case is now pending while the crackdowns continue.

 

Raw (unpasteurized) milk contains enzymes and bacteria have been shown to strengthen your immune system, develop healthy bacteria in your intestines and reduce the risks of everything from respiratory disease to obesity. [color:red]Pasteurization destroys both good and bad bacteria.[/color]

 

The FDA officially banned interstate sales of raw milk in 1987, but it wasn't until 2006 that a crackdown began. Agricultural departments in several states, with the help of the FDA, started to stage raids of small dairies and buying clubs.

 

...One of the most memorable occurred in 2006, when all [color:red]spinach was pulled from store shelves. Alfalfa sprouts, tomatoes, beef and jalapeno peppers have also been recalled in recent years after serious illnesses have been reported.[/color]

 

[color:red]Yet, only one food -- raw milk -- has been unfairly singled out and targeted by the FDA[/color], the USDA and even the FBI as a "health risk" worthy of armed raids and crackdowns -- a food that also happens to be so low on the food-borne illness risk scale it's hardly measurable...

 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/14/the-war-over-raw-milk-heats-up.aspx

[kamui]

There was huge fight in France by a major industrial cheese maker against small cheese makers who produce raw milk cheese. Luckily the industrial cheese company lost. The fight was not about the health of the people, but about money:

 

Inside France's Cheese War

 

[shygye]

Link

 

An outbreak of bacterial illness in southern Michigan has been linked with raw milk from the same Middlebury, Indiana farm that operates a program in which non-farmers buy "shares" in a farm's cows and then purchase the milk.

 

A Michigan farm cooperative received milk from the Indiana dairy and delivered it Chicago, Des Plaines, Downers Grove and Elgin, the Illinois Department of Public Health said Thursday in a news release.

 

The culprit is Campylobacter bacteria. It can cause sickness including diarrhea, abdominal pain, headache and muscle pain. People with those symptoms who have had raw milk should seek testing and treatment from their doctors, Illinois public health officials said. They also should report the illness to their local health department.

 

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Another raw milk outbreak has sickened at least 24 people, including several children, in Colorado. Since June 10, 24 people who reported drinking raw milk from Billy Goat Dairy in Longmont have become ill with campylobacter and/or E. coli O157:H7. Two children have been hospitalized, one has been released.

 

Lab tests have confirmed the presence of campylobacter and E. coli 0157 in the victims. Both types of bacteria are found in the intestines of animals and can be passed in their feces to food, water, and milk products that haven’t been pasteurized.

 

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Two school-age children who drank raw milk from the Hartmann dairy farm have developed infections of E. coli O157:H7 in an outbreak that has grown to eight illnesses since May 26.

 

The Minnesota Department of Health's latest update on the Hartmann milk E. coli outbreak also said the third new case is an infant who lives in the same household as one of the first five cases.

 

[TheCorinthian]

Yep.

 

There is a reason why Louis Pasteur is though of as one of the greatest men in history of health and science.

[cavanami]

>"The issue has pitted public health officials against raw-milk advocates who say the health benefits of drinking unpasteurized milk outweigh the risks."

 

Do you see this...

 

"benefits of drinking unpasteurized milk outweigh the risks"

 

Drink your GMO, cloned cow milk, radiated milk, have a nice day, up to you!

[Old Hippie]

Yep.

 

There is a reason why Louis Pasteur is though of as one of the greatest men in history of health and science.

 

 

 

You have it all wrong! Scientist and doctors know jack shit! Only dirty dope smoking hippies who work at health food cooperatives in Berkeley know what is best for you!

[TheCorinthian]

>"The issue has pitted public health officials against raw-milk advocates who say the health benefits of drinking unpasteurized milk outweigh the risks."

 

Do you see this...

 

"benefits of drinking unpasteurized milk outweigh the risks"

 

Drink your GMO, cloned cow milk, radiated milk, have a nice day, up to you!

 

 

No but I would really like to review the science supporting it. Got a link?

[cavanami]

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/14/the-war-over-raw-milk-heats-up.aspx

 

Why is Raw Milk Being Targeted?

 

According to CDC data, from 1993 to 2006 there were only about 116 illnesses a year linked to raw milk -- that amounts to less than .000002 percent of the 76 million people who contract a food-borne illness in the United States each year!

 

This is the reality of the "dangerous" food the FDA has launched an attack against -- seizing raw dairy products from private food coops, arresting small raw dairy farmers and threatening distributors with fines and jail time. They've also devoted an entire section of their web site to extolling the "dangers of unpasteurized milk."

 

Meanwhile, ground beef sold in supermarkets across the United States, with the FDA's gold seal of approval, commonly contains meat from hundreds of animals, often from different parts of the world...

[rchapstick]

hardly a "scientific" site Cav

[unit731]

It's gotta be dem Dems. You know, those Obahma folks.

 

Fox News stated that this Amish fellow had an Palin poster on one of his corn fields.

 

Here is proof positive.

 

 

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