On your mark, get ready…
We spent a wonderful Christmas break in Michigan, visiting family and all the usual. Steve and I had a chance to really focus on our business plan. We’re completely excited about what lies ahead.
Everyone of course was curios about our endeavor and I had fun educating people about the benefits of raw milk. It was interesting talking to the Cheeto crowd about the healthiness of raw milk and have them all excited about trying to find some for themselves. My sister-in-law joked about my sending our milk to her UPS.
The fact of the matter is that it’s hard to disagree with thousands of years of raw milk drinking. Anyone can read about Weston A. Price’s research into traditional cultures around the world and their common food uses for good health. Raw food is found in some format in these cultures. While the Eskimos may enjoy raw whale blubber, and the Japanese yum yum over raw fish heads, I find our cultural practice of drinking raw milk to be more palatable. Fermented foods are also a common denominator among traditional cultures. My husband could get his fair share with sauerkraut, but I prefer fresh yogurt. This all has to do with enzymes and lactic acid helping the nutrients to become more available to your body.
What is really easy to explain to people about the benefits of raw versus pasteurized milk comes in an illustration that is no more difficult than a basic high school science experiment. When researchers wanted to study milk they took two groups of rats. The first group, Group A was fed raw milk. The second group, Group B, was fed pasteurized milk. Everything else was the same. They studied these groups over several generations. What they found was very straightforward. Group A (the raw group) experienced normal healthy lives, conceived and gave birth without complications, had off-spring with strong bones and straight teeth and jaws who were equally healthy as their parents. There was little difference from generation to generation. Group B however, was very different. While the first generation of Group B seemed fairly normal they gave birth to off-spring with crooked teeth and unsound jaws who had trouble conceiving and giving birth. The health of each generation deteriorated over time, showing all the “modern” diseases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. Any high schooler could figure out this correlation.
It’s too bad that our modern health care (oxymoron) has chosen the path of pharmaceuticals rather than just plain good science that points out the benefits of foods that traditional cultures have relied on. Ever since God created the goat and loved its milk so well that he created the cow and sheep, people have been reaping the benefits of this food.
This is the biggest reason why I want to become a Grade A certified raw goat milk dairy. I think it should be made available to anyone in the stores. I could just sell it under the table or be word of mouth but I want the public to see it there on the shelves and question their choices. I want the government to acknowledge by certifying me that they are open to raw milk and stop being blind to the truth.
Do I think they really will? I hope so, but I’m realistically skeptical. If not, then I will still move forward with my planned goat share. By offering people a share of a goat then they are technically drinking milk from their own goat- which is legal. They then pay me a fee for boarding and feeding “their” goat. This works out to be the same price as a quart of milk. This is how it is being done across the country as people will not be denied the food they want.
Everyone of course was curios about our endeavor and I had fun educating people about the benefits of raw milk. It was interesting talking to the Cheeto crowd about the healthiness of raw milk and have them all excited about trying to find some for themselves. My sister-in-law joked about my sending our milk to her UPS.
The fact of the matter is that it’s hard to disagree with thousands of years of raw milk drinking. Anyone can read about Weston A. Price’s research into traditional cultures around the world and their common food uses for good health. Raw food is found in some format in these cultures. While the Eskimos may enjoy raw whale blubber, and the Japanese yum yum over raw fish heads, I find our cultural practice of drinking raw milk to be more palatable. Fermented foods are also a common denominator among traditional cultures. My husband could get his fair share with sauerkraut, but I prefer fresh yogurt. This all has to do with enzymes and lactic acid helping the nutrients to become more available to your body.
What is really easy to explain to people about the benefits of raw versus pasteurized milk comes in an illustration that is no more difficult than a basic high school science experiment. When researchers wanted to study milk they took two groups of rats. The first group, Group A was fed raw milk. The second group, Group B, was fed pasteurized milk. Everything else was the same. They studied these groups over several generations. What they found was very straightforward. Group A (the raw group) experienced normal healthy lives, conceived and gave birth without complications, had off-spring with strong bones and straight teeth and jaws who were equally healthy as their parents. There was little difference from generation to generation. Group B however, was very different. While the first generation of Group B seemed fairly normal they gave birth to off-spring with crooked teeth and unsound jaws who had trouble conceiving and giving birth. The health of each generation deteriorated over time, showing all the “modern” diseases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. Any high schooler could figure out this correlation.
It’s too bad that our modern health care (oxymoron) has chosen the path of pharmaceuticals rather than just plain good science that points out the benefits of foods that traditional cultures have relied on. Ever since God created the goat and loved its milk so well that he created the cow and sheep, people have been reaping the benefits of this food.
This is the biggest reason why I want to become a Grade A certified raw goat milk dairy. I think it should be made available to anyone in the stores. I could just sell it under the table or be word of mouth but I want the public to see it there on the shelves and question their choices. I want the government to acknowledge by certifying me that they are open to raw milk and stop being blind to the truth.
Do I think they really will? I hope so, but I’m realistically skeptical. If not, then I will still move forward with my planned goat share. By offering people a share of a goat then they are technically drinking milk from their own goat- which is legal. They then pay me a fee for boarding and feeding “their” goat. This works out to be the same price as a quart of milk. This is how it is being done across the country as people will not be denied the food they want.
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