Pasteurization kills the probiotics, leaves the mold. When legally mandating pasteurization, they only compared the rate of the specific illness caused by raw milk, and did not divulge the illnesses caused by pasteurized milk, which in fact are more common AND more severe. Pasteurization is just another scam.
I grew up on a farm, back before it was illegal to drink raw milk. (Yes, I am that old!)
When I was about 6, some farm in the county we lived in had a cow or two test positive for something they called “Bangs”. My dad got a home pasteurizer to pasteurize the great milk from our clean cows. I used to help at milking time.
I stopped drinking milk, because the pasteurized milk tasted so terrible, no longer slightly sweet and refreshing, but kind of like burned rubber. I do not drink pasteurized milk today, and try to avoid commercial cheeses, except for sheep’s milk and goat milk cheeses, preferably raw!
Of course… that’s just me, and to each his own. I think sanitation, testing, and grass feeding is the way to go with our pasture animals, don’t feed them grains, and they won’t get sick!
Pasteurization kills the probiotics, leaves the mold. When legally mandating pasteurization, they only compared the rate of the specific illness caused by raw milk, and did not divulge the illnesses caused by pasteurized milk, which in fact are more common AND more severe. Pasteurization is just another scam.
I grew up on a farm, back before it was illegal to drink raw milk. (Yes, I am that old!)
When I was about 6, some farm in the county we lived in had a cow or two test positive for something they called “Bangs”. My dad got a home pasteurizer to pasteurize the great milk from our clean cows. I used to help at milking time.
I stopped drinking milk, because the pasteurized milk tasted so terrible, no longer slightly sweet and refreshing, but kind of like burned rubber. I do not drink pasteurized milk today, and try to avoid commercial cheeses, except for sheep’s milk and goat milk cheeses, preferably raw!
Of course… that’s just me, and to each his own. I think sanitation, testing, and grass feeding is the way to go with our pasture animals, don’t feed them grains, and they won’t get sick!