To switch to Raw milk?

Spectacularly bad idea. Dd and her partner went to a cow cuddling experience. As bat shit crazy as it sounds.

Farmer offered a taste of raw milk. Dd took a sip and got away with it. Her partner didn’t want to offend the farmer and drank the whole lot. He was very ill. Diarrhoea

Don’t do it

Cow's milk: the verdict

Cow's milk can be an useful source of calcium, protein, vitamins and minerals, and concerns about it being full of hormones and antibiotics here in the UK are unfounded.
The use of hormones to increase milk yields is illegal in the UK and EU, and antibiotics are only allowed to be given to cows to treat disease.
Milk is tested for traces of antibiotics before it reaches us to ensure it's safe for consumption.
If you're considering plant-based alternatives, look for options that are fortified, and make sure you check the sugar levels. See our full guide to plant-based milks for more.

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Absolutely batshit. Pasteurisation does not equal ultra processed

Enjoy your bird flu, and thanks for putting everyone else at risk for cattle-human spread.

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/12/stanford-study-reveals-flu-virus-remains-infectious-in-refrigerated-raw-milk

Perhaps you could explain why you think this is a good idea? Then we can either agree with you're reasoning or save you from making a mistake

I've heard that boiling my kettle is ultra processing my food , therefore I've decided that instead I'll take my water from a local river with a sewer works upstream and drink that instead. I'm sure there are health benefits from this natural product. What does anyone think?

Actually the best thing you could do is switch to organic milk, Raw milk isn't necessary organic and its the hormones and antibiotics they feed the cows you don't want in your milk. The other thing that makes the milk taste different is the fact that most supermarket milk is homogenised, this breaks up the fat molecules and means it doesn't separate out unlike non-homogenised milk. It really effects the taste 😔.

Trust me raw milk on its own doesn't make a difference in taste. We always got our milk from a local farm when I was a kid, I remember him having to install pasteurisation equipment. It really didn't chance the taste of the milk, its just the homogenisation that does this.

I have used it, and it does taste so much better than pasturised, but there is a risk from contamination in the best regulated farms. You can get salmonella, e-coli etc. It's a risk. I use it in cooking, and I use it for myself in hot drinks, but mostly because I'm supporting a calf at foot dairy. I wouldn't give it to children unless it was boiled.

This is what happens when history is forgotten

Absolutely not.

This illustrates the problem with ' a little bit of knowledge'. Pasteurisation makes milk much, much safer to drink and is a good thing. It's not an 'ultra-processing method.' So many people get any sort of food processing (often done for safety reasons) confused with UFP (done to make the food more palatable/addictive/easier to get through the machines and produce on a large, industrialised scale) It doesn't matter whether you 'know' the farmer, or the cows(!), on a statistical and population level, raw milk is nor a good idea.

Tbf you are right to be concerned about drinking cows milk,its full of mad hormones and antibiotics,but the pasteurisation is the at least the sensible bit.id have to say that I've felt so much better since giving it up so maybe try non dairy alternatives for abit instead of trying raw milk and see if that's better for you too.

Muppets do truly walk among us.

I grew up drinking unpasturised milk - but I also grew up playing regularly (ie, most days - touching cattle bedding and cows) on a variety of dairy farms, so my immune system was used to it.

I haven't drunk it for 35 years, I would not drink it now, and funnily enough it is only some of my dairy farmer friends who live on farms and work with dairy cattle who would. None of my other farming friends will touch it, as they don't think they have the immune system for it.

It is a silly fad and it's one of those things thats fine... until it isn't. When it's not fine you will really regret your choices.

Don’t do it, for all the reasons above.

Go for it, it's your digestive system.

Udders too close to the bumhole of a cow for my liking, personally.

Interesting thankyou. A school friend used to bring in milk fresh from her family's dairy herd but she rarely shared so maybe I escaped lightly!

No scientific evidence of any health benefits, as yet. However there is definitely a small chance it can kill you. Up to you, I wouldn't.

No way
cows are covered in shit and flies

Yes. He quoted studies of serious harmful bacteria found in samples of raw milk. I don’t remember the details, but I remember being shocked at quite how high it was. I’m very into health and nutrition but what he said was definitely enough to put me off raw milk!

What exactly are the health benefits?

There's one a mile from us, over my dead body would I drink it ...

I buy organic pasteurised milk.
No antibiotics given to cow but it's safe.
I get why you're thinking about it op, lots of ultra processing, healthy eating type people promote it but personally it's not worth the risk.

Watching in horror and fascination as an Insta figure turned tradwife is guzzling raw milk as a pregnancy craving 😳

Just buy organic

Presumably because it gives you shits that would go through the eye of a needle

Out of interest, did he say why not?