To switch to Raw milk?

[eggybreadyy]

What are your thoughts on Raw milk?

With the current hot topic of ultra-processed food, and trying to reduce this. Mainly for healthy reasons. I am considering switching to raw milk.
Upon googling lots of advice why not to do this, especially for children.
I have seen that it can have lots of health benefits if sourced from a reputable raw milk farmer.

What are the supposed health benefits?

What are the health benefits? Whether the cattle are well cared for or not makes no difference in whether they have TB.

I'm from a farming family and drank it my whole life up until we stopped having a dairy herd as it wasn't worth the hassle.

I wouldn't drink it knowing what I know now.

It’s illegal to sell in Scotland because so many people died.

If your intent is to be a prime candidate for a Darwin Award, alongside notable luminaries such as Florida Man and the guy that decided delivering a case of beer to bears whilst naked at the zoo was a good idea, then sure.

Processing is not the same as ultra processing.

If I chop and cook a chicken breast I have processed it to make it safe, in the same way that milk is heated to pasturise it. My great grandmother would recognise those processes.

That is not the same as whatever has to go on to make cheesy wotsits, none of us are doing that in the kitchen.

(cont)

…but you will have competition.

The best advice I have seen regarding this is go to a field of dairy cows and look at them. They don't get washed before milking... pasteurisation is an extremely good idea.

You may want to look for unhomegenised milk which is slightly less processed but still pasteurised.

Why not go the whole hog and only eat completely “unprocessed” food.

no cooking, no boiling water, no preparation of any sort.

is harvesting plants processing?

I would never do that. The risk of food poisoning is too high. Milk is pasteurised for a reason

The udders are washed.

Raw milk (at great expense) is only for those people who have never been on a dairy farm*. If you have, you immediately understand the problem. Cow shit is sloppy, and it gets everywhere. Unless you want a cow shit-shake, stick to pasturised please.

*Except for the farmers themselves who quite often drink it. If I were you I would a) bare in mind that farmers are exposed to those germs all day every day and must have some decent natural immunity, and b) don't take advice on how to maintain your health from farmers. No really.

Milk is regularly tested by a professional milk tester

It’s weird enough that we drink milk meant for other animals (I do drink milk, but it is objectively weird that we do), to do it straight from the teet (or udder) seems even more bizarre to me.

I’ve never researched it, but there are many obvious reasons why I would want to boil or treat the milk before I drank it, but I don’t know, and can’t think of, of any obvious health benefits of NOT treating it.

Why would you drink raw milk? I’d cut out dairy before I cut out pasteurisation…

But I do filter my tap water, which is literally meant for human consumption - so maybe I’m the wrong audience here.

I've not had raw milk for years but I have had raw cheese from the Isle of Mull. (Friends of the family own the farm).

I don't usually consume milk, as I have an intolerance. I experimented with RAW MILK and found the digestion side didn't change, but I felt much better in my head (menopausal) so I think there are benefits.

The milk processing is necessary as it comes from all over, and is mixed.

The RAW I buy 2l once a month is single source, filtered & refrigerated on site.

Neutral opinion tbh.

Raw milk is delicious . There 's a farm near (ish) me that's all set up with vending machines for milk, milkshakes, butter, cheese and ice-cream. Just wish it was closer 🐄

No.

Survival of the fittest as they say...

It’s not difficult to pasteurise the milk yourself. That’s how I was brought up when my mother’s milk dried up. A mate gave her milk from her house cow and DM pasteurised it and served it to me.

Cow shit splatters. Udders are low.

We bought raw milk in the 80s and boiled it ourselves. It’s tedious.

Cows are just minging. So is their milk IMO but if I do consume it, I want it pasteurised thanks.

I did not know that!
Thankfully I've never contemplated drinking unpasteurised milk!

If you're going to change then just go organic.

What do you think pasteurisation is?
It’s not adding or taking anything away, it’s heating it. That’s it.

If you’re happy drinking trace particle fecal matter and other nasties then rock on.

Pasteurised milk isn’t ultra processed though.