Vitamin E (Coli)
Hot on the heels of the E. coli outbreak in spinach comes another food-supply warning, this time targeting raw-milk purveyor Organic Pastures. So far, four California children, all of whom drank the company’s raw-milk products, have been infected with E. coli.
While most Americans take the pasteurization of their milk for granted, a small but growing population—often inspired by the teachings of whole-foods advocate Weston Price—has been bucking food-safety laws in many states, forming “dairy undergrounds” to get access to sources of organic, unprocessed milk from pasture-raised cows.
Although raw milk is more vulnerable to contamination, its proponents claim far-reaching health benefits, while asserting that the extra-scrupulous care that must be taken to make raw milk safe promotes healthier cows and more-sustainable dairying practices. The FDA, however, holds firm against raw milk. Your thoughts?
Posted by
| Monday, September 25, 2006 at 8:48am
| 7 comments
Tagged with: milk, raw, raw milk, unpasteurized, organic pastures, dairy
« Previous Post: Holy Grail with Curly Tail | Next Post: To Seat, or Not to Seat »
Archives
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
In the Chowhound Boards
Raw milk IS potentially dangerous, but it is soooooo good.
I know milk "does a body good," but should human children really be drinking cow colostrum, as the story notes they did?
my kids were brought up on raw milk and raw milk products 30 years age. They had no alleregies and were never ill until they started regular american diets.
This report is very unfair. There was only one child confirmed that drank the Organic Pastures milk. The whole family (and many other people) had consumed the milk, and only the one child became ill. The child had consumed many other raw foods-including raw veggies, california rolls, and undercooked hamburger, that the rest of the family had not. If the milk had been the cause, the rest of the family would have become ill.
Absolutely no ecoli has been found in Organic Pastures milk. The milk has been tested on the farm, and even from the same bottle that the child consumed. The E-Coli did not come from the milk. All of the milk from Organic Pastures has tested as 100% negative for e-coli.
Organic Pastures is being unfairly named in this e-coli scare, which is actually caused by manure from factory farmed cows. I will continue to drink raw milk from well cared for, grass fed cows, and reap the nutritional benefits, no matter how often the FDA tells me to stop drinking raw milk and to take drugs instead.
At three years old my son had asthma. I took him to the doctor, who prescribed four drugs, including steroids. I decided to look for alternatives before loading him up with drugs, and found raw milk. He never had asthma again, and is eleven years old and drug free.
Know your farmers-and the milk that humans have consumed for years safely before factory farming and pasteurization...and go drink!
Kristin Canty
KRISTEN, YOU DO NOT HAVE YOUR STORY STRAIGHT SO I SUGGEST YOU THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE. YOU HAVE FALSE, MISLEADING INFORMATION AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. YOU SHOULD READ ABOUT E-COLI BEFORE YOU COMMENT. YOU SOUND LIKE A MORON!!
Kristen,
The report was very UNFAIR, No I don't think so, I think it was vey UNFAIR that 5 children got sick from that milk. Two of them were fighting for their life. (That's Unfair). I do not know where you got your story from but it is a LIE! and I can not believe that you and all of the people who defended that Dairy (including the owner of the dairy) showed not one iota of concern for those children. What kind of people are You?
OK - for the record, it is up to YOU to investigate the dairy - people stop BLAMING everyone else for your lack of investigation. ASK any dairy farmer (whether they pasteurize their milk or NOT) what THEY drink? ALL will tell you the same thing - they drink RAW milk - this has gone on for centuries (read Ron Schmids the Story of Milk if you would like a good, thorough education on this)
Now, any LICENSED raw milk dairy has done specific testing including Brucellosis, TB, somatic cell count, etc. and if the animals are PASTURE fed, not FACTORY farmed, there is no safer milk you can give your children - it's actually more harmful to give the watered down - nutritionally deprived pasteurized junk available in the grocery store. The article above has no PROOF or evidence that the E Coli came from the milk at all - you need to realize that E Coli comes from the intestines of mammals, and it can cause contamination from something as simple as someone NOT WASHING their hands -- so how is it that the milk is to blame here, when there were plenty of OTHER opportunities (veggies, dirty surfaces, dirty hands, dirt within your own HOME) to have E Coli enter the mouth. E Coli, in and of itself -- should not harm someone who has a HEALTHY immune system. Supporting local dairies, KNOWING your producers, is part of doing your homework yourself. I trust the conventional food chain more than the industrialized version, because we here have cured many problems from raw food alone. It is education that will help in this case, not lambasting one another when we don't have our facts straight. I myself, have a licensed raw milk dairy - and our customers are educated* people, Europeans and people who CARE about their children, the environment and saving what is left of the small producers who are doing things the RIGHT way. They are the healthiest group of people you would ever meet, that don't rely on the medical system because they don't need it. Small farmers who go "by the book" should be rewarded for their hard work not attacked by mindless fools who fail to educate themselves properly.