I've been rather passively active amongst you here-- so glad for all the information I've been learning. And now, I'm slowly going to be starting to participate more here.
This particular issue, while not directly homeopathic, is something I have fairly strong convictions about.
I've voted on this in favor of raw milk-- thank you for sharing the link, Roger.
I'm in the same boat as Maria. We are on our own farm, and, among our animals, we have dairy goats. The good, fresh, unadulterated (aka "raw") milk is all we've been drinking for years now, and we are quite healthy. I make cheeses and yogurt-- and even soaps with it. But Maria's right. While I, too, encourage people to check out the private dairies from which they'd like to purchase fresh milk to ensure cleanliness and proper care of the milk, we cannot openly market our milk. All the "red tape" and associated costs/fees we need to go through and spend in order to sell our milk and dairy products in their pure state is very prohibitive and, are in my opinion, designed to keep the big farms in business.
Yes, you do need to heat milk up to make cheeses and yogurts-- and even soaps, by the way. Never very high, except with certain cheeses (ricotta being one). And especially goat milk is kept at a very low temp. Never more than 90F for cheeses. And I like to keep my soap temps below 80F.
I suppose this actually can tie in with homeopathy too-- nature's medicine. I believe what we've got today, with milk, is much like the vaccine issue. Milk in its natural state has always been good for mankind. But then this technique called pasteurization came into play-- and they worked to sell this by tying it in with the fact that it destroys bacteria, which have got to be bad, of course. (So they've been telling us. . . . .) We here know better than this, of course. But look at the hold this has on society. And, concurrently with that, look at the real "need" there is today for pasteurization when milk comes from the huge, filthy dairies that use the horrid growth hormone with their cows (some of those poor cows, in places, are producing 22 gallons of milk a day-- absolutely unreal), fed the horrible GMO grains, and more horrendous activities. But yet there is so much money involved with them that they are persecuting the dairy farmers that want to simply provide good, fresh, whole milk to people who are educated enough to know they truly want it.
Maybe it's a stretch, but I do liken fresh whole milk in with whole medicine and wellness. I love our goats and the milk we get from them. This is a definite something that contributes to the health of our family.
In health!
- Cathy Lemmon
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