Got milk?

I’ve been drinking milk all my life but never delved into what really goes into the process of store bought milk. If you are in most countries they don’t go through the whole food safety process that milks go through such as pasteurization and homogenized milk. They drink raw milk. I drank cow and goat milk before which didn’t go through any extra processes. The taste is different and according to experts, it contains better nutritional properties because you are not messing with its natural process. There is no injecting the cow with hormones, antibiotics, or putting them on a certain diet to increase the quality or the quantity of the milk produced. In this news story, they are trying to restrict raw milk from being in stores for health reasons. Some people got a bad case of raw milk that sent them to the hospital and now the agriculture police don’t want any in stores. I mean, any food handled without proper care is going to be poisonous to the body, doesn’t matter whether it passes through many safety processes or you just plain drink it straight from a cow.

It is the people’s choice whether they want to drink raw milk or not. You can get bacteria or diseases from anyone, don’t matter if they drink raw milk or not. Raw milk has more nutritional value than processed milk. It does have less of a shelf life. However, whether to consume it or not is up to the people. I mean not everyone can drive to a farm for fresh milk and if they are so worried, put a label on it to indicate a person’s right to drink the raw milk knowing that it might be hazardous to their health. They should be aware, I am assuming many people drink it based on having knowledge of what it is they are consuming. Restricting raw milk to certain places can hurt the people economically and take away their right to choose.