More Milk Industry Shenanigans
Here is a typical public relations or should say public brainwashing scheme. Ghost write and/or via an industry shill journalist shoot off a news article to all the news papers in the country making it look like local news...
Woodcock's, article is clearly short in substance but long on diatribe, in that, some how we are to take it that her personal opinion somehow supercedes facts regarding the nutritional superiority of unprocessed milk!
Contrary to the rubbish Woodcock spouts, here are some facts....
Children fed raw milk have more resistance to TB* than children fed pasteurized milk. (Lancet, p 1142, 5/8/37)
Pathological organisms do not grow in raw milk but proliferate in pasteurized milk. (The Drug and Cosmetic Industry, 43:1:109, July 1938)
Raw milk prevents scurvy and protects against flu, diphtheria and pneumonia. (Am J Dis Child, Nov 1917)
Raw milk prevents tooth decay. (Lancet, p 1142, 5/8/37)
Raw milk promotes growth and calcium absorption. (Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 518, p 8, 1/33)
Raw cream prevents joint stiffness. (Annual Review of Biochemistry, 18:435, 1944)
Raw milk protects against asthma and allergic skin problems. (Lancet 353:1485, 1999)
After three generations on pasteurized milk, cats developed numerous health problems and pathologies of behavior. At four generations, all reproduction ceased. (Pottenger's Cats, 1983, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation)
Pasteurization destroys B complex, C, D, enzymes and whey proteins. (See numerous abstracts listed at www.realmilk.com)
For the complete story see: Health Canada Vs Unpasteurized Milk
Regarding cleanliness:
Consumer Reports, January 1974, revealed that out of 125 tested samples of pasteurized milk and milk products, 44% proved in violation of state regulations. Consumer Reports concluded, The quality of a number of the dairy products in this study was little short of deplorable. Consumer Reports stated that former objections to pasteurized milk are valid today:
a) Pasteurization is an excuse for the sale of dirty milk.
b) Pasteurization may be used to mask low quality milk.
c) Pasteurization promotes carelessness and discourages the effort to produce clean milk.
Consumer's Union, reporting in June 1982, stated that coliform were found in many tested samples of pasteurized dairy products. Some had counts as high as 2200 organisms per cubic centimeter.
Extracted from: Raw Milk: How Safe Is It? which shows the actual yearly disease brake outs form pasteurized milk. I have not even covered the horrors of homogenization!
And here is what BMJ (British Medical Journal) in 1938, the same year when pasteurization was introduced, had to say:
*"Recent figures published regarding the spread of tuberculosis by milk show, among other facts, that over a period of five years, during which time 70 children belonging to a special organization received a pint of raw milk daily. One case only of the disease occurred. During a similar period when pasteurized milk had been given, 14 cases were reported."
Extracted from: Raw Milk Vs. Pasteurized Milk
Why not allow the sale of both raw milk and pasteurized milk? Let the buyer decide. That way phobics like Woodcock can buy what she wants and the more informed get what they want?
One can conclude from, what is presented above, that Woodcock is masquerading as independent journalist to get public traction when in fact she is simply the promoting the party line. She has no supporting evidence on what she says instead has to resort to excruciating theatrics to get the industries' point across. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Chris Gupta
Your can also write to the editor here and the paper here this story was also carried in The London Free Press.
-------------------------------February 20, 2007
In my memory, raw milk is the most revolting food on earth -- ahead of even turnip, boiled tongue and cooked cabbage.
It was sickeningly thick like whipping cream, still disgustingly warm from the cow and -- depending on what the cattle had been eating -- it often had a horrid aftertaste. When I was a kid, I had to drink a glass of it every meal when I visited my grandparents' farm.
It makes me gag just thinking about it -- without even beginning to contemplate the list of serious diseases you can pick up from it.
Yuck.
And I really have a hard time with Michael Schmidt, the Durham, Ont., farmer who has been charged with operating a milk-processing plant without a licence.
Schmidt has made a career out of dancing along a fine Ontario legal line by selling individual shares in his cows and he's been convicted before. But since the law allows farmers to drink their own milk, each "shareholder," he argues, is an owner (a second farmer in eastern Ontario recently started the same kind of system with similar results).
Schmidt's case is to come to court in Orangeville today and I hope they throw the book at him.
Under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, it's illegal to sell, deliver or distribute raw milk in Ontario. Milk can be sold only to the Dairy Farmers of Ontario, the marketing agency. Pasteurization, to kill any harmful bacteria, has been in force since 1938. Why? Raw milk can kill you.
HORRID DISEASES
There are numerous horrid -- sometimes fatal -- diseases you can catch from raw milk. Let us count the ways: Tuberculosis, brucellosis, listeria, salmonella, E.coli, campbylobacter gastroenteritis, plus staph and strep infections.
According to Dr. Murray McQuigge, medical officer of health for Grey Bruce region, unpasteurized milk is "one of the most dangerous sources of food poisoning since recorded time. There never was and cannot be a safe system for marketing raw milk."
There are any number of ways in which disease can affect raw milk, despite Schmidt's claims that it's safe: Licenced dairy farmers' premises and herds are inspected regularly. Schmidt's, because he's unlicenced, are not.
And then there's the truck he uses to transport milk, the containers in which he sells it, the length of time it takes him to get to the Toronto parking lot where he delivers it from his Durham farm and the temperature at which he maintains it.
A cousin of mine, the current owner of the farm where I once choked down my raw milk, stopped drinking his own product more than 20 years ago when his wife acquired a severe case of salmonella poisoning. They never had proof their milk caused it, but they've been buying it in bags at the supermarket ever since.
Schmidt, who likes to portray himself as a hero fighting an unfair system, claims raw milk is healthy and chock full of good things killed by pasteurization. A myth, according to health officials.
He claims to have nothing but altruistic reasons for his actions.
But I think he's being more than a little disingenuous.
What he's really doing is trying to sell milk without purchasing quota -- as the other 4,800 Ontario dairy farmers have to do -- at $30,000 per kilo (of butterfat daily). My cousin owns 60 kilos. You do the math.
So no, it's not the milk. As in most things in this world these days, it's the money.
posted by Chris Gupta on Wednesday February 21 2007
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http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2007/02/21/more_milk_industry_shenanigans.htm
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