vote: Would you drink raw milk

Yes! Indeed I would!

The effects of pasteurization, chemicalization, improper handling of commercial dairie animals, would in my opinion be detrimental to someone with chemo.

52% Yes 48% No as of my vote.

If some dairy's were not allowed to pasteurize they would be forced to cull herds in order to make the milk safe to drink to begin with. That says something all on it's own. It shouldn't be ok to cover up illness by cooking it out. UP just goes to show how poorly handled livestock and disease is. If we're going to be passing any laws about raw vs pasteurized it seems like we should be making stronger restrictions for dairies and the animals they keep also. Offering raw milk forces a dairy/person to keep their animals and handling practices in tip top shape which should be a requirement either way.

JMHO

If the does are clean and free of disease, your collection was clean, and the milk was chilled quickly I see no reason a chemo patient couldn't have it.

As far as not voting because you don't have goats, would you drink it IF YOU had the opportunity? I think this is what matters. It doesn't matter if you have milk animals or not but rather would you if you had the choice.

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I voted no. It's a personal decision. I prefer milk to be pasteurized.

Yes is at 52%
No is at 48%

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I voted yes, but afterwards I thought it was too bad they didn't have more detail in the poll. I would drink raw milk from a clean, healthy homestead living cow. However I would not drink raw milk from the average commercial dairy cow who lives in a cow poop swamp 24/7 and gets a bunch of drugs pumped into it in an attempt to keep it healthy because of this.

I do, I will and nobody can stop me, even if I have to buy my own milker (goat, or cow) to get it! I live in an extended family situation and have 8 people living here, total. 2 of us drink fresh milk; my grandson for whom I am guardian, and I. Nobody else will touch the fresh milk for which I am glad, since I pay $6.50 /gallon. However the rest of the family suffers from allergies, frequent respiritory infections, being overweight, and various other obscure illnesses. I am convinced that if the fresh milk is locally produced, we receive the benefits of natural immunities, just as a newborn baby gets from "Mother's Milk."

Yes, I voted yes.

A better question for me would be, "would you drink pastuerized milk from the store?" And the answer is, NO! Who knows how bad it really is for you!

Jennifer

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I raised four children on raw milk. They were rarely sick. Now I've got another two and raising them on raw milk. If I couldn't get raw milk I wouldn't eat dairy at all.

The corporate produced, bleached pus that passes for *milk* in the grocery store has nothing in common with raw milk from a clean, healthy cow.

I just voted YES. The poll is 53% yes, 47% no.

Been drinking raw cow milk for two years. Don't ever want to go back. Haven't been sick in two years. Coincidence? Who knows, but my family hasn't been ill for nearly two years while my sisters families and my friends are afflicted with the common illnesses at "normal" rates.

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~Carla~

Voted yes. Grew up with milk out of the bulk tank

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Roger

Voted Yes, I milk 4 cows twice daily and a lot of people drink my milk, I also take chemo every week and it don't bother me to drink raw milk.

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Ervin
MO. Ozarks

I Voted YES!

Anyone else care to vote? Let us know the percentage when you vote.

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Paul Bridges - LaCabra Farm; Uvalda, Georgia - USA

Yes is at 58%!!
The poll is badly set up; you can vote more than once.

Here's my somewhat weird, overthinking issue on that poll...


It shouldn't be IF you would drink it. It should be IF you think it should be offered.


Honestly, just because I don't like brussell sprouts doesn't mean I think the grocery store should stop offering them (blech, but other people like them!)


I, personally, absolutely enjoy raw milk. But even if I didn't, I'm smart enough to decide whether or not I think it's safe.


Forgive my irritation.. my kids are on forced 16 day leave from school because they aren't vax'd for chix pox, and someone else's child has it. Doesn't matter that I WANT my kids exposed. So my perfectly healthy children are home... and every day is a war with ds trying to get him to concentrate on the schoolwork he should be doing in school, just so he doesn't fall behind when he goes back (our idea). I'm a little mad at gov't regs that don't make sense.... It's CHICKEN POX, not polio for goodness sake!!!! Stepping off my soapbox now... really...

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