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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Illegal Moo

RAW MILK

" ... actually unpasteurized, unhomogenized milk. Big difference. Raw Milk is usually refering to the milk that comes from a cow who has just calved. It is full of blood spots, slime and other gross components and is usually just fed to the calves. It takes about 3 to 5 days for the milk to “clear up” enough for human consumption."

As an erstwhile summer-time farm boy what milked cows, I know what cow milk from the teat tastes like. Grammaw made me drink it as punisment for trampling her parsnips, and such. Still, where does the great government brood sow get off trumping ganny's preogatives?

Rodger the Real King of France 5/25/2011 09:21:00 AM 19 Comments

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El Jefe said...: Mike Church went off on the Feds and unpasteurized milk on Monday after the Feds set up a 'sting' operation on an Amish farm in Ohio.; 5/25/11, 9:29 AM
pdwalker said...: There are no bounds that government is unwilling to overstep.; 5/25/11, 9:53 AM
Anonymous said...: I grew up on a dairy farm. (40's & 50's) When I went to school (first grade) there was a gvt program that gave school children a 1/2 pint of milk at mid morning. After we drank the milk ALL the children from dairy farms were sick (we vomited). The milk tasted burnt to me. After that none of the dairy kids drank the "store bought" milk.

ron; 5/25/11, 9:56 AM
I-RIGHT-I said...: My Grandma had a cow as well. She'd milk that beast then bring the stuff to the house in an old tin bucket and try to serve it to the kids. Straw, dirt, and god knows what else floating on the top. Even my farming cousins wouldn't drink that shit. She eventually gave up and bought the good stuff whenever we visited. I trusted Elsie, Bossy not so much. Fresh laid eggs though, that's a chicken of another color.; 5/25/11, 10:03 AM
Anonymous said...: Really Right? I prefer my eggs with the chicken shit washed off of them.

Casca; 5/25/11, 10:07 AM
I-RIGHT-I said...: You know, I remember the chicken shit on those eggs not bothering me one bit. When you're a hungry boy and in "hunter-gatherer mode" a little chicken shit is just chicken shit. Dang, now I'm hungry.; 5/25/11, 10:30 AM
Anonymous said...: fresh unpasteurized cows milk is great-but yeah most folks know enough to run it through a filter.
RAK; 5/25/11, 10:36 AM
Anonymous said...: Forced to drink raw cow's milk or forced to eat parsnips ... which is worse?; 5/25/11, 10:52 AM
Spunky Texan said...: We used to get farm fresh milk in these glass gallon jugs with the cream floating on top when I was a kid. Ice cold, and the cream removed, there was nothing better.

Governmnet is so getting out of control; 5/25/11, 11:03 AM
SFAOV Sgsaur said...: Cold, fresh cream dipped off the top of the milk is the best tasting thing in the world on Rice Crispies.; 5/25/11, 11:38 AM
Alear said...: My Grand-Aunt Maggie O'Boyle, with a brogue, told of her cousin selling a cow back in the old country. He didn't mention to the customer that the cow was dead. Cue Monty Python.

Turing word: uppersd. This is getting spooky -- I'm not two hours back from the dentist, where he did some work on my uppers.; 5/25/11, 11:43 AM
Anonymous said...: Long time Lurker, first time commenter. Anonymous because of the blogger.com format only.

ASSHOLES-- you are. Raw milk simply means unpasteurized. No one on the farm drinks blood clots and mastitic milk.
You people are ignorant assholes. Fuck off.; 5/25/11, 2:34 PM
Anonymous said...: I like my milk medium rare, so that it's still a little pink in the middle.

I'd come down on the farmers side in this dispute, but those "protesters" are the same tree hugging lefty lunatics you see at every "protest" rally. You know, a stopped watch and all that...
GrinfilledCelt; 5/25/11, 2:50 PM
TimO said...: In the 70s my family visited some of our West Virginia relatives who still heated/cooked on a coal stove and grew their own food (no indoor plumbing either!), so yeah I've had raw milk right from the cow. Had stuff floating in it, too.

Now if you want a REAL treat, find some milk or ice cream from pure-bred Gurnsey cows that has about triple the butterfat of store-bought milk. It is to die for....; 5/25/11, 3:00 PM
Anonymous said...: When I lived in Austin, TX we were referred to a private dairy farmer who ran certified Jerseys. Twice a week (Tuesdays and Fridays) I swung by to pick up our two gallons allotted. The ex- would skim the cream and make butter (Hah! Now I know what that Kitchen-Aid was good for!!) and we would drink the richest, most delicious milk I have EVER had!

Unfortunately, his wife got breast cancer and the whole operation shut down. Then we moved to Houston.

The Hairy-nosed Wombat; 5/25/11, 3:47 PM
Spunky Texan said...: I remember when I was traveling in Alabama (Mawntgumry), they sold "whole milk". Now I am not sure of the difference between Whole Milk and Vitamin D that they sell out here, but I sure thought the Whole Milk tasted better. It was in a non-clear container instead of the semi-clear container we have here.; 5/25/11, 4:28 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: The real prollem with today's branded milk is in the pasteurization process. If it's pasteurized at a low temperature for like 40 minutes, it loses none of it's vitamin/mineral content. However, large scale producers go with the 2 minute job, with temps like 5000º. What's left is white water. (simplifed). I only buy that natural processed milk anymore. Man is it sweet and tasty.; 5/25/11, 7:41 PM
Anonymous said...: A "long-time lurker" lets a milque toast discussion in re: milk set him/her off? Whew! Must have been an exceptionally bad day at the customer service counter.
Angus - BASC; 5/25/11, 8:17 PM
Anonymous said...: Actually it was the quoted article that seemed to get his panties in a wad...hell, starbucks probably used 2% instead of his usual skim & he's still itching after his breast augmentation operation...; 5/25/11, 8:30 PM

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Illegal Moo

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