So what is it about raw milk? You may have heard that people are drinking unpasteurized milk and it freaks you out given the e coli deaths related to spinach last year. What most people don’t understand is that organic products are not the problem, it’s the horrible concentration camps that animals are kept in that are now creating a backlash and killing human beings.
Mark McAfee was a certified paramedic for sixteen years in Fresno, running over 14,000 service calls. Mark had grown up on a farm and decide to make a career change and take over his father’s dairy farm. He wanted to produce organic milk and to not pasteurize it. Mark told me, “I took my ability to be a student and learned organic production and the clinical health benefits raw milk can bring people, which are tremendous.”
Today, Organic Pastures is the only certified raw dairy in California. It produces and retails 100 percent organic raw milk and dairy products. The dairy has 400 cows of wh
ich they milk 250, using a Grade A approved, 60,000 pound mobile milk barn—the only one of its kind in North America. The mobile barn is moved from pasture to pasture weekly, making it possible to milk 100 cows an hour eliminating the necessity for manure lagoons (disease breeding pits where manure is pumped) or herding the cows into concrete floored barns for milking.
Milk is chilled to 36 degrees Fahrenheit within thirty seconds of milking. Prior to bottling, the raw milk is tested to assure it exceeds the standards of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). (The CDFA is a state agency that works to ensure the safety and quality of food.) “The law states that milk after pasteurization must have less than 15,000 bacteria per milliliter,” Mark said, “Organic Pastures raw milk averages about 1,500 bacteria per milliliter. In four years of intensive testing by the CDFA, Organic Pastures’ milk has never once tested positive for Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes or E. coli O157:H7.”
Buddy, Rachel, Mousey, Mabel, Teresa are some of the Organic Pastures’ cows. To get healthy, clean milk, Mark said, “Youhave to care for cows like family. My wife sings to them and walks around and talks to them. The health of milk has everything to do with the way the cow is treated. You have to follow Mother Nature’s blueprint. A cow would never chose to stand on concrete or next to hundreds of other cows in a big manure pile. She will go find a luscious pasture to mingle with a small group of cows and find something green to eat.”
Organic Pastures has kept their herds fairly small and always have the cows on a lush green environment. Cows are grazed progressively, meaning that when a pasture gets depleted, cows are moved to fresh pastures, which are irrigated year round.
Raw milk products also contain enzymes, without which life cannot be sustained. Because pasteurization kills enzymes, strain is put on the pancreas to produce the enzymes to digest it. Without natural enzymes in milk, lactose is indigestible for many people. Raw milk from a strictly grass-fed cow is also extremely helpful for people with gastrointestinal problems, even for people who think they are lactose intolerant because raw milk contains the lactase enzyme to help digest lactose.
You can read more about the benefits of drinking raw milk in my book Death by Supermarket. Here is a link to an article Mark wrote about organic, real food. In the future Mark will be contributing guest blogs.
You can read more about Mark’s efforts to promote health through healthy milk here.
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DRINK RAW MILK
So what is it about raw milk? You may have heard that people are drinking unpasteurized milk and it freaks you out given the e coli deaths related to spinach last year. What most people don’t understand is that organic products are not the problem, it’s the horrible concentration camps that animals are kept in that are now creating a backlash and killing human beings.
Mark McAfee was a certified paramedic for sixteen years in Fresno, running over 14,000 service calls. Mark had grown up on a farm and decide to make a career change and take over his father’s dairy farm. He wanted to produce organic milk and to not pasteurize it. Mark told me, “I took my ability to be a student and learned organic production and the clinical health benefits raw milk can bring people, which are tremendous.”
Today, Organic Pastures is the only certified raw dairy in California. It produces and retails 100 percent organic raw milk and dairy products. The dairy has 400 cows of wh
ich they milk 250, using a Grade A approved, 60,000 pound mobile milk barn—the only one of its kind in North America. The mobile barn is moved from pasture to pasture weekly, making it possible to milk 100 cows an hour eliminating the necessity for manure lagoons (disease breeding pits where manure is pumped) or herding the cows into concrete floored barns for milking.
Milk is chilled to 36 degrees Fahrenheit within thirty seconds of milking. Prior to bottling, the raw milk is tested to assure it exceeds the standards of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). (The CDFA is a state agency that works to ensure the safety and quality of food.) “The law states that milk after pasteurization must have less than 15,000 bacteria per milliliter,” Mark said, “Organic Pastures raw milk averages about 1,500 bacteria per milliliter. In four years of intensive testing by the CDFA, Organic Pastures’ milk has never once tested positive for Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes or E. coli O157:H7.”
Buddy, Rachel, Mousey, Mabel, Teresa are some of the Organic Pastures’ cows. To get healthy, clean milk, Mark said, “Youhave to care for cows like family. My wife sings to them and walks around and talks to them. The health of milk has everything to do with the way the cow is treated. You have to follow Mother Nature’s blueprint. A cow would never chose to stand on concrete or next to hundreds of other cows in a big manure pile. She will go find a luscious pasture to mingle with a small group of cows and find something green to eat.”
Organic Pastures has kept their herds fairly small and always have the cows on a
lush green environment. Cows are grazed progressively, meaning that when a pasture gets depleted, cows are moved to fresh pastures, which are irrigated year round.
Raw milk products also contain enzymes, without which life cannot be sustained. Because pasteurization kills enzymes, strain is put on the pancreas to produce the enzymes to digest it. Without natural enzymes in milk, lactose is indigestible for many people. Raw milk from a strictly grass-fed cow is also extremely helpful for people with gastrointestinal problems, even for people who think they are lactose intolerant because raw milk contains the lactase enzyme to help digest lactose.
You can read more about the benefits of drinking raw milk in my book Death by Supermarket. Here is a link to an article Mark wrote about organic, real food. In the future Mark will be contributing guest blogs.
You can read more about Mark’s efforts to promote health through healthy milk here.