Pasteurization kills what is healthful in this milk

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Ted Deals

Pasteurization kills what is healthful in this milk

By Ted Beals

Posted: March 20, 2010 |

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Families that drive long distances to obtain farm fresh, unprocessed whole

milk want the nutritional and health values they know are present in this

milk. They know how important it is for their growing children. There is no

controversy over the values of milk in our regular diet. All across the

country people are allowed to consume raw milk.

However, families have been faced with the threat that the Wisconsin

Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) would shut

down the dairies supplying this nutrient dense food. They say fresh milk is

inherently dangerous and poses a threat to the public health.

The truth is that fresh milk has been part of the diets of cultures around

the world for as long as recorded history. If it was dangerous, people would

have quit drinking it long ago. Those obsessed with banning raw milk repeat

over and over that people who drink it get sick. What they do not say is how

often this happens compared to the risks we face in everyday life.

Millions of Americans are drinking raw milk regularly. Outbreaks attributed

to raw milk are extremely rare. Using national data, the risk from injury

driving to pick up my fresh unprocessed whole milk is higher than the

reported risk of becoming ill from drinking that milk.

The experts agree, many ready-to-eat foods are far more risky than raw milk,

but DATCP is not closing down grocery stores and delis.

Those obsessed with banning the sale of raw milk claim that milk is

obviously dangerous because bacteria grow rapidly and even traces of

contamination will result in illness. Many bacteria, including some that are

necessary for our own digestive processes, do grow well in milk. Beneficial

bacteria are present in fresh milk and act like probiotics. Pasteurization

kills those beneficial bacteria. However, the rare virulent pathogens that

can cause disease in some people do not grow well in milk.

All of the textbooks on dairy science describe all of the various components

of milk that are altered by heating and they detail the proven destructive

effects of homogenization. So why do the industrial dairies pasteurize, some

even ultra-pasteurizing? Because the milk takes a long time to move through

the system from the farm to the grocery store. It can spoil before it

reaches the home.

When you obtain your raw milk fresh directly from your own personal dairy

farmer, you know where it is produced. You personally know the farm family.

Know they manage their dairy to provide clean milk from healthy cows fed to

maximize the nutritional value of the milk. These dairies are proud to show

you their pasture, how they care for their cows and produce milk that is

intended to be consumed unprocessed.

There is no plan to make everyone drink raw milk. Some families want the law

to allow them to choose to buy milk for their growing families that is not

pasteurized. They want the choice to find a dairy family that produces the

milk that they know is good, pay them fully for the effort they put into

providing a safe quality product. And they acknowledge that like everything

in life, nothing can be guaranteed totally safe.

Ted Beals is a pathologist who retired from the faculty of the University of

Michigan Medical School and the Senior Executive Service of the Department

of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C. He is an international consultant on

milk safety. He and his wife, Peggy, a registered nurse, live in Grass Lake,

Mich. They have consumed fresh, unprocessed whole milk from several Michigan

dairies for many years. Ted Beals is a pathologist who retired from the

faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School and the Senior

Executive Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C.

He is an international consultant on milk safety. He and his wife, Peggy, a

registered nurse, live in Grass Lake, Mich. They have consumed fresh,

unprocessed whole milk from several Michigan dairies for many years.

Alberto Machado

Medico Veterinário

Consultoria em Agroecologia

So A Pasto Agroecologia Ltda

Tel: 24-9956 9798

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