When and Why was Real Milk banned?

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Back in the bad old days, when the nation was growing and population centers were jumping and getting food to them in the late 1800s and early 1900s was a challenge, dairies had to be close to the source of consumption. Long Island, NY was a dairy center until well into the 1980s. The Bronx, Brooklyn and even Manhattan had dairies. But how to feed these cows? And what to do with the Manure? Some of these were truly "Factory Farms," with livestock on multiple stories or floors, in basements and you can imagine the odors. And the cost of hauling commodities such as hay and corn to feed them. About that time, and before the Volstead Act went into place, cows were commonly fed brewers grain, and stale bread. Anything that would make milk. And in those conditions, you can imagine that disease was rampant. Bangs, TB and

many others. And people got it from the milk, mostly due to poor sanitation. To pasteurize such milk was probably a good idea. As is always the case, some bad actors were adulterating a good product to make money and the Government had to step in to regulate. As as the late Harvey (who kept a milk cow at his Revile Farm in Missouri) said, "Now you know the rest of the story." On the other hand, millions of rural families and farms kept cows, ran them on pasture, drank the milk themselves and sold to friends and neighbors, here in NC until the mid 1980s. My grandparents on both sides had a milk cow and so did my parents. I can still remember the livery stable in my home town. It stayed in business, not for horses, but because several people in town kept a cow for their own milk. They went over daily to milk. The stable owner milked in the AM and sold the milk to other folks for boarding

the cow. I still remember when they tore the building down in 1963, because my Dad bought the cows and we sold milk to the former owners of those cows for several years. My first encounter with pasteurized milk was when I started school in 1960. I told my mom that milk came in a little box and did not taste good. For about 5 years, from 2000 until 2006, we had our own cow and drank raw. My urban raised wife had never had it and is a total convert. I even ran the "Mooshine Expess" out of the back of my truck and it did not make me rich but kept me in walking around money. We are currently able to buy milk from a local grass and silage dairy that uses a batch pasteurizer that goes to 160 degrees and does not homogenize. Nor do they adjust the fat. While it is not raw, it is way better than the other whole milk in the store. Do I think Raw Milk should be drunk by everyone? Of course. Do I think milk

produced at 15,000 cow commodity dairies should be sold raw? Of course not. Should we have the liberty to make informed decisions about what we eat and drink, how we educate our children, choose other food, seek medical care, own firearms, participate in any type of economic activity and generally take care of ourselves so we do not become wards of the nanny state? HELL YES!!TRUE STORY RE the over regulation and nanny state condition of our nation : On Sunday we went to a nearby military town to celebrate the 1 year birthday of our grand daughter. During the Adult discussion, my daughter-in-law mentioned that she had to move the grand daughter to another day care because when my son returned from deployment, they did not have priority to have her in a day care on base. This new day care is 8 miles in the opposite direction from her work. (Before you ask why she is working with a one year old, she makes more than my son, who is a Sergent, local

rent is insane, military pay is not so great) As we inquired, it was revealed that the spouses of deployed have first dibs to on base day care, next is single parents, mostly moms and then regular normal married folks with both parents present. It also turns out the if a female military person is pregnant, they do not have to deploy with their unit. And single moms have a high chance of getting day care close to work, so what the hey, get pregnant, don't have to go get shot at and increase pay. What a deal. I am not in favor of any sort of discrimination. My son is about to go to Afghanistan for the 3rd time. There is in his company, an individual who has been in longer than my son, has the same rank and has never deployed, because she has three children, admittedly by different fathers, pregnant each time the unit was to deploy, and has never seen action. And she hollered when she did not make Sergent the first time, so

that when the opportunity came around the second, a two time deployed MAN had to wait his turn. Just think about it.BillRoseboro, NCSwitch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use

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