Pls welcome Dora to the group!

[Guest guest]

Her introductory letter is below. Another lucky Californian, buying real

milk right off the store shelves!

Sara

RawDairy Co-Moderator

> Hi there,

>

> I'm a big fan of raw milk. I'm a member of the Weston A. Price

organization and a big fan > of the work of Sally Fallon and Enig. I

first found out about the benefits of raw

> milk from reading Nourishing Traditions and later from looking at the

Weston

> A. Price Foundation web site.

>

> I now buy about 10 quarts of raw milk for every quart of pasteurized milk.

I

> buy the raw milk at my local Whole Foods market here in Southern

California.

> I get both the Claravale and Organic Pastures brands, which are always

> available here. Sometimes I buy Claravale or OP raw cream as well, and I

> also buy Organic Pastures raw butter. My 16 month old twins drink raw milk

> exclusively, and I drink one or two cups a day. My 6 year old son drinks

> milk shakes occasionally. When he was younger, he had a severe allergy to

> dairy protein, and thus never developed the milk drinking habit. My twins

> have no sign of allergy to dairy, which may have something to do with

their

> drinking only raw milk. I have a lactose intolerance problem, but find

that

> I tolerate raw milk quite well. I usually drink it in the form of milk

> shakes or hot chocolate.

>

> I would still like to remain a member of the group, even though I don't

have

> time to read the digests. I am very grateful to live in California and be

> able to buy raw milk. I think the ban on raw milk in most states results

> either from commercial pressures or a weird phobia. By the way, I don't

> think the commercial producers need to worry about competition from raw

> milk. Raw milk consumers (from what I can tell) are part of a small

minority

> who have both the knowledge and the means to favor a superior product.

Where

> I shop, a quart of Claravale costs $3.49 a quart and a quart of Organic

> Pastures costs $3.99. You also pay a dollar deposit for the glass bottle,

> which you get back when you return the bottle to the store. Not many

people

> are willing to pay those kind of prices. (But some of them might if they

> realize they can use the raw milk to make fresh instead of commercial baby

> formula and still save money.)

>

> I buy organic pasteurized milk once in a while to save money and because

my

> babysitter prefers it. Its only advantage is that it seems to stay " fresh "

a

> little longer and I think it works better as a flavoring in hot tea. That

> may be because it has almost no taste of its own, so it doesn't interfere

> with the flavor of the tea.