Guest guest Posted April 13, 2001 Report Share Posted April 13, 2001 Regarding the NZ butter...I tried buying it and discovered due to some labeling problems, they aren't able to import it into the US right now. My relatives are all farmers and spend time each year in NZ sharing ideas with farmers there. I had asked them to bring some butter back for me however they were unable to due to the hoof and mouth scare. I did learn from them that some of the NZ farmers are starting to feed their cows grain to boost milk production. Right now, milk and dairy products are at all all time high. I don't know if this is due to the hoof and mouth disease in Europe or not. So the farmers are after the short term profits, adding grain to their animals diets to boost production. I do purchase the Kerrygold butter and it is excellent. I'm fortunate to be able to buy it at an upscale market here in my neighborhood. A friend of mine that lives in Arizona has been ordering their butter and having it shipped to him and it has been fine. He has tried ordering a couple other butters and had problems with their packaging and the butter arriving rancid however, not the case with the Kerrygold. Enjoy it until you can get the pasture fed stuff like I'm searching for as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2001 Report Share Posted April 13, 2001 Here is a promising raw grass-fed butter option that has recently appeared! Cheers, Raw Butter Update #3Dear Friends,Thank you all for your calls and e-mails and general support. Some of you (very few) were able to sample the small quantity of butter that we produced recently. Everyone loved it. What will be coming in the spring and summer will be even better--bright yellow from grass fed cattle that produce certified organic raw milk!! This butter will be very high in CLA content (conjugated linoleic acid).We are now ready to start taking orders! As with any new operation, we will be gradually increasing production. The first round of production will provide 200 pounds. Each month thereafter the quantity will increase. We have the capacity to go as high as 2,000 pounds per month. So there should be plenty for everyone. But you will have to bear with us for the first month or two as p! roduction will be limited.Remember these points:1. Butter will be shipped once per month (for now), within a day or two of being freshly churned.2. Minimum order (for now) is 12 pounds or more. That is what I always order for myself and my wife. It will keep in the fridge for at least 3 months. And when it does start to mold you will have a very healthy raw blue cheese. I just saw some on the internet for $16 per pound.3. All shipments will arrive 2nd Day Air to the shipping address you include in your order. We will ship anywhere in the continental United States.4. The price is $12 per pound, which includes shipping. To give you an idea of the breakdown-- $2.75 per pound goes for shipping and another $.25 per pound covers the tubs, cold packs and carton.5. Orders must be received by mail. Please, no phone or e-mail orders (for now).6. Please try to! communicate with me via e-mail as much as possible. I am often away for 2 or 3 days or more and can always respond from my laptop. If you don't have an e-mail account or have not yet lost your computer-virginity, perhaps you can use a friend's e-mail account until you take the techno-plunge and obtain your own.Tracking and ShippingI have worked out a very detailed system for tracking and shipping orders. As mentioned earlier, the first round of production will yield 200 pounds, delivered right around April 15th. Then on May 15th we will probably ship at least twice that amount. And so on, one shipment a month. This schedule may become more frequent down the road but that is the current plan. It is a system that will work for the dairy farm.That means that the first group of orders that arrive here totalling 200 pounds will be shipped on April 15th. Orders arriving! after the 200 pound quota will be shipped May 15th. And so on. I suggest that you simply place your order now. You may have to wait for your first order but by the time you are ready to place a second order, production will be high enough to accommodate most everyone within a reasonable time frame.I suggest you place your second order when you are down to a one month reserve of raw butter.The Near FutureAfter things get going for a few months I will see if the farm can ship weekly or even daily instead of monthly, and eliminate the minimum order requirement. But for now this is the way we have to do it to accommodate their already busy schedule. Also, as the volume increases I will try to lower the price (as a result of cheaper shipping costs, etc.)In the weeks ahead I will see about the possibility of adding raw, unsalted cheese and raw cream to the product line. The bu! tter is the best I have ever had--Aajonus Vonderplanitz recently sampled it and loved it! The butter comes from certified organic milk, in addition to being raw and unsalted and grass fed (except in the winter months when the cows eat wet hay "baleage", not silage or soy). The people who run the farm are totally into nutrition and Natural Healing.Be assured that I want to provide you with timely service and will do everything I can to keep adjusting the system in order to improve it. The product is the best I have ever seen, so it's worth whatever we have to do to keep the fat flowing!!To summarize the ordering procedure:1. Please send your order to: Utter Butter Ron Strauss 10336 Loch Lo! mond Rd., #125 Middletown, CA 954612. Include your name, phone number, e-mail address, shipping address, and number of pounds ordered.3. Please send your payment in the form of a cashier’s check or money order (bank or postal). No personal checks please (for now).Please make out the money order to “cash” or to “Ron Strauss”. Please do not make out to Utter Butter.Note: Feel free to refer people. They can e-mail me and I will send them this letter or you can simply give them a copy of this letter and they can just send in their order. Please qualify your people. I would rather not hear from a medical doctor who is not sure about raw dairy but would like to try some!! On the other hand, we need to build a steady clientele and a steady flow of orders that will nurture and encourage my Mennonite friends to keep producing and expanding. ! This is a low-profile process attempting to preserve an important health-enhancing food in a society that is fat-phobic and raw-phobic!! Did you know that the L.A. milk commission is now trying to get raw milk banned throughout California? Furthermore, there is even a movement afoot to eliminate the production of raw cheese (which is still plentiful and available in health food stores and by mail). Thus my request for you to qualify your referrals. Thanks.That's it for the moment. Thank you for your patience.I remain,Butter than Ever,Ron Strauss :-)healself@...707-928-4170 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2001 Report Share Posted April 14, 2001 What ON EARTH is " conjugated " linoleic acid? Thanks,Janice _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest guest Posted April 14, 2001 Report Share Posted April 14, 2001 , thanks for relating your experiences with the two kinds of butter I asked about. Christpher, thank you for the raw, GF butter info. It sounds like just what I've been hoping to find! It's expensive, but probably worth it. I don't personally know anyone near me who would want to split an order, so I need to decide if I can deal with spending that much money on butter all at once. I can freeze some so it will keep well, I suppose. Do you know Ron Strauss? I assume since you forwarded the info that you feel this is a reliable source and the product is represented honestly. Aubin __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2001 Report Share Posted April 14, 2001 --- Janice Mitter <warm_bodies_@...> wrote: > What ON EARTH is " conjugated " linoleic acid? A substance that should be in our food, but has been largely removed from the food supply because of the factory farming methods used in raising animals. Here's a quote from " The Skinny on Fats " , on the WAPF website, an excerpt from Nourishing Traditions (I hope this isn't too much of a copyright violation): ************************ Conjugated Linoleic Acid: Butter from pasture-fed cows also contains a form of rearranged linoleic acid called CLA, which has strong anticancer properties. It also encourages the buildup of muscle and prevents weight gain. CLA disappears when cows are fed dry hay or processed feed. ************************ And here's a link explaining a little about it: http://www.eatwild.com/cla.htm Aubin __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 14, 2001 Report Share Posted April 14, 2001 THANKS! ----Original Message Follows---- From: Aubin Parrish <aubinparrish@...> Reply- Subject: Re: butter Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 14:02:44 -0700 (PDT) --- Janice Mitter <warm_bodies_@...> wrote: > What ON EARTH is " conjugated " linoleic acid? A substance that should be in our food, but has been largely removed from the food supply because of the factory farming methods used in raising animals. Here's a quote from " The Skinny on Fats " , on the WAPF website, an excerpt from Nourishing Traditions (I hope this isn't too much of a copyright violation): ************************ Conjugated Linoleic Acid: Butter from pasture-fed cows also contains a form of rearranged linoleic acid called CLA, which has strong anticancer properties. It also encourages the buildup of muscle and prevents weight gain. CLA disappears when cows are fed dry hay or processed feed. ************************ And here's a link explaining a little about it: http://www.eatwild.com/cla.htm Aubin __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2001 Report Share Posted April 15, 2001 Aubin, I don't know Ron Strauss personally but have had a number of email exchanges where he answered my questions to my satisfaction. I believe Ron gave the Foreword to Aajonus' book "We Want to Live." Feel free to contact him yourself if you have questions of your own. Thanks for the CLA posting - you beat me to it. Cheers, ----- Original Message ----- From: Aubin Parrish Sent: 4/14/2001 1:49:29 PM Subject: Re: butter , thanks for relating your experiences with the two kinds of butter I asked about. Christpher, thank you for the raw, GF butter info. It sounds like just what I've been hoping to find! It's expensive, but probably worth it. I don't personally know anyone near me who would want to split an order, so I need to decide if I can deal with spending that much money on butter all at once. I can freeze some so it will keep well, I suppose. Do you know Ron Strauss? I assume since you forwarded the info that you feel this is a reliable source and the product is represented honestly. Aubin __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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