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This outfit is little more than a PR outfit for large corporation.

There seems to be an effort to ferret out raw milk. Keep in mind that

Dean Foods, the nations largest fluid milk processor paid $1,275,000 to

lobbyist last year. Rumor has it that Dean Foods and DFA, the monopoly

co-op are behind many cases.

Bunting

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The "Alternative" to Pasteurized

Milk May Be Illness and Death

By Ruth

Kava, Ph.D., R.D.

Six

children have been hospitalized with E. coli O157:H7 infections,

acquired from drinking unpasteurized (raw) milk. As of this writing,

three are reported to still be in

the hospital in Oregon -- two in critical condition.

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." While

the author of that quote, philosopher Santayana, probably wasn't

talking about the history of public health and food safety, he might

well have been.

One of the great advances in public health in the United States was

the adoption of pasteurization of milk in the 1920s and 30s.

Previously, many babies and children became ill and died from consuming

contaminated milk. But pasteurization, a process of heating milk

briefly to a temperature designed to kill disease-causing bacteria,

essentially put a halt to that problem.

Unfortunately, a segment of the population seems to have forgotten

that pasteurization is used for a good reason -- to protect health. As

part of the misguided "alternative" health movement, some have bought

into the myth that raw milk is nutritionally and otherwise superior to

milk that has been processed in any way. Added to that are unwarranted

fears of genetically-engineered hormones given to cows to prolong

lactation. Neither of these myths is true; but that hasn't stopped the

proliferation of farms that will provide the unwary with supposedly

beneficial raw milk.

For the truth about the composition and benefits of milk see ACSH's

publication What's

the Story: The Role of Milk in Your Diet and the ACSH article "Scientific

Panel Rejects NY Green Party Claims Regarding rBGH Milk Safety."

Ruth Kava, Ph.D., R.D., is Director of Nutrition at the American

Council on Science and Health (ACSH.org,

HealthFactsAndFears.com).

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