Re: raw sheep and goat milk

[Guest guest]

hi all......

i was wondering if raw sheep and goat milk are as great for us as raw cows

milk.

has anyone ever tasted raw sheeps milk?

thanks

holly

Holly Anne Shelowitz

Certified Nutrition Counselor, Herbalist, Alchemist

845.658.7887

www.nourishingwisdom.com

[Guest guest]

They seem to classify raw goat milk as being as good as cow's milk on the raw

dairy sites, but I don't think I've heard about sheep milk.

Carol

hi all......

i was wondering if raw sheep and goat milk are as great for us as raw cows

milk.

has anyone ever tasted raw sheeps milk?

thanks

holly

Holly Anne Shelowitz

Certified Nutrition Counselor, Herbalist, Alchemist

845.658.7887

www.nourishingwisdom.com

[Guest guest]

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> i was wondering if raw sheep and goat milk are as great for us as raw cows

> milk.

> has anyone ever tasted raw sheeps milk?

> thanks

> holly

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Depending on who you talk to, people will tell you goat milk is " the

closest to human milk " or the " easiest to digest " or has some special

unique magical qualities or whatever, and other people will say the

same thing about sheep milk, and yet other people will say the same

thing about horse milk, or donkey milk, or camel milk, or... You get

the picture.

But I've never heard a single person claim there was any health

advantage to cow milk over goat or sheep. My overall impression is

that goat and sheep milk are at least as good as cow milk in all

health aspects, and probably slightly more digestible and suitable for

humans, but the differences are probably insignificant and irrelevant

for most people in most situations. I recommend going by flavor

preference and availability / source quality factors. If I had only

one source of milk where the animals were raised with an appropriate

diet, good soil, etc, and twenty other sources of inadequate quality

milk from any animal of my choosing, I wouldn't care what kind of

animal the quality source was from--I'd pick it without hesitation.

As far as the flavor of raw sheep milk, well, if you look up the word

" hedonism " in the dictionary, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a

picture of me swigging a jar of fresh, raw sheep milk or sheep milk

kefir! Okay, maybe that would be a little surprising, but not if I

was the author of the dictionary!

In a different, obviously unintended, interpretation of your question,

the answer would be " many millions of happy, healthy people,

especially in Europe... "

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. --Alan Kay

[Guest guest]

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>> i was wondering if raw sheep and goat milk are as great for us

>as raw cows

>> milk.

>> has anyone ever tasted raw sheeps milk?

>> thanks

>> holly

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>Depending on who you talk to, people will tell you goat milk is " the

>closest to human milk " or the " easiest to digest " or has some special

>unique magical qualities or whatever, and other people will say the

>same thing about sheep milk, and yet other people will say the same

>thing about horse milk, or donkey milk, or camel milk, or... You get

>the picture.

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>But I've never heard a single person claim there was any health

>advantage to cow milk over goat or sheep. My overall impression is

>that goat and sheep milk are at least as good as cow milk in all

>health aspects, and probably slightly more digestible and suitable for

>humans, but the differences are probably insignificant and irrelevant

>for most people in most situations.

Actually, I think there could possibly be significant differences for many

people due to the presence of alpha-1 casein in cow's milk and lack thereof

(or in much smaller quantities) in goat's milk, and presumably in sheep's

milk. I've heard many anecdotes about people who could not tolerate cow's

milk but have no problem with goat's milk, probably due to an a-1 casein

allergy, which is the most common kind. It's true that Holsteins are the

one's with a lot of a-1 protein in their milk, but my understanding is that

other breeds have it as well. I don't recall whether goat milk is completely

free of a-1 casein or just has less (one NZ site claims NZ goats have no a-1

casein). So, for these folks, the species of origin does seem to make a

significant difference. According to a study in the NZ Medical Journal there

also may be a connection between a-1 casein and diabetes and Ischaemic heart

disease: http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/116-1168/295/ (although I'd be

cautious to accept their conclusions since they discuss some epidemiological

data on fat consumption that is incomplete or erroneous).

A-1 casein has become such an issue that a company in AU or NZ is producing

a-2 casein milk to address this issue. I'm not condoning this, just pointing

out that the issue of a-1 casein is significant enough that special cow milk

devoid of it is now being produced on a mass scale.

A Google search of " a-1 casein goat " provides much more info.

Suze Fisher

Lapdog Design, Inc.

Web Design & Development

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Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine

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