Kitchen Garden Forum

The following has recently been published by the Food Standards Agency

RAW MILK REVIEW
The Board of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) will decide next week whether the FSA should review the current rules governing the sale and marketing of unpasteurised, or raw, drinking milk and cream. This follows developments in the sale of raw milk which have seen producers using new routes of sale for their products, such as the internet and vending machines.
http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive ... ar/rawmilk

Thoughts please.

Am 60 years old next month still very active and feel young. 2 grown up kids ok. all brothers and sisters ok. all have had fresh farm milk need i say more

My formative years were spent consuming unpasteurized milk and I do not think that it ever did me any harm although I now have pasteurized but unhomogenized milk which I prefer.
Thousands of people, over the years, who were brought up on farms had no option and they do not seem to present any problems health-wise.
JB.

As a kid, if we ran short of milk I'd be sent to the farm with a bottle in hand. Milk straight from the milking machine churn was poured into a cooler where it ran slowly over a metal plate cooled by flowing springwater, and dripped into the bottle. I'd put the foil lid on with a hand press thingy, and away you go.

Didn't get ill very often.

I remember the press hand thingy at the farm down the road, another happy memory....

But i do wonder if it was the fresh milk, that has turned me into the fool i am today.

I had raw milk as a child, one of the cows must have had TB, i just developed a natural immunity to TB, no illness.