What is Raw Milk?

[Corie]

A local farm sells raw milk. What is that? Is it safe to drink?

Help!

[kijip]

It is not pasteurized. It can be safe to drink. It is not homogenized however, and many people getting raw milk are either shocked or turned off of it because of the separation of the fat. I won't drink any milk at all so it was a moot question personally but when we got some for my husband and T, they decided they did not like it AT ALL. You need to weigh the stated/claimed benefits of raw milk against the potential risk of non-pasteurized milk. Raw milk needs to be very fresh and most places that provide it do a good job of getting it to you fresh.

[Corie]

shocked or turned off of it because of the separation of the fat.

Okay, that grosses me out.

[BillK]

http://www.wtae.com/health/23199238/detail.html

[kijip]

Okay, that grosses me out.

I am with you but my grossed out reaction extends essentially all milk. I shudder at the thought of drinking any glass of milk but my husband and sons just love, love, love it. I have apparently been rejecting milk since I was a baby.

[Corie]

but my husband and sons just love, love, love it.

My daughter is a milk lover too. She is a Milk Connoisseur.

[ellies mom]

When I was a kid I loved raw milk. I've spent so many years drinking 2% that it would probably be hard for me to go back to it now.

[mommy111]

Wow, in Ohio? I wish I had known when we lived there. I love non-homogenized milk.

[Uno-Mom]

Another milk-hater here! Unless it's an ingredient.

I had a co-worker who refused to consume dairy that came out of a non-human animal. She said it was unnatural and disgusting. It made team pot-lucks a major pain because we love to cook with cream and cheese.

I was SO looking forward to bringing a creamy soup to work, tell her I used breast milk "just for her," and call her bluff! Sigh. I was saving that joke up for a whole year and then she went and quit 2 months before Sprog was born!

Sigh.

[salsah]

you have to get it! it is the best. i always thought that i didn't like milk until i tried real milk -- raw milk.

the "separation of the fat" is not gross, it is great. it's not like the oil separating in natural peanut butter. instead you have cream on top. when you get your jar, you can scoop the cream (fat) off of the top and use it to make butter or whipped cream or some really fattening delight. and then you are left with reduced fat milk. but so tasty!

if you want to ease yourself into it, you can boil the milk (w/ or w/o the cream).