Raw Milk: Why it's amazing

[sparke328]

No, you did not read that wrong. Raw Milk. Straight from the utter. It's never pasteurized and contains good bacteria for your digestive system. DISCLAIMER: you may disagree with me and that's fine. Have your disagreements but please be respectful.

running with the cows 🐄🐄

In this myTake I have three things to share about raw milk: how it tastes, its positive benefits, and my experiences because of it.

This will be a generally 'quick' myTake because there is so much information and I want you as the reader to have some basic information but research more on your own. This will help you form your own educated opinions without me telling you what to think. I hope that makes sense and enjoy the myTake!

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1. Incredibly Delicious

Have you ever taken a sip of milk and felt like it tastes fake, or it's watered down, or it doesn't have the creaminess that fills you up? I have too. When ever I go over to my friends' houses and have a taste of their milk, I don't feel content. I might be because I have adapted a taste for raw whole milk, but I don't know. As a raw cow milk drinker, I can testify that it is sooo good. The flavor is rich, creamy, and very hearty. While you may be thinking, "oh of course she says this. I mean she's writing a myTake on it and has to be biased." Well, then take someone else's word for it.

~Raw Milk is Delicious!~

Once I invited a classmate over to my house for a project. Looking for something to drink she found the milk and curious she asked me about it. At first she was a little suspicious since she had never tried unpasteurized milk before but decided to give it a go. As soon as she took a sip(and I'm not kidding or exaggerating), she declared, "This is AMAZING! Wow! Your milk is SO good! I don't think I've ever had milk this good!" As she finished her glass, she asked for more, eager to gulp down the delicious beverage.

If I had to be honest, her reaction surprised me because I hd been taken our raw milk for granted, not realizing that its pure goodness! To this day, every time she comes over, she immediately goes for the milk. And I'm not exaggerating. I guess raw milk is just that good!

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2. Positive Health Benefits

First off, what is raw milk? All milk starts off raw— unprocessed, unpasteurized, and whole. Raw milk contains living probiotic bacteria which benefits the consumer's digestive system, boosting their immune system, giving them the opportunity to fight off bad bacteria and viruses. I have added some charts below as a quick comparison to other milks (note: they are kinda biased lol).

comparison of raw versus pasteurized cow milk about the process(ing)

Raw milk is easier to digest as a result of it being unprocessed. Such an example can be taken with juice as well. What do you think is better for you? Lemonade that you just squeezed yourself or Minute Maid Lemonade that came out of a can? Of course the one you made, because it is unprocessed and you know exactly what's in it. The same is for raw milk. Since they don't add anything, it is much easier on your digestive system and filled with nutrition that your body and gut needs.

differences & similarities between different milk types

I will add that not ALL raw milk is amazing because there is a risk of E. coli and other unhealthy bacteria; however, raw milk farms are made aware of this and have rigorous testing to make sure that all of their milk is safe to consume and good for you. Such testing does make the milk more expensive, but the quality is worth the money.

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3. My Experiences

I bet you all are curious, how did raw milk help this teenager? Well at age 8, my dad and I had some form of lactose intolerance where it made it hard for him to consume milk while I got stomach pain from drinking it. He went on a search for better milk, first looking into glass containers(I don't know what he was thinking but bear with me please). Eventually, during this milk search, my mom found a farm called "Organic Pastures" telling people about raw milk, its benefits, and how it helps with lactose intolerance.

At first I was skeptical— how could this "special" milk help me? Although after a few weeks and months of taking it, I began to feel so much better. I wouldn't notice any pain and my dad felt better as well.

As time went on, I also began to notice how I got less and less sick, to a point where I wouldn't get sick for over 3 years. I might get a cold here and there just because of so much exposure to sickness, but when it came down to missing school, I was there every day. I pretty much had a perfect attendance record.

To this day I continue to drink raw milk. It has helped me in ways I cannot explain, even during this pandemic.

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Thank you for reading my myTake and while raw milk may not be perfect, I still find it amazing. If you want to read/learn more about this movement towards #rawgoodness, I will leave links below. Thanks and I hope you have a great day!

https://www.rawmilkinstitute.org/about-raw-milk (learn more here about raw milk)

https://www.organicpastures.com/home (all about organic pastures)

https://www.rawmilkinstitute.org/find-raw-milk (find you nearest raw milk provider)

5 ways drinking raw milk can improve your health (health)

http://bcherdshare.org/the-health-benefits-of-raw-milk/ (health benefits)

🐄 #rawmilk #organicpastures

[Stingray444]

Ouu, I like this MyTake. I'm gonna have to try some Raw Milk next time I'm at the store 😂😂😃 Thanks for sharing xd!

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I have tried fresh raw milk from cows & goats.
They were surprisingly delicious.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

@sparke328: Thank you for the MHGirl pick. :)

[Massageman]

Great points. Thanks for the details.

[Kaneki05]

I hate skimmed milk that tastes water down. But i do love my full fat. More fat the better so i dunno if i would find this milk fat enough.

But i will have to try this at some point. You make good points and have facts to prove it is more logical to drink it pure.

However i am trying to cut my milk drinking cause it actaully can cause many problems. Which i know pure still could. Since milk isn't meant for humans. So it can still have bad side effects.

No the less tho gonna try this and i think your right on everything you have said.

[Surely]

I was raised on a small dairy farm with Holstein cows. We usually pasteurized their milk for our use. After we sold them, we purchased a Guernsey cow for our own milk.
We made ice cream, butter, whipped cream and drank her milk raw. She produced about one third cream with her milk. The kind where you could chew the fat off of the cereal spoon. Sound disgusting, right?
Never had any problems and didn't gain weight from drinking it.
Had a chiropractor tell us that if you can drink the milk as clean as it comes out of the cow, there will not be a problem.
Also heard that when you pasteurize it, you kill everything in it ( Good and Bad ) and that your body doesn't recognize what to do with it.
Have friends with IBS and they say that it went away after drinking raw milk.
You won't get any arguments from me about drinking raw milk.

[arabgoddess]

Great take! You've done awesome research..
Though..
Any sort of cows milk will send my digestive tract into chaotic mode.. Cow's milk isn't for everyone and for those who can't drink it due to allergies, all the benefits it promises, won't be delivered.. And would be like a 'posion'. For those who tolerate it well... Enjoy the benefits ☺

[Walrus_au]

There are no health benefits that are any better than pasturised milk
On the flip side, it's a fast and effective method of food poisoning, killing mostly children.

Way to go promoting mythology and getting people to kill their children in the name of a fallacy.

all referenced with the research :-
https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/raw-milk-misconceptions-and-danger-raw-milk-consumption

[sparke328]

well good for you. thanks for being semi respectful though. for me it helps, for others it helps, maybe for you it's poison but it helps me and that's how I know it works.

[Walrus_au]

Ohhh, you're not human? Because if you are then you are just as succeptable to these diseases as everyone else.
And it's not about milk being "a poison" it's about bacterial contamination. Something that pasteurization resolves for the most part.

So, for humans it is basically an entirely UN-necessary risk. If you want to take that risk yourself, good for you, but you should be aware of the risk before you make the decision.

And to that end, you should be aware of what benefit claims may be real or are just a sales pitch. When you have that information then you can make an informed decision, rather than just following some claim.

[sparke328]

i know the risks but i also know the benefits outweigh the risks. thank you for your opinion but please stop attacking me. also i know what I read and what I experience. also actions > words.

[Walrus_au]

I'm not attacking you.
I think you have been given some really shitty information and ideas, but ideas are not people, and you are a person.

Are you so attached to this idea that you can't consider it in the light of evidence? I mean if what you say is true, then what could the idea suffer for being tested right?

I ask because those tests have been done. some of them are referenced in the FDA article I linked.
Personally, if I was eating, drinking or taking something with the hope of health improvements, and the risk of chronic illness or death, I would want to know for sure that it gives what is claimed right? How can looking at the tests be problematic?

[sparke328]

eh whatever. irdc. i do want to make it clear that I see your comment but there's no use in what you have to say ~to me directly~ because i know about other studies but this is a ~myTake~ and I'm expressing ~my~ review on the drink and my ideas and experiences about it. It's not an FDA take and like I said, people are welcome to do some research on their own to make their own opinions but I'm just trying to introduce the topic and possibility to people who might want something new.

Also not trying to seem rude here but point-blank. sometimes my tone doesn't match up with my words. thanks for the link though. there's another website people can use to know more about it.

[Walrus_au]

you find the reality not to be something you care about? Then I am talking to the wrong audience.

I lived near a community in Australia that had a spate of child deaths due to raw milk consumption.
The parents had a choice, the child did not.

But your assertion that it doesn't affect you is rather naive. Bacterial infections, food poisoning and the like really don't care about what people believe, they just do their thing.

Still, I'm getting the idea that I am well into the TL:DR range. So good luck.

[sparke328]

3 words. super strict testing.

[Walrus_au]

Two words
Dead Children
www.sbs.com.au/.../three-year-old-child-dies-after-drinking-unpasteurised-milk-in-victoria
A little more info to drop
www.health.qld.gov.au/.../raw-milk.doc

[Walrus_au]

Some info on the risks and comparative benefits when compared with pasteurized.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/raw-milk-in-modern-times/

sciencebasedmedicine.org/.../

[Kaneki05]

Rare, immue systerm normally has no problem with these pathgons, side effect be sick for a week.
A 16 year old ain't gonna die from it. Meanwhle a young child would just like anything too young and too old it would have bad side effects for. Normal healthy people will be just fine.

So there is zero problem with her drinking it. And basically ever food has some sort of risk from bactira just some less than others or cooked right and stuff.

You could say it's a risk but honestly it's like saying walking outside is cause you may get run over. Or eating chicken may give you food posioning if you didn't cook it right by accident.

Ethier way key word is rare. And don't give bactria to old people or young kids lol

[Walrus_au]

@Kaneki05 Not so rare.
At the ideal, with perfect handling, the immune system and intestinal flora can handle it in adults. Provided they are not immune compromised.
It doesn't take much of a miss-handling for some of those pathogens to grow from an innocuous dose to a severe dose.

My main issue here isn't with an adult making her own decision, provided it's informed.
My issue is promoting it to people who don't know better, don't have the understanding to know that "hey my illness compromises my immune system, something that will overwhelm that is not going to HELP me." They just want to get every edge.

And on top of that, the benefit of it over pasturised milk, perhaps taste, The milk won't have nearly the shelf life, and will unpredictably become dangerous, especially to the children, elderly and sick. Those that cannot make their own decisions, or are trying to do so with uninformed best interests at heart.

Physically, there is no benefit of raw over pasturised. The method of consumption that breaks down everything anyway, means that any sugars or proteins that are broken or denatured are irrelevant, because your body is going to rip them apart to absorb their constituent parts anyway.

Like I said, several times, people can eat and drink what they want for themselves. I would much prefer those decisions be informed. But when people are convinced to make decisions like this based on incomplete information, they are being fleeced, and can easily make the wrong decision for their situation.

[Kaneki05]

Smh you really think some 3 year old toddler is reading this think oh yes i must do this. Get over yourself, no one here isn't self aware or that dumb to not make there own choice on this and look it up.
You just complaining about someone who likes drinking something cause it's nice and for them it has no bad side effects even tho there lactose interlorant proving that does work for some people.

You gonna complain when someone decides to eat chocolate cause it's a drug. Or complain when someone drinks an energy drink.
You gonna complain when someone eats mc donalds.
Because you think people who talk about it in a good light influces 3 year old toddlers on Gag or 84 year old women in a care home. Who cannot think for themselves.

[Walrus_au]

@Kaneki05
no, some ignorant mother is going to feed it too their 3 year old brainwave.
Really can't think your way out of a wet paper bag can you?

[Kaneki05]

Well duh of course they are. Humans are dumb. But do you think one person saying it is bad would stop that lmao. You really don't get if a person dumb there is nothing that can be done.

[Walrus_au]

@Kaneki05 you don't grasp the difference between dumb and uninformed or missinformed.

And to assume that those spreading missinformation have no responsibility for its damage is just plain anti-social.

[Kaneki05]

It's not misinformed that it don't effect her lactose and tastes nice lmao

[Walrus_au]

@Kaneki05 Congratulations on either not reading the OP or being just as blind to reality.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thanks for sharing your MyTake with us. Very beautiful said I like Whole Milk
but never tried Raw Milk. Now I used to have some friends of the family might
of drank Raw Milk not quite sure but I will consider giving this a try I do like
Whole Milk but like you mentioned the Raw Milk is amazing and Creamy well
most definitely look into this. Thanks a Million :) Best Wishes :)

[TheLittleInnocent]

I'm not lactose intolerant but I dislike milk with a passion... i can't take a sip of milk with out gagging, actually throwing up or a stomach ache (๑•́ω•̀) do you think I'd like it if i tried? I'm scared about trying it at all tbh, doesn't it come with extremely harmful bacteria as well?

[sparke328]

Maybe not... since this tastes more fresh per se, it might still make you feel uneasy. I don't want you to take a risk you don't wanna take.

[darkcloud1945]

Hell yeah it is good so is fresh goat milk, but watch out if some bad milk has slipped through it does happen every blue moon. Not nice things happen. Because of that there is no fresh cheese allowed up until recently in The U. S. A. raw milk cheese aged over 60 days or 90 day is allowed. In Europe raw milk cheese has been around since before Christ!

[meesegoMoo]

As a kid my family used to bootleg raw milk from a dairy farmer we knew. He was under some contract with highland at the time, but would sneak out the raw stuff to sell illegally.

[Apple1996]

This is interesting but I'm a vegan so gonna have to stick with drinking my non dairy milk. It's much more delicious anyways

[coffeewithcream]

Pasteurization of milk does not effect it's nutritional value.

Non-pasteurized milk can cause flu-like symptoms resulting in long-term chronic illness and even death from bacteria pasteurized milk doesn't have.

While it's great you love unpasteurized milk, promoting same is dangerous. That means your father and yourself.

[helva]

My grandparents are retired farmers and they still have some cows as pets. I love to drink that fresh milk.

[likelyOK]

I would love to try it I know I like the mixed milk because it contains the cream as well, so goood.

[humanearth]

I'm a Dairy Farmer, I milk goats and used to milk cows. I have always have my milk uncooked.

[FictionalCharacter]

Haha, at first I thought you owned a dairy cow. That I was about to ask what you feed it for delicious milk? 😅

[FictionalCharacter]

Also, it’s good it helped you.

Which reminds me 🤔... I haven’t had organic milk in 2 years that I gained weight. Hmm...

[Sleevey]

I just wanted to say that the first thing I though when I read the tittle for raw milk. I prefer it cooked , maybe fried 😃

[CubsterShura]

@Battooot if you can find any raw milk source that goes through all that testing...

[Shamalien]

cow milk is for baby cows, im addicted to dairy but im trying to cut down, its not fair that we steal the milk meant for their young and nothing this immoral leads to health, thats not how the world operates

[jimmy2]

You so right on this. Have you ever taken fresh milk and make butter. Put that on a hot rolll... hummm

[likelyOK]

That sounds amazing

[OddBeMe]

Milk isn’t good for you. It’s basically fat you’re digesting. I say that as I’m eating cereal by the way :)

[sparke328]

lol. yeah it is fattening but it's still good.

[OddBeMe]

Right. Making it apart of the food pyramid and the kid that it strengthens bones prob caused a lot of obesity.

[likelyOK]

Obesity is not caused by milk consumption it's caused by an overall diet issue, eating crappy processed sugars and saturated fats. Most of them eat way too much. Coupled with a lack of exercise or activity it can be tragic.