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Still, as he sweated out the hearing Wednesday, Lynch speculated
that if cow-shares were banned, he might take the matter to court
rather than cave in and begin pasteurizing his milk.
Lynch said he has been producing raw milk for 30 years and
started selling cow- shares in 1995. Now, nearly 350 families have
ponied up $25 to buy a part of one of his 12 milking cows, and pay
a $25 boarding fee every month.
For that, they are entitled to one gallon per week of product from
their property.
Another hundred families are on a waiting list, he said.
As far as he knows, no one - a point state health officials concede -
has ever gotten sick from his raw milk.
According to those who testified at Wednesday's public hearing and
to those who provide information to the half-dozen or so websites
devoted to raw-milk advocacy, the fuss is about better health.
"I think it's a healthier product," said Denise Bohemier, who has a
21 goats on her Rancho del Cielo near Red Mesa in southwestern
Colorado and is trying to get a goat-sharing operation up and
running.
"All the good bacteria that people need, when we pasteurize it, we
kill it," said Bohemier, who was a biochemist before she chucked
that to pursue full-time organic farming.
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