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Example Of Protective Qualities Of Raw Milk, Even When It Is Dirty
In the course of my research, I visited dozens of dairies. As you know from cleaning
your car, spraying the surface with a hose is ineffective. The surface must be wiped.
The same is true of a cow teat. This was demonstrated to me quite dramatically at a
dairy with milk destined to be sold raw. The hose was taken and the teats sprayed in the
usual manner. A white towel from the stack was used to wipe one of the four teats.
Plenty of mud and manure could be seen on the towel. If those teats aren't cleaned
properly, and they often were not in those other dairies, that mud and manure went in
milk. They pasteurized it, but how many people want feces, mud, and urine in their milk
even though it is pasteurized heated?
Jack Mathis, President of Atlanta's Mathis Dairy, was invited to inspect the dairy
at the Atlanta City Prison Farm and make suggestions for modernization. He said, “It
looked more like an outhouse than a milking parlor.” Manure on the cow's hindquarters
was running over the teats, the milking apparatus, and into the milk. From the milking
machine, the milk ran into an open ten-gallon can by hose. “You couldn't see the top of
the can for the flies,” Mathis said. “It was like a bee hive with flies walking in and out of
the can.”
Mr. Mathis assumed that the milk was for the prison farm pigs, but it wasn't. It went
directly to a cooler in the prison dining hall, complete with cow and fly manure and fly
carcasses. It was simply strained through the cooler and then drunk by the prisoners.
No case of pathogenic contamination occurred that was caused by the raw milk in
10 years. If raw milk is such a danger, why didn’t any one get sick?
The British journal The Lancet reported, “Resistance to tuberculosis increased
in children fed raw milk instead of pasteurized, to the point that in five years only one
case of pulmonary TB had developed, whereas in the previous five years, when children
had been given pasteurized milk, 14 cases of pulmonary TB had developed.” 48[48]
Raw milk also contains an anti-viral agent. In 1997, British studies have shown
that some mysterious substance in the aqueous portion of the raw milk, below the
cream layer, works against viral infections.49[49] Formula and boiled milk do not
contain this virus-fighting agent.
Raw milk as a vermifuge: James A. Tobey, Doctor of Public Health, Chief
of Health Services
for the Borden Company, wrote about the successful use
48[48] The Lancet, p. 1142, May 8, 1937
49[49] Matthews, et al, The Lancet, December 25,1976, pp. 1387.
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