Comments on: The Best Milk I Have Ever Tasted http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/12/12/the-best-milk-i-have-ever-tasted/ Cook Local, Eat Global Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:26:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Greg http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/12/12/the-best-milk-i-have-ever-tasted/#comment-54071 Greg Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:57:41 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/12/12/the-best-milk-i-have-ever-tasted/#comment-54071 FYI
I’ve just discovered that Snowville does not exclusively bottle milk from Bill and Stacey’s farm (the farmers featured on the label of the carton). This year anyway, I hear from area farmers and milk haulers they were getting milk from another conventional farm in Gallia county. Also, I know for a fact that Bill and Stacey’s cows stand in mud up almost to their udders during winter and early spring because their pastures aren’t large enough and I can’t help wonder how the cows are soley pasture grazed when they don’t have enough green grass even in summer? I surely hope their labels aren’t implying that. I can understand if they are feeding them hay but I am beginning to wonder about how truthful their labeling is.

]]> By: Greg http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/12/12/the-best-milk-i-have-ever-tasted/#comment-53412 Greg Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:12:43 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/12/12/the-best-milk-i-have-ever-tasted/#comment-53412 Snowville milk is not organic and does not claim to be. They do use antibiotics (more than likely in a responsible manner) and non-organic grain as feed. They are grassfed meaning pastured and given hay but each cow is given a bucket of conventional grain feed every day during milking. There is some concern about the feed being conventional and the possibility of GMO soy or corn being included in that mix. I would sugest putting pressure on the local market through verbal feedback and suggestion to demand assurance of non-GMO feed for the cattle. GMO’s have been shown to have the capability to assimilate into the gut bacteria of animals and humans eating the modified foods; meaning, the modified genetic code can possibly be tranferred to bodily fluids of the cow like milk, and then onto your own gut bacteria.
Now, that is all not to say we don’t adore Snowville Creamery their product and their mission. The milk is the bomb! As consumers, it is our responsibility to vote with our dollars. Organic standards for dairy do need to be rethought but in the meantime, the organic certification model will be the market that pushes biotech foods out of existence. And, it is the vote done with your dollar that will cause it to happen.
Ohio Family Farms also uses low temperature pasturization like Snowville and is a better choice over Horizon, most assuredly, but it is still a toss up between them and Snowville in our household.

]]> By: Allen http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/12/12/the-best-milk-i-have-ever-tasted/#comment-53245 Allen Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:41:08 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/12/12/the-best-milk-i-have-ever-tasted/#comment-53245 Just wanted to say I am 2 weeks into a completely raw milk diet and loving every moment of it! For anyone outside of California you can order raw milk from Organic Pastures Dairy Co
http://www.organicpastures.com
They sell 1/2 gallons for $5.00 of mixed Jersey + Holstein organic raw milk. Shipping might seem to high, depending where you are , but the taste & the benefits might keep you coming back for more.
I’ve been drinking their milk for 3-4 years and talk about total health it gives. A must read is Ron Schmidts “Untold Story of Raw Milk”
445 pages of detail including humans who have lived on raw milk for 5-50+ years!
To Your Health!

]]> By: Barbara http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/12/12/the-best-milk-i-have-ever-tasted/#comment-48802 Barbara Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:16:20 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/12/12/the-best-milk-i-have-ever-tasted/#comment-48802 Phyllis–I agree with you–raw milk can make you sick.

However, so can pasteurized milk if it is contaminated at the processing plant post pasteurization.

Since I don’t trust large meat packers to be clean, or large fresh vegetable packers to be clean–as evidenced by recent meat recalls and recent contamination of fresh produce with e coli–I cannot help but be less than sanguine about trusting large milk processors, especially the ones who use milk from cows pumped up on antibiotics which are given, not just to cure an illness, but as a matter of course to prevent illness, and artificial hormones in order to stimulate unnaturally large milk supplies.

So, while I appreciate that raw milk has its dangers–which is why I am not as much of a wholehearted raw milk supporter as I could be–I don’t think that it should be banned as a matter of course.

]]> By: Phyllis Entis http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/12/12/the-best-milk-i-have-ever-tasted/#comment-48800 Phyllis Entis Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:54:59 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/12/12/the-best-milk-i-have-ever-tasted/#comment-48800 Raw milk can still make you sick. Washington State has just issued an alert about contaminated raw milk. See details at my blog: http://efoodalert.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-drinking-raw-milk-can-be-risky.html

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