The trucks here have to be gov’t certified reefer trucks and every milk parlour gets inspections as well as any flags cited by the driver of the trucks. It’s a totally different ballgame up here for dairy.

From what I understand, statistically speaking, roughly only 25-30% of the world can drink milk without some kind of physical discomfort after we develop past the need for ‘mothers milk’. It’s only within the last several hundred years that we’ve evolved to this end, as the papers say. And you’re right ... if we play…

And people in developing nations don’t get sick drinking the water. Growing up on a farm and being exposed to the bacteria from raw milk, probably made your immune system a lot more effective against it than for us pansies that have been avoiding exposure for our entire lives.

Being close to the source has nothing to do with how clean a milking room is or knowing when your milk has soured.

Well, on a dairy farm the milk HAS to be filtered before storage and is put into cold storage. Now every farm is different, but we ran a pretty clean milk parlour and the dairy portion was relatively small...60-100 head at any given time. Every 3 days (or sooner, but never more) a truck from the dairy board comes to…

Curious. Although I’m not American, I drank raw milk for the first 20 years of my life (until the family got rid of the dairy cattle). Never once did I or any of my family...ever...have to go to the hospital from bad milk. It’s a real funny thing, this common sense...if it tastes off it probably is.