We have been drinking only raw milk for 11+ years. I've bought from stores, co-ops, neighbors and friends. Now I hand-milk daily for our family. Milk pasteurization started when they pulled cows into feedlots and started feeding them grain to increase milk production. Because the cow's rumen wasn't developed to digest grain, the cows were sick and thus the milk was sick and making people sick. Instead of getting to the root of the problem and putting cows back on pasture, where they belong, they killed the milk with pasteurization, making it a dead and inflammatory product. Raw milk is extremely healthy. It is a live food, teeming with beneficial bacteria. It also never spoils! It will go sour, but is still edible and usable - use for soaking grains, oats, baking, french toast, sour cream, cultured butter, etc. etc. etc.
Of course, many states have made raw milk illegal to protect Big Ag interests. Many of those are the same states where home births are illegal. .... perhaps the gross governmental encroachments go hand-in-hand. I have friends and family that get around these ridiculous laws by buying raw milk "for pet consumption only" or even working in groups to cross state lines and get healthy milk for their families "illegally".
In Japan, even in the countryside, if you don't own a farm, you can't drink raw milk. When you go to a ranch for sightseeing, you may be able to drink it, and it tastes better raw.
Fortunately, corporate interests have not advanced as far in this backwater. But they try! Childhood vaccines supposedly became mandatory in the last decade, but enforcement is lax.
When you write "undulating fever" I think you meant undulant fever or brucellosis, a very nasty disease. On our ranch we raise beef cattle. Each calf is required by law to be inoculated against the disease and herds certified to be brucellosis-free annually. The same is true of dairy cattle and goats. Milk from inoculated dairy cattle should be safe to drink raw, although I, personally, would not do so because raw milk may contain any number of other infectious agents besides brucellosis.
Regarding infantry training, you are correct, although I don't have much confidence in European NATO training, especially the British. In Basra, the Brits were utterly humiliated and had to be rescued by the Iraqi and American armies. In Afghanistan, British 40 Commando was similarly trapped and helpless until rescued by the US Marines' 3/7 who attacked the Taliban within 24 hours of arriving and crushed them in fierce fighting. Later, we trained 40co at 29 Palms and helped them become an effective fighting force.
Another factor in the effectiveness of infantry is the quality of the personnel. American soldiers come from ordinary middle class backgrounds, A and B high school students who after their contract go on to middle class lives. The British military is class ridden with a huge gap between the "posh" officers and the lower class enlisted. Even their accents are different. The only difference between American officers and enlisted is that the officers have been to college and became officers for the most part via ROTC or if mavericks OCS -- not the academies -- and the enlisted haven't yet; they'll do that on Uncle Sam's dime after they fulfill their contract.
Thanks for making very useful comments on both milk and military training.
I worked with the Marines in Danang. A very impressive bunch of warriors. The very kind who, unfortunately, appear to be quitting in droves or never joining in the first place on account of all of the woke nonsense going on now.
Mark noticed that I made quite a few small errors yesterday and today. This is true. I was blogging while watching small children. Not the kind of multitasking that comes off well. Apologies.
Big milk drinker here, all my life; still drink 20 oz. a day. Once visited an organic farm run by a friend of my girl's in Tasmania, Australia. Farmer gave us milk straight out of the cow. We watched him milking her. Heavenly! Ambrosia couldn't have tasted better!
I love milk too. I could do without a lot of other food choices, but not milk. I can drink a liter without hesitation. I think raw milk is healthy, and probably much healthier than regular milk, but as we have seen from the pandemic, everybody is afraid of mysterious microbes. The only reason we can't get raw milk is fear, fear driven by the media and government. But, after all, they know best, don't they? We're just ignorant pawns who should shut up and do as we are told.
I do enjoy raw milk and think the bacteria generally are healthy. The cows need to be checked for any illnesses, but given decent care of the animals the milk ought to be fine. I think the modern reason for pasteurization might be longer shelf life to suit the stores, but I'm not sure. It's really hard to buy given modern urban shopping styles.
I agree that military training simply takes time. There is a thinking process that needs development and combat is not a place to learn. So odd the Russians don't seem to care.
Raw milk has been made illegal in most US states. It appears that there is often a rush to judgement when it comes to medical issues, and most state governments opt for repressive measures so that they can't be blamed if there is any fault. It's the same with bureaucracies, which always choose NO when thinking might be appropriate. As one friend put it, if you have clean milk there is no problem, but most dairies have dirty milk so they must pasteurize.
"most dairies have dirty milk" - is that really true? Seems availability varies per state laws https://milk.procon.org/raw-milk-laws-state-by-state/. In my state we have two locations where you can buy raw milk, but seemingly only one certified farm near me. You can check your location https://getrawmilk.com/. Of course, it can't move across states likely because it's perishable. In checking I saw that frozen raw milk is stable but can't recall if I've ever seen frozen milk.
When I say dirty milk, I simply mean that the standards of those dairies producing regular milk are lower than those producing raw milk. There is no way of knowing whether one dairy is cleaner than another without doing rigorous tests, but I lived in California which barred Alta Dena dairy from producing raw milk. They had rigorous standards, but still they were shut down from selling raw milk because of government rulings. It was not from having anyone get sick from their raw milk.
I'd seriously consider that invite, I wouldn't put it past Vlad or his new Nazi general to lob a nuke onto Kyiv as a spiteful parting shot before they threw in the towel...
We have been drinking only raw milk for 11+ years. I've bought from stores, co-ops, neighbors and friends. Now I hand-milk daily for our family. Milk pasteurization started when they pulled cows into feedlots and started feeding them grain to increase milk production. Because the cow's rumen wasn't developed to digest grain, the cows were sick and thus the milk was sick and making people sick. Instead of getting to the root of the problem and putting cows back on pasture, where they belong, they killed the milk with pasteurization, making it a dead and inflammatory product. Raw milk is extremely healthy. It is a live food, teeming with beneficial bacteria. It also never spoils! It will go sour, but is still edible and usable - use for soaking grains, oats, baking, french toast, sour cream, cultured butter, etc. etc. etc.
Of course, many states have made raw milk illegal to protect Big Ag interests. Many of those are the same states where home births are illegal. .... perhaps the gross governmental encroachments go hand-in-hand. I have friends and family that get around these ridiculous laws by buying raw milk "for pet consumption only" or even working in groups to cross state lines and get healthy milk for their families "illegally".
In Japan, even in the countryside, if you don't own a farm, you can't drink raw milk. When you go to a ranch for sightseeing, you may be able to drink it, and it tastes better raw.
Fortunately, corporate interests have not advanced as far in this backwater. But they try! Childhood vaccines supposedly became mandatory in the last decade, but enforcement is lax.
When you write "undulating fever" I think you meant undulant fever or brucellosis, a very nasty disease. On our ranch we raise beef cattle. Each calf is required by law to be inoculated against the disease and herds certified to be brucellosis-free annually. The same is true of dairy cattle and goats. Milk from inoculated dairy cattle should be safe to drink raw, although I, personally, would not do so because raw milk may contain any number of other infectious agents besides brucellosis.
Regarding infantry training, you are correct, although I don't have much confidence in European NATO training, especially the British. In Basra, the Brits were utterly humiliated and had to be rescued by the Iraqi and American armies. In Afghanistan, British 40 Commando was similarly trapped and helpless until rescued by the US Marines' 3/7 who attacked the Taliban within 24 hours of arriving and crushed them in fierce fighting. Later, we trained 40co at 29 Palms and helped them become an effective fighting force.
Another factor in the effectiveness of infantry is the quality of the personnel. American soldiers come from ordinary middle class backgrounds, A and B high school students who after their contract go on to middle class lives. The British military is class ridden with a huge gap between the "posh" officers and the lower class enlisted. Even their accents are different. The only difference between American officers and enlisted is that the officers have been to college and became officers for the most part via ROTC or if mavericks OCS -- not the academies -- and the enlisted haven't yet; they'll do that on Uncle Sam's dime after they fulfill their contract.
Thanks for making very useful comments on both milk and military training.
I worked with the Marines in Danang. A very impressive bunch of warriors. The very kind who, unfortunately, appear to be quitting in droves or never joining in the first place on account of all of the woke nonsense going on now.
E. coli is the one that comes to mind, it will be in "dirty" milk.
Mark noticed that I made quite a few small errors yesterday and today. This is true. I was blogging while watching small children. Not the kind of multitasking that comes off well. Apologies.
I noticed that you mentioned taping the blog as you took care of the kids. It's okay, but then it requires good editing afterwards.
You ask me to adhere to an old school standard. I have nowhere to hide. I am old school.
Big milk drinker here, all my life; still drink 20 oz. a day. Once visited an organic farm run by a friend of my girl's in Tasmania, Australia. Farmer gave us milk straight out of the cow. We watched him milking her. Heavenly! Ambrosia couldn't have tasted better!
It was still warm ...
I love milk too. I could do without a lot of other food choices, but not milk. I can drink a liter without hesitation. I think raw milk is healthy, and probably much healthier than regular milk, but as we have seen from the pandemic, everybody is afraid of mysterious microbes. The only reason we can't get raw milk is fear, fear driven by the media and government. But, after all, they know best, don't they? We're just ignorant pawns who should shut up and do as we are told.
I do enjoy raw milk and think the bacteria generally are healthy. The cows need to be checked for any illnesses, but given decent care of the animals the milk ought to be fine. I think the modern reason for pasteurization might be longer shelf life to suit the stores, but I'm not sure. It's really hard to buy given modern urban shopping styles.
I agree that military training simply takes time. There is a thinking process that needs development and combat is not a place to learn. So odd the Russians don't seem to care.
Raw milk has been made illegal in most US states. It appears that there is often a rush to judgement when it comes to medical issues, and most state governments opt for repressive measures so that they can't be blamed if there is any fault. It's the same with bureaucracies, which always choose NO when thinking might be appropriate. As one friend put it, if you have clean milk there is no problem, but most dairies have dirty milk so they must pasteurize.
"most dairies have dirty milk" - is that really true? Seems availability varies per state laws https://milk.procon.org/raw-milk-laws-state-by-state/. In my state we have two locations where you can buy raw milk, but seemingly only one certified farm near me. You can check your location https://getrawmilk.com/. Of course, it can't move across states likely because it's perishable. In checking I saw that frozen raw milk is stable but can't recall if I've ever seen frozen milk.
When I say dirty milk, I simply mean that the standards of those dairies producing regular milk are lower than those producing raw milk. There is no way of knowing whether one dairy is cleaner than another without doing rigorous tests, but I lived in California which barred Alta Dena dairy from producing raw milk. They had rigorous standards, but still they were shut down from selling raw milk because of government rulings. It was not from having anyone get sick from their raw milk.
I'd seriously consider that invite, I wouldn't put it past Vlad or his new Nazi general to lob a nuke onto Kyiv as a spiteful parting shot before they threw in the towel...