Raw dairy is a living food! When we raise our animals according to God’s design, give them a healthy diet, maintain a clean milking environment, and minimize processing, raw dairy is a powerful superfood. Raw dairy foods contain beneficial bacteria, enzymes, and fat-soluable vitamins that benefit digestion, help our bodies utilize protein and calcium, and stimulate the immune system.
The dangers of pasteurization and homogenization- Pasteurization began in the 1920’s to overcome illnesses that resulted when people drank the raw milk of animals in poor health and raised in dirty conditions. Pasteurization destroys enzymes and beneficial bacteria, diminishes vitamin content, completely destroys Vitamin C, B12 and B6, denatures fragile milk proteins, promotes pathogens, and causes milk to putrify instead of sour naturally. Ultra-pasteurized milk is violently heated from cold to boiling within two seconds, rendering the milk completely unable to be cultured. Pasteurized milk is linked to allergies, asthma, tooth decay, colic in infants, obesity, osteoporosis, arthritis, heart disease, cancer and more. When we began drinking our raw milk, we were able to go off of our asthma medications and our son’s eczema disappeared.
Homogenization breaks down larger butterfat molecules to prevent them from rising to the top and is linked to heart disease.
Additives - Commercial dairy foods may contain additives such as powdered skim milk which can oxidize cholesterol that is harmful to arteries and contains neurotoxic amino acids such as MSG. Other additives may include yellow coloring in butter, engineered enzymes in cheeses or vegetable oils in imitation cheese.
Sourcing raw dairy - Choose unprocessed, raw dairy from goats or old-fashioned breed cows that eat rapidly growing green grass and stored dry hay. Animals should not be fed soy, cottonseed meal, or other commercial grains. Nor should they ever be fed bakery waste or chicken manure (or Skittles!!) as is often the case in commercial dairies! If the animals are not healthy, the milk that comes from them is not healthy. You are what you eat...and what you eat eats.