Goat Milk at Trader Joe's
I'd drink it if it was pasteurized. I just don't want milk that comes from one of those "factory farms" where the animals are confined to tiny stalls and fed crap and given hormones and antibiotics and stand in lots of their own waste and so forth. I want milk from a goat or cow (or even sheep) that was treated humanely. I want milk from an animal that was only given antibiotics if it was ill (and I don't want its mil****il it has recovered). I want milk from an animal that ate grass. I want milk from an animal that had lots of space to walk around and had access to the outdoors.
It seems like my best chance of getting that is to buy raw milk from a small farm but I don't feel strongly about wanting unpasteurized milk. I don't believe pasteurization is necessary (well, it IS necessary if you're buying milk from a factory farm where most of the cows are sick and they stand in their own poop all the time, but it's not necessary if you get it from a healthy cow kept in sanitary conditions) and I think it probably does kill some of the "good" bacteria in the milk and destroy some enzymes, but I don't really care much if my milk is pasteurized or not.
By the way, from what I've read, many lactose intolerant people can drink raw milk. It seems the pasteurization destroys one of the enzymes that helps you digest lactose.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Someone almost convinced me the other day that I should just get my own goat and keep it in my backyard. I almost got Mike on board, too, because he thought then it would eat all the grass and he wouldn't have to mow. But then I learned that you really should not have just one goat because they are herd animals. You need to get at least two. I guess a very small herd is OK but if you have one goat, it will be lonely and since it has no one to play with, it will get into things. Well, I am not getting a herd of goats just so I can have milk.
Although, apparently if I did, I could sell my excess milk and make lots of money. Until the government tracked me down. I bet I'd had a hard time getting raw goat milk in prison, huh?
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
It says on their website that their milk can be freezed- I wonder if I can figure out a way to ship you some. Stay tuned LOL
I know, if I started with a couple goats, then I'd decide I needed a couple chickens....
I've done that with pets. You decide you want one cat, then someone finds a stray that really needs a home, then another stray just shows up at the door and won't leave... It's hard to imagine a stray goat or chicken would show up, but I bet I'd be living on a farm before I knew what hit me. And I have a very small yard. And I can hardly afford the vet bills for my three cats (and three cats is a significant reduction in the number of animals in my house, by the way).
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
I have two dogs, which is also a huge reduction of pets for myself too. I just love animals way too much. I went to the mall on Sunday and they had one of those puppy shops- it made me sad. I wanted to take them all home just so they could run around free and not be caged like they all were.
I always end up taking in strays. One of my cats did come from a shelter. The other two just showed up one day. Of course I felt sorry for them and ended up letting them stay. Most of the time when a stray finds me, I try to find a home for it. It's hard to find homes for cats, though.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
