This incredible raw milk video below features Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures Dairy in California, one of the nation’s largest and most reputable raw milk producers. Organic Pastures’ raw milk is sold all over California on grocery store shelves.
I have had the privilege of having Mark in my home for dinner and he is one of the most inspiring (not to mention hilarious and fun) people I have ever met. Take a look at this video in which Mark explains the huge and critical difference between raw milk produced “clean and green” from healthy cows on pasture and the pus filled raw milk from unhealthy cows (with chronic mastitis .. that is where all the pus comes from, by the way) living in mud and manure – this is the raw milk headed for the pasteurization plants and the stuff the FDA would have you believe is safe to drink instead of the clean and green raw milk.
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The scary thing is that the cows in this video living outside in the mud and manure have it good compared to most other large scale dairies that send their milk to be pasteurized .. most of those cows live in confinement their entire lives on concrete floors and live only about a year and a half or so before dying of exhaustion (a healthy cow on green pasture should live about 15 years).
great video! I have seen too many confinement dairies here in Idaho…they stink! Literally. Right now I have access to organic, LOCAL (as in a few miles away)Raw Milk. I am loving it!
-Lisa
Wow, Lisa! You are one lucky gal! Count your blessings, girlfriend!
That's one thing I can't get over when we moved here to Tasmania – there are cows everywhere! It is so nice to go for a drive a see pasture after pasture of cows. Quite different from in North America.
Cows happily grazing on pasture is such a calming, peaceful sight, I agree. Such a contrast to the cow concentration camps featured in this video!
Would you say that raw milk from a cow that eats about 85% grass would be a safe raw milk to drink? The cows also have access to soybeans that are grown on the farm (no GMO’s) and silage. I have just moved to a new area and am trying to find a good place to get milk. I have contacted my WAPF leader and she lives over an hour from me, but said someone else in this WAP group gets milk from this source I described above.
Soy spikes estrogen so I personally would steer clear.
I used to drink this brand of milk, but stopped because I didn’t feel well on it at all. A knowledgeable friend who drinks raw milk told me she thinks it is flash pasteurized because her daughter also can only drink raw milk, and not this one. Hmmm. Could this also be like raw juice bars?
I appreciate the raw milk dairies, but I have a serious question, why is the milk white? I have goats, who on hay, give whitish milk, but when on live greens give light yellow milk. I also had a cow that ate live greens and gave YELLOW milk. Where is the yellow? It’s not only beta carotene but also vitamin K2 that causes the milk (and body fat, having butchered greens fed rabbits and chickens) to turn so yellow, (and egg yolks to be orange). I can see the pasteurized milk being white (fed silage with no green hay or live greens) but the pasture cattle should have some color to their milk.