Raw Milk at the Crossroads, Again

Few of us have been born when the forces for milk pasteurization launched the primary main assault on Nature’s good meals. In 1945, {a magazine} known as “Coronet” printed an article, “Uncooked Milk Can Kill You,” blaming uncooked milk for an outbreak of brucellosis in a city known as Crossroads, U.S.A., killing one-third of the inhabitants. The “Reader’s Digest” picked up the story and ran it a 12 months later.

Only one downside with this piece of “reporting.” There was no city known as Crossroads and no outbreak of brucellosis. The entire story was a fabrication — in any other case referred to as a lie. And lies about uncooked milk have continued ever since.

Sadly, the fictional Crossroads story paved the way in which for legal guidelines in opposition to promoting uncooked milk, beginning with Michigan in 1948.

Here is one other instance of lies in opposition to uncooked milk (which I referenced in an earlier put up,¹ however it’s price repeating). In 2007, John F. Sheehan, BSc (Dy), JD, US Meals and Drug Administration, Heart for Meals Security and Utilized Vitamin (USFDA/CFSAN), Division of Dairy and Egg Security, ready a Powerpoint maligning uncooked milk; it was offered to the 2005 Nationwide Convention on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) by Cindy Leonard, MS.²

As proven within the desk under, all the fifteen experiences associating outbreaks of foodborne sickness with uncooked milk that Sheehan cites are significantly flawed. For instance, in two of the fifteen, the research authors offered no proof that anybody consumed uncooked milk merchandise and in considered one of them, the outbreak didn’t even exist. Not one of many research confirmed that pasteurization would have prevented the outbreak.

Quick ahead to the current and the ruckus about chook flu in dairy cows — extra lies, very intelligent lies, however lies however.

In a press launch dated March 25, 2024,³ the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA), Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) and Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC), in addition to state veterinary and public well being officers, introduced investigation of “an sickness amongst primarily older dairy cows in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico that’s inflicting decreased lactation, low urge for food, and different signs.”

The companies declare that samples of unpasteurized milk from sick cattle in Kansas and Texas have examined optimistic for “extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).” Officers blame the outbreak on contact with “wild migratory birds” and presumably from transmission between cattle. The press launch particularly warns in opposition to consumption of uncooked milk, a warning repeated in quite a few publications and Web postings.

Based on the press launch, nationwide laboratories have confirmed the presence of HPAI (Extremely Pathogenic Avian Influenza) via testing, however it doesn’t reveal the kind of check used to detect this so-called viral sickness.

Lie No. 1: Researchers Have Discovered HPAI Virus within the Milk of Sick Cows

Officers have NOT discovered any viruses within the milk or another secretions of the sick cows. The CDC has but to answer to repeated requests for proof of discovering the remoted HPAI virus in any fluid of any sick hen or different animal.⁴ Nor have well being and agriculture companies in Canada,⁵ Japan,⁶ the UK⁷ and Europe⁸ supplied any proof of an remoted avian influenza virus.

As for all of the research you’ll find in a PubMed search claiming “isolation” of a virus, not considered one of them exhibits the true isolation of a virus, any virus, from the fluids (phlegm, blood, urine, lung fluids, and so on) of any animal, chook or human.⁹

The reality is that “viruses” function the whipping boy for environmental toxins, and within the confinement animal system, there are many them — hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia from excrement, for instance.¹⁰ Then there are toxins within the feed, akin to arsenic added to hen feed, and mycotoxins, tropane and β-carboline alkaloids in soybean meal.¹¹

By blaming nonexistent viruses, agriculture officers can keep away from stepping on any massive trade toes nor add to the rising public disgust with the confinement animal system.

Means again in 2006, researchers Crowe and Englebrecht printed an article entitled, “Avian flu virus H5N1: No proof for existence, pathogenicity, or pandemic potential; non-‘H5N1’z causation omitted.”¹² Nothing has modified since then.

Here is your homework task: Contact USDA at Aphispress@usda.gov and ask them to offer proof of the isolation of the HPAI virus or any virus within the milk of the sick cattle.

Lie No. 2: Nationwide Laboratories Have Confirmed the Presence of HPAI By Testing

They do not say something concerning the form of check they used, however it virtually actually the PCR (polymerase chain response) check. The PCR check detects genetic materials from a pathogen or irregular cell pattern and permits researchers to make many copies of a small part of DNA or RNA. The check was not designed to find out or diagnose illness, it was designed to amplify or improve a sure piece of genetic materials.

Every “amplification” is a doubling of the fabric. In the event you amplify thirty occasions you’ll get a unfavourable; amplify 36 occasions or extra, and you’ll get a optimistic. At 60 amplifications, everybody will “check optimistic” for no matter little bit of genetic materials you consider may cause illness.¹³ If you wish to present that you’ve got a pandemic brewing, simply amplify, amplify, amplify. People, this isn’t a legitimate check, not good science by any stretch of the creativeness — particularly as there was no virus to start with.

What number of occasions did our well being officers amplify the samples they obtained from the milk of the sick cows? Remember to ask them while you e mail Aphispress@usda.gov for proof of the virus.

Lie No. 3: The ‘Virus’ Is Extremely Pathogenic

Based on the “Wall Road Journal,” one — only one — particular person working within the dairies obtained sick and examined optimistic for avian influenza after publicity to dairy cattle presumed to be contaminated with the H5N1 chook flu.¹⁴

The particular person reported eye redness, or conjunctivitis, as his solely symptom — a symptom that may be defined by publicity to any of the numerous airborne toxins in confinement dairies. (How are they treating the sickness? With vitamin A and natural eyedrops? No, the poor sod is getting remedy with a poisonous antiviral drug.)

Based on the CDC, the illness in people ranges from delicate infections, which embrace upper-respiratory and eye-related signs, to extreme pneumonia. If the “virus” is so extremely pathogenic, we would count on lots of employees working round these sick cows to finish up within the hospital … however we have heard of none to date.

Lie No. 4: You Can Get Avian Flu From Ingesting Uncooked Milk, however Pasteurized Milk Is Secure

Based on medical biologist Peg Coleman,¹⁵ “Latest danger communications from CDC, FDA, and USDA relating to transmission of extremely pathogenic avian influenza virus or HPAI (subtype H5N1) to people by way of uncooked milk embrace no supporting proof of viral transmission from uncooked milk to people within the peer-reviewed literature.

An intensive physique of scientific proof from the peer-reviewed literature … does not assist the idea by these US authorities companies that [nonexistent] HPAI transmits to people by way of milkborne or foodborne routes and causes illness. Nor does the scientific proof assist the advice that customers ought to keep away from uncooked milk and uncooked milk merchandise [emphasis in the original].”¹⁶

Coleman notes the suite of bioactive elements in uncooked milk, together with bovine milk, that destroy pathogens and strengthen the intestine wall. “Many of those bioactive elements of uncooked milk are … delicate to warmth and could also be absent, inactive, or current in decrease concentrations in pasteurized milks.

Cross-disciplinary proof demonstrates that uncooked milk from wholesome cows shouldn’t be inherently harmful, in keeping with the CDC proof of tendencies for 2005-2020 and proof of advantages and dangers. There isn’t any scientific proof that HPAI in uncooked milk causes human illness.”

And whereas USDA, FDA and CDC guarantee the general public that pasteurization will make milk protected, they observe that “Milk from contaminated animals is being diverted or destroyed,” implying that pasteurization alone doesn’t assure security. In any occasion, gross sales of business pasteurized milk proceed their relentless decline.

Luckily, uncooked milk drinkers are already skeptical of presidency pronouncements and are expert at seeing via lies. Each giant and small uncooked milk dairy farms report that gross sales are booming. The present chook flu fracas is simply one other Crossroads, U.S.A., a bunch of lies fostered by a dishonest dairy trade taking purpose on the competitors.

In regards to the Writer

Sally Fallon Morell is writer of the best-selling cookbook “Nourishing Traditions” and lots of different books on eating regimen and well being. She is the founding president of the Weston A. Worth Basis (westonaprice.org) and a founding father of A Marketing campaign for Actual Milk (realmilk.com). Go to her weblog at nourishingtraditions.com.