FREDERICK, Md. — The selling of raw unpasteurized milk in Maryland was again a hot topic along with more discussion on milk hauling legislation, at the meeting of the Maryland Dairy Industry Advisory Council on Sept. 23, in Frederick. Md., at the County Health Department.
The main topic of the day — the sale of raw milk in Maryland, was introduced by Colby Ferguson, representing Maryland Farm Bureau — and the subject brought about a number of comments.
Ferguson noted that Farm Bureau supports the current law banning the sale of raw milk in the state.
Ferguson said he did not see Farm Bureau changing its position in the near future.
“There is no way at this time, to guarantee or to regulate, to keep people from getting sick, even with pasteurization.”
“We’ve been doing it (pasteurizing milk) for more than 50 years,” Jody Vona, a milk processor noted, “and dairy farms have made a huge contribution in the quality of our milk, but it isn’t possible to inspect each individual cow.”
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5 comments:
You've got to be kidding here. Raw milk is just the same as breastfeeding as long as it is kept refrigerated and used up on time.
The tit police need something to do, I guess.
love raw milk. it's so much healthier than this crap that's on the shelves. hormones and other junk in the processed milk. so sad to see this.
How do all those calves survive drinking raw milk?
Let us make our own decisions! Some of us WANT to drink raw milk!
This is NOT about public service (protecting people from bacteria laden milk). It's about the stranglehold the middlemen/distributors (milk factories/byproducts sellers) exert on the dairy farmers who actually do the work via their lobbies in Washington D.C. In the 1950's those same middlemen forced dairy farmers to put in stainless steel milk lines from each milking stanchion pumped to stainless steel bulk holding tanks. No more single hand held milking containers used on each individual cow. Big agri business saw dollars and farmers were forced to comply/spend their hard earned money or go out of business. It was the livelihood of many farmers here on delmarva back then. A hard, never ending job. Up before light to get each shift (usually a dozen cows per shift/2-4 shifts per milking time) (24-48+ cows had to be milked twice a day on many local dairy farms just to survive back then) in the barn to feed and milk and then drive that milk in cans to the milk station around 7 or 8am. Work all day on crops, filling silos, hay in haylofts, plowing, discing fields, getting firewood, cutting timber for extra cash, Then get those same cattle back in the barn for the evening and do it all over again, 7 days a week, year after year for decades. No help, no break and then the middle men get laws passed to dictate/control. That's your real politically controlled milk production. People who don't do the work but control the prices they sell for and the prices they pay for the product. They do NOT want anyone (the little guy/the whole milk seller) getting a start because the rest would follow if they saw an opening, a way to escape the dictates of their livelihood. It's mega dairy farming today, those that own the cattle, the farms etc. do not do the work, they have employees. Those people are in bed with the middle men.That's the real story, not the b.s. media serves up to the public about Mr. Bad Whole Milk provider.
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