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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
People who sell raw milk don't feed the Cows any Hormones or extra chemicals in their feed. Other than If you drink it It helps with allergies and asthma , just like if you eat any other locally produced food.
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Why raw vs organic though? I totally understand the chemicals and hormones point of view (although it could simply be raw milk from a regular crap fed cow) but the possible health risk doesn't outweigh the very very minor unconfirmed health benefits to me. I haven't had raw milk in a while so cant comment on the flavour. Raw milk cheese does kick ass though, I wish we had Quebec's laws regarding that.
I might be wrong here but isn't the proposed allergy and asthma benefits unconfirmed? I haven't read into this subject in a while and will just google it after typing this, but it was my understanding before that some scientific review figured that the test wasn't a good one since it was performed only on farm kids who had a built up tolerance to allergies and whatnot anyway. They said it had nothing to do with the milk, or at least was proved that it did.
Not 100% against raw milk it, I just still haven't read anything that proves to me it really is better so I'll stick with what's proven.
Edit: strombad cleared up the allergy part and saved me from having to google it myself. Thanks!