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Pasteurize. Seriously. Just do it.
Unpasteurized cheese leading to increased cases of TB in California.
As a government regulatory food scientist, I generally have to be careful about what I say to the public. However, I feel that I can safely assert that the consumption of unpasteurized dairy products may lead to an increased risk of contracting potentially severe foodborne illness.
Pasteurize your dairy products. It was invented for a reason. That is all.
As a government regulatory food scientist, I generally have to be careful about what I say to the public. However, I feel that I can safely assert that the consumption of unpasteurized dairy products may lead to an increased risk of contracting potentially severe foodborne illness.
Pasteurize your dairy products. It was invented for a reason. That is all.
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If your worried about a unpasteurized product ask for a tour of the place it is made. The few places that still don't pasteurize it that I have been too have been happy to give me a tour and show me where they prepare it.
As for milk I am hit or miss. When I used to drink anything other than skim I didn't really mind but now going back it tastes like I am drinking a lot of sugar.
Again, it's your choice. Just make sure you're actually informed and educated.
There are people that sell totally unpasteurized cider. That stuff's bad news.
edit: whoops, guess this includes cheese, too. Oh well.
Reason why I don't drink or eat any dairy products.
We, as humans, have two nipples. Cows have, what... 6? I'm pretty sure that 6 milk-excreting nipples are more efficient for an industry. Milk is generally very similar between mammals, so trying cow's milk in an attempt to find a new, healthy beverage isn't that large a risk. Of course, I don't know if the original people who tried cow's milk knew that, so perhaps they were just a bit tipsy off of the fermented grapes, shall we say..
Edit:Throwback to an old TotD:
"Your body needs water, SO DRINK THAT SHIT!"
On that path, I cannot understand people that drink milk and whine that it tastes bad after pasteurization. It's not good for you! And if it tastes bad why the hell do you keep drinking it!? Drink something that's healthy for you, something that your body needs in large quantities, say, water. If you want taste, put it in, sure, some tastes are horribly sweet, but you can easily digest that sugar and get energy out of it.
Milk is not "bad" for you. It's an excellent source of both protein and calcium, and skim milk is a great source of protein where one doesn't want fat to muck things up. Most of the enzymes destroyed by pasteurization aren't really necessary, and since they've bovine enzymes anyhow, you get a vastly lower rate of utilization out of them.
Yogurt is very healthful, particular if you eat lowfat or fat-free yogurt. Yogurt can be a probiotic, helping with digestion. Other dairy products, particularly aged cheeses, are naturally very very low in lactose (since the bacteria used to make it digest the lactose), so those shouldn't be a problem.
The whole "cow's milk is for cows, so don't drink it" argument is really a bit crap. The domestication of cattle was a huge advance in human agriculture. We find all kinds of uses for animal products; milk happens to be one of those products.
If you'd like to try setting up some kind of human milking operation, be my guest. The primary reason for milk consumption as an infant is to pass along immunity, and to provide nourishment. Once the immunity thing is no longer needed, nourishment is the only reason, and, well, cow's milk can provide the nourishment.
Edit:Throwback to an old TotD:
"Your body needs water, SO DRINK THAT SHIT!"
On that path, I cannot understand people that drink milk and whine that it tastes bad after pasteurization. It's not good for you! And if it tastes bad why the hell do you keep drinking it!? Drink something that's healthy for you, something that your body needs in large quantities, say, water. If you want taste, put it in, sure, some tastes are horribly sweet, but you can easily digest that sugar and get energy out of it.The throwback doesn't work, since milk is mostly water, plus some stuff that's mostly nutritional for us. The stuff that's not strictly "good for us," most of us have developed a tolerance to.
I personally agree with you that people who whine about milk tasting bad after pasteurization are foolish, just for different reasons. I say that they should take what they've got, and be stupid and take the risk if they like.
-EDIT- Sorry about the blockquote issues. I should have previewed my post before posting it, and I can't seem to fix it...
Their are already Milk Banks for women to donate extra mommy milk. So it can be given to infants at homes and hospitals. I guess they also use something called the Holder Method of Pasteurization. They say it kills bacteria but keeps the majority of the beneficial components. I've got no idea how it works. The whole operation seems to work a lot like blood banks.
EDIT: Pasturization is a GOOD thing. I worked on a dairy farm in high-school for a while. Let me tell you - unpasturized milk is not worth any percieved taste difference. (Then again, I use skim milk or soy milk, so fattier/creamier milk is not my taste.)