Here's an interesting tale.
Throughout human history, people drank raw milk. They didn't choose to have it raw, it just was that way, so that's how they drank it. And all was well as the people enjoyed the many health benefits that this tasty beverage contained.
But then, a little over a hundred years ago, the industrial revolution hit our food supply. No longer were cows grazing in pastures and eating grass. Now they were forced into factories, fed cheap diets and left to walk around in their own manure. Consequently, diseases were rampant in the cows and these found their way into the milk. Millions of people died.
As a result, the dairy industry began to cook, or pasteurize, their milk. This eliminated many of the health benefits of dairy foods, but it also killed the harmful pathogens and so it was safer than the status quo. As an added benefit (and one that motivates the business side of all this) pasteurized milk has a longer shelf life.
But new problems arose as doctors slowly learned the effects of cooking dairy foods; lactose intolerance exists only as a reaction to pasteurized milk, many feel that allergies and asthma are related to it also, as well as countless digestive ailments.
So what to do? Well, the common sense thing is to do what should have been done 100 years ago, and that is to attack the root of the problem; clean up the dairy farms. If you don't have dirty cows, you don't have dirty raw milk and you don't need to cook it.
Sadly, instead of going to the root, people are just extending the branches of the problem and prescribing medication to cure all the health issues associated with pasteurized milk. All that is doing is exposing one hole to cover up another. It's only a matter of years (or months) before we learn that there are new diseases caused by the new medications.
But that's how our current corporate/business controlled system works. Whereas before, all you had was a raw dairy farm making money, now you have a dairy farm, a pasteurizer and a pharmaceutical company shoveling it in. And yet we, as a people, are only getting sicker.
Break the chain.
