Raw Milk

[Hobbes]

Why are retail sales of raw milk illegal in Oklahoma but legal in the state of Kalifornia?

In Oklahoma you have to drive to a farm where you can buy your raw milk.
This seems a little bit like the old days before liquor by the drink in Oklahoma.

Anybody here buy raw milk from a dairy farm, and what do you think about it?
What speakeasy, err.. I mean dairy farm, do you buy your milk from?

The cheese thread got me to thinking about this cause I love both cheese and milk.

 

[ignerntbend]

The cream on fresh milk will rise to the top. It's the origin of a common expression.
As much as I hate to admit it, I prefer homoginized milk. Milk bought in a plastic container at the grocery store.
Lord help me, I just said that on the internet.

 

[Hobbes]

Yeah, I remember that from when I was a kid on my grandparents farm.

Advocates of raw milk claim that it cures all kinds of maladies, especially in children.
Allergies, skin problems, you name it.. It cures it.

Here is one of the places I was reading about it.
http://www.naturalnews.com/035716_raw_milk_legal_directory.html

I suppose it could still be homogenized and still be "raw" milk as long as it wasn't pasteurized.

It just seems kind of communistic to not leave it up to the consumer to decide like they do in Commiefornia.

 

[Hobbes]

Braums milk is the best that has been tainted by pasteurization but still... It comes in a plastic jug.

We used to be able to buy milk in glass bottles back in the old days before this country slipped into the clutches of socialism.

 

[Perplexed]

Dang, the comments here just jogged a memory from when I was knee high to a grasshopper - the insulated milk box on the back stoop! We'd have a couple bottles of milk, and sometimes butter, delivered to that box each week. Didn't last long into my kiddyhood, though.

 

[tntrex]

Don't drink the raw cause the CdC has a pasturized milk mustache and a pocket full of cash.

 

[Blinocac200sx]

It boils down to this, just because we're conservative, doesn't mean we're not statist. Right wing, left wing, either way, they all love regulation.

 

[RickN]

About half the states allow the sale of raw milk in one form or another, but many do not because of the health risk involved. Supposedly about 200 people get sick every year from drinking raw milk. Not a huge number until you realize the vast majority of people do not drink raw milk.

Only 10 states allow the sales like CA does and Oklahoma is one of 15 that allow farm sales. In all the rest you either have to buy part ownership of the cow or it is not available at all. Oklahoma is not doing so bad after all.

 

[AKguy1985]

Braums milk is the bomb.

 

[tntrex]

the big red state with their .gov control