Family Farm Ordered to Destroy 50,000 Pounds of Cheese

[looknlearn]

Just curious as to how many of you have had the privilege of milking the cow and having Raw Milk on a daily basis?

It's actually best after a day sitting in the refrigerator and just pouring off the top of the jug! Let the cats and dog have the rest:thumbsup::thumbsup:

When you do that it is too rich. We used to have a Dexter and that milk was great even if you mixed the cream in. Wish I could have that milk again.:licking:

 

[IH3444]

And all tobacco products are still legal. You want to talk about health hazards. :confused2:

 

[mad_planter]

Its funny.... I thought the governments job was to serve the will of the people. If there is a significant portion of the population that wants to buy locally produced products made with raw milk, and it obviously only effects the buyers of the product not everybody, you would think the government would help find a way to allow them to do it. Instead they actively throw up roadblocks to prevent it.

Its also interesting when it comes to "food safety". I would rather buy from a farmer that consumes his own product than from a corporation that employs minimum wage labor that doesn't give a darn or imports from Mexico with dubious food safety laws.

Former farmer's son who grew up on raw milk and self-butchered meat (I guess I should have died from all the risk!!!)

 

[beppington]

I thought the governments job was to serve the will of the people.

Supposed to be, yes - But, just last night I saw on TV Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, say Obama's doing what's "right", rather than what's popular. So, Stalin, I mean Obama, has decided he knows better than The People.

 

[CinderSchnauzer]

Just curious as to how many of you have had the privilege of milking the cow and having Raw Milk on a daily basis?

It's actually best after a day sitting in the refrigerator and just pouring off the top of the jug! Let the cats and dog have the rest:thumbsup::thumbsup:

By my recollection we had electricity in the barn - to run the milking machines - before we had it in the main house. After the machine did its job, Dad and Granpa did the finish milking and would set the pails in the center aisle of the barn before taking them for processing and to the cans for transport to the cheese factory.

The cats, the dog and myself would often do a quality check sample straight from those pails. Obviously we all drank the milk unpasteurized then.

One of my greatest joys was stopping at the cheese factory every day around 4:00 - watching them cut, salt, mix the curd in the huge SS vats. For me there is no better treat than cheddar curd that is 100% fresh - still room temp & taken direct from the vat.:licking:

 

[Duffster]

Just curious as to how many of you have had the privilege of milking the cows and having Raw Milk on a daily basis?

I did. :licking:

 

[mmurphy]

Just curious as to how many of you have had the privilege of milking the cow and having Raw Milk on a daily basis?

It's actually best after a day sitting in the refrigerator and just pouring off the top of the jug! Let the cats and dog have the rest:thumbsup::thumbsup:

I'm waiting for pasturised raw cherries!

I was raised on a dairy farm in Minnesota. I did not know you was not to drink milk from the bulk tank back then. We are so careful about everything we do in the states now days, that we are dying from obesity.

I do agree we need to have a network in place to make sure the consumer is safe. Far as goes about the cheese, I did not read on it and have no idea if there is a legitimate reason for dumping. Could they not at least sell it for animal food? China puts any thing in the pet food we get to make a filler.

 

[Egon]

I do agree we need to have a network in place to make sure the consumer is safe.

I'd also agree with this statement; but should not some reality be applied to the process.

Not everyone had Dexter Cattle!

 

[charlz]

I think that link, and the link it has to the 'full story' are just a bit slanted. The FDA posting (Morningland Dairy Conducting Nationwide Voluntary Recall of All Cheese Labeled as Morningland Dairy & Ozark Hills Farm Because of Possible Health Risk) on it sounds like a routine recall. Some of their cheese was tested and found to

"contain Listeria monocytogenes and also has the potential to be contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus."


From Wikipedia:

"Listeria monocytogenes is a facultative anaerobe, intracellular bacterium that is the causative agent of Listeriosis. It is one of the most virulent foodborne pathogens with 20 to 30 percent of clinical infections resulting in death[1]. Responsible for approximately 2,500 illnesses and 500 deaths in the United States (U.S.) annually, Listeriosis is the leading cause of death among foodborne bacterial pathogens with fatality rates exceeding even Salmonella and Clostridium botulinum. [2]"


Sounds like nasty stuff. So the place it was made was ordered to recall and destroy their product. I don't see much unusual about that.

Personally I see a BIG difference between

1)buying some local raw milk from a person you may know and facilities you may inspect when picking up the product (I grew up getting raw milk from a local dairy farmer)

2)buying 'raw' cheese in CA that was made in MO

You have to have some sort of trust... either in the source or in the process by which it came to you.

 

[mmurphy]

I'd also agree with this statement; but should not some reality be applied to the process.

Not everyone had Dexter Cattle!

LOL!!!! I have to ask what is reality anymore?? I guess we need to ask law makers, cause I guess they know what is just right for us all!