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Drinking Milk Fresh From the Cow
When milk was actually healthy
I gave my cat Opal a treat today — a tablespoon of farm fresh heavy cream. I use this in the evening to make my night time drink which is a tea made from freshly grated ginger, fresh turmeric, cinnamon, a bit of black pepper (so your body can absorb the nutrients from the turmeric), a little bit of raw local honey, and a good dollop of the cream, all well mixed together.
I have cancer, and a lot of those ingredients help my body fight the disease.
However, the cream itself is only low temperature pasturized, which would freak out a lot of people.
They would also warn me that giving cats milk will give them digestive issues. This is true if you give your cat milk from the supermarket. But not all milk is the same.
Once upon a time, many Americans drank raw milk, as did people around the world, at least if they owned their own cows and kept them clean. In some parts of the world, people continue to drink raw or slightly heated milk.
America (and most of the world) used to have a lot of farmers, because, once upon a time, most people grew a lot of their own food. This was true as late as the 1970s. My ex, who grew up in the late ’50s and 1960s told me about visiting his grandfather’s farm as a boy and watching the…
