Uncooked Milk on the Crossroads, Once more

Few of us have been born when the forces for milk pasteurization launched the primary main assault on Nature’s excellent meals. In 1945, {a magazine} referred to as “Coronet” printed an article, “Uncooked Milk Can Kill You,” blaming uncooked milk for an outbreak of brucellosis in a city referred to as Crossroads, U.S.A., killing one-third of the inhabitants. The “Reader’s Digest” picked up the story and ran it a yr later.

Only one downside with this piece of “reporting.” There was no city referred to as Crossroads and no outbreak of brucellosis. The entire story was a fabrication — in any other case referred to as a lie. And lies about uncooked milk have continued ever since.

Sadly, the fictional Crossroads story paved the way in which for legal guidelines towards promoting uncooked milk, beginning with Michigan in 1948.

Here is one other instance of lies towards uncooked milk (which I referenced in an earlier put up,¹ however it’s price repeating). In 2007, John F. Sheehan, BSc (Dy), JD, US Meals and Drug Administration, Heart for Meals Security and Utilized Diet (USFDA/CFSAN), Division of Dairy and Egg Security, ready a Powerpoint maligning uncooked milk; it was introduced to the 2005 Nationwide Convention on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) by Cindy Leonard, MS.²

As proven within the desk beneath, the entire fifteen stories associating outbreaks of foodborne sickness with uncooked milk that Sheehan cites are severely flawed. For instance, in two of the fifteen, the research authors introduced no proof that anybody consumed uncooked milk merchandise and in considered one of them, the outbreak didn’t even exist. Not one of many research confirmed that pasteurization would have prevented the outbreak.

Quick ahead to the current and the ruckus about fowl flu in dairy cows — extra lies, very intelligent lies, however lies nonetheless.

In a press launch dated March 25, 2024,³ the U.S. Division of Agriculture (USDA), Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) and Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC), in addition to state veterinary and public well being officers, introduced investigation of “an sickness amongst primarily older dairy cows in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico that’s inflicting decreased lactation, low urge for food, and different signs.”

The businesses declare that samples of unpasteurized milk from sick cattle in Kansas and Texas have examined optimistic for “extremely pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).” Officers blame the outbreak on contact with “wild migratory birds” and presumably from transmission between cattle. The press launch particularly warns towards consumption of uncooked milk, a warning repeated in quite a few publications and Web postings.

Based on the press launch, nationwide laboratories have confirmed the presence of HPAI (Extremely Pathogenic Avian Influenza) by testing, nevertheless it doesn’t reveal the kind of check used to detect this so-called viral sickness.

Lie No. 1: Researchers Have Discovered HPAI Virus within the Milk of Sick Cows

Officers have NOT discovered any viruses within the milk or every other secretions of the sick cows. The CDC has but to answer to repeated requests for proof of discovering the remoted HPAI virus in any fluid of any sick rooster or different animal.⁴ Nor have well being and agriculture businesses in Canada,⁵ Japan,⁶ the UK⁷ and Europe⁸ offered any proof of an remoted avian influenza virus.

As for all of the research yow will discover in a PubMed search claiming “isolation” of a virus, not considered one of them reveals the true isolation of a virus, any virus, from the fluids (phlegm, blood, urine, lung fluids, and many others) of any animal, fowl or human.⁹

The reality is that “viruses” function the whipping boy for environmental toxins, and within the confinement animal system, there are many them — hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia from excrement, for instance.¹⁰ Then there are toxins within the feed, comparable to arsenic added to rooster feed, and mycotoxins, tropane and β-carboline alkaloids in soybean meal.¹¹

By blaming nonexistent viruses, agriculture officers can keep away from stepping on any huge business toes nor add to the growing public disgust with the confinement animal system.

Method again in 2006, researchers Crowe and Englebrecht printed an article entitled, “Avian flu virus H5N1: No proof for existence, pathogenicity, or pandemic potential; non-‘H5N1’z causation omitted.”¹² Nothing has modified since then.

Here is your homework project: Contact USDA at [email protected] and ask them to offer proof of the isolation of the HPAI virus or any virus within the milk of the sick cattle.

Lie No. 2: Nationwide Laboratories Have Confirmed the Presence of HPAI Via Testing

They do not say something concerning the sort of check they used, nevertheless it virtually definitely the PCR (polymerase chain response) check. The PCR check detects genetic materials from a pathogen or irregular cell pattern and permits researchers to make many copies of a small part of DNA or RNA. The check was not designed to find out or diagnose illness, it was designed to amplify or improve a sure piece of genetic materials.

Every “amplification” is a doubling of the fabric. In the event you amplify thirty occasions you’re going to get a destructive; amplify 36 occasions or extra, and you’re going to get a optimistic. At 60 amplifications, everybody will “check optimistic” for no matter little bit of genetic materials you imagine could cause illness.¹³ If you wish to present that you’ve got a pandemic brewing, simply amplify, amplify, amplify. Of us, this isn’t a legitimate check, not good science by any stretch of the creativeness — particularly as there was no virus to start with.

What number of occasions did our well being officers amplify the samples they obtained from the milk of the sick cows? You’ll want to ask them while you e mail [email protected] for proof of the virus.

Lie No. 3: The ‘Virus’ Is Extremely Pathogenic

Based on the “Wall Avenue Journal,” one — only one — particular person working within the dairies bought sick and examined optimistic for avian influenza after publicity to dairy cattle presumed to be contaminated with the H5N1 fowl flu.¹⁴

The particular person reported eye redness, or conjunctivitis, as his solely symptom — a symptom that may be defined by publicity to any of the numerous airborne toxins in confinement dairies. (How are they treating the sickness? With vitamin A and natural eyedrops? No, the poor sod is getting remedy with a poisonous antiviral drug.)

Based on the CDC, the illness in people ranges from gentle infections, which embrace upper-respiratory and eye-related signs, to extreme pneumonia. If the “virus” is so extremely pathogenic, we would count on lots of staff working round these sick cows to finish up within the hospital … however we have heard of none to date.

Lie No. 4: You Can Get Avian Fly From Consuming Uncooked Milk, however Pasteurized Milk Is Secure

Based on medical biologist Peg Coleman,¹⁵ “Current danger communications from CDC, FDA, and USDA concerning transmission of extremely pathogenic avian influenza virus or HPAI (subtype H5N1) to people through uncooked milk embrace no supporting proof of viral transmission from uncooked milk to people within the peer-reviewed literature.

An in depth physique of scientific proof from the peer-reviewed literature … does not assist the belief by these US authorities businesses that [nonexistent] HPAI transmits to people through milkborne or foodborne routes and causes illness. Nor does the scientific proof assist the advice that buyers ought to keep away from uncooked milk and uncooked milk merchandise [emphasis in the original].”¹⁶

Coleman notes the suite of bioactive parts in uncooked milk, together with bovine milk, that destroy pathogens and strengthen the intestine wall. “Many of those bioactive parts of uncooked milk are … delicate to warmth and could also be absent, inactive, or current in decrease concentrations in pasteurized milks.

Cross-disciplinary proof demonstrates that uncooked milk from wholesome cows just isn’t inherently harmful, in step with the CDC proof of traits for 2005-2020 and proof of advantages and dangers. There isn’t a scientific proof that HPAI in uncooked milk causes human illness.”

And whereas USDA, FDA and CDC guarantee the general public that pasteurization will make milk protected, they observe that “Milk from contaminated animals is being diverted or destroyed,” implying that pasteurization alone doesn’t assure security. In any occasion, gross sales of business pasteurized milk proceed their relentless decline.

Fortuitously, uncooked milk drinkers are already skeptical of presidency pronouncements and are expert at seeing by lies. Each massive and small uncooked milk dairy farms report that gross sales are booming. The present fowl flu fracas is simply one other Crossroads, U.S.A., a bunch of lies fostered by a dishonest dairy business taking intention on the competitors.

In regards to the Writer

Sally Fallon Morell is writer of the best-selling cookbook “Nourishing Traditions” and plenty of different books on weight-reduction plan and well being. She is the founding president of the Weston A. Value Basis (westonaprice.org) and a founding father of A Marketing campaign for Actual Milk (realmilk.com). Go to her weblog at nourishingtraditions.com.