http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=C463AA940B9AEBA5D294F87FF0716579
After you see how many puss cells (same as the zit juice inside our pimples) they allow in pastuerized milk. Keep in mind the puss is a problem for dairy cows on a factory diet, not a healthy organic diet. Disgusting. I don’t think I can drink the cheap, crappy, factory non-organic milk anymore.
Do you have a PUStache? Mmmmmmm
Are you a vegan/vegetarian?
no. I just don’t like drinking zit juice.
But you think meat is “cleaner” than milk?
I only drink RAW milk. Pasteurization kills almost all nutrients AND creates cancer-causing carcinogens.
Natural = GOOD
“But you think meat is “cleaner” than milk?”
perhaps. does it have zit juice on it?
“I only drink RAW milk.”
raw milk is expensive. and somewhat harder to get for me. I want to try it, though. I agree…its alot healthier for you. all the probiotics are intact as well as the enzymes that help you digest the lactose.
raw milk is expensive.
Only b/c of gov regulations.
and somewhat harder to get for me.
If eating healthy LEGALLY is important to you, try moving to New Hampshire. There are NO regulations on health foods here. And the state is by far the healthiest and has the highest IQ.
Whole issue of government intervention in standard settings in general and dairy farming in particular, for the figures given that’s probably not even one thousandth of one percent of a glass of milk as pus. Not exactly as frightening as made out in the video (which conveniently only works with absolute numbers and not a percentage of the actual content, which even then is just the maximum allowable value and not an analysis of how much is actually in a mililiter of milk on average. Even just a comparison of somatic cell (which can actually be a rather wide variety of cells, not just pus) content per mililiter between cows raised in different environments would have been more informative. Certainly would have filled space better than wearing out the whole “pustache” thing.
Which isn’t to say I wouldn’t be keen on at least considering alternatives there. I just imagine there being much, much stronger arguments for them than this.
No, raw milk is more expensive because it is a much more highly perishable product, and requires higher standards of production and handling to be safe. It will pretty much forever be more expensive than mass produced pasteurized milk.
- Only b/c of gov regulations.
No, raw milk is more expensive because it is a much more highly perishable product, and requires higher standards of production and handling to be safe. It will pretty much forever be more expensive than mass produced pasteurized milk.
???
Here in NH I get all my milk straight from a farmer down the road. I pay him in FRN’s but soon enough I’ll start paying him in silver. Raw milk keeps LONGER then unnatural (pasteurized) milk from my experience.
Once again, you’re acting like the world outside your immediate surroundings doesn’t exist. “It’s true for me, it must be true for everyone!”. Anectodal evidence. You do realize that people who don’t live down the street from a dairy want to drink milk right?
You’re just making that up.
Farmer? As in…civ?
Uh…duh! That’s why they’re supposed to move to NewHampshireohmyfuckinggodnewhampshirerawmilkistotallylegal. Or didn’t you know that.
I always forget IE9 doesnt post. Anyway, yeah I dont drink milk. That is just gross.
IE is gross. Are you dialing up into it with a free trial for America Online too?
(If you’ve ever heard Bert’s “friend” Ernie laugh, this is the part where you’re supposed to pretend you just heard that sound)
Farmer? As in…civ?
And…?
And civilization is evil, or didn’t you get the memo?
Okay, I hate to rain on everyone’s raw-milk parade here, but…
First and foremost, I was extremely disappointed by this video - and this is coming from someone who’s sympathetic to the natural-food camp. But IMO the video was very short on substantive criticism and very long on unsubstantiated rhetoric. In all honesty, it seems to me like Mike Adams and the rest of the crew at Natural News think their readers are idiots, based on the content of this video.
Secondly, I think it’s intellectually dishonest to refer to leukocytes (white blood cells) as “pus”. Yes, they’re present in pus (dead), but they’re also present throughout the body. Natural News might as well produce a video telling us repeatedly that we’re nothing but a bunch of walking pus-sacks.
Thirdly, I made some back-of-the-envelope calculations to find out just how much of a milliliter (mL) of milk would consist of leukocytes, in terms of both volume and mass. Based on this link, I used a cell radius of 10 micrometers, which is a conservative estimate (I can’t imagine bovine leukocytes being very different from human leukocytes). 750,000 of such cells would comprise a total volume of about 3.1415927 * 10^9 cubic micrometers. One milliliter is equal to one cubic decimeter, which is equal to 0.001 cubic meters, which is equal to 1.0 * 10^-15 cubic micrometers. The total fraction of one milliliter of milk taken up by these 750,000 cells would then be 0.0031415927, or 0.31415927%.
For mass, since cells are about as dense as water (1 g/mL), I used a leukocyte mass of 4.18879 * 10^-9 grams. 750,000 of the somatic cells would then collectively mass about 0.0031415925 grams. From here I used a density of milk of 1.027 g/mL (1 kg/L is the same as 1 g/mL). The total fraction of the mass of one milliliter of milk taken up by these 750,000 cells would then be 0.0030589995, or 0.30589995%.
So there you have it. Even at the maximum allowable level, less than 1% of milk, in terms of both volume and mass, would be taken up by somatic cells. I wouldn’t exactly call that drinking pus. That doesn’t even go into the fact that the somatic cell count is typically taken before the milk is processed. The pasteurization process would presumably kill all the leukocytes, if they weren’t dead already after milking.
