Yes Raw Milk CAN and WILL make you sick if you are NOT around the cows daily that you GOT the milk from! Animals in one place, just like people, have different bacteria then the ones someplace else. When you are around the same animals day in and day out your body becomes immune to those bacteria. Hence when a farm family drinks and uses their own milk they are more likely NOT to get sick from it. When visiting a farm NEVER NEVER DRINK RAW MILK!!!!!! YOU WILL GET ILL!!!!!

More info on raw milk consumption:

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I come from a small town in North Dakota. My folks had a general grocery store where a farmer would bring fresh milk every morning. My folks would fill glass bottles and place paper caps on top and sell to customers every day. The customer always brought the bottle back empty so they didn't have to pay a deposit on the new filled bottle. I never heard of anyone getting sick from drinking raw milk every day. In fact this was the only type of milk we had to sell.

I grew up on a farm, only drinking raw milk till I was 18 yrs old. When we had to drink milk in school we thought it tasted terrible. There were 5 of us kids drinking it, and none of us every got sick from drinking milk.

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Actually, it is NOT illegal to distribute raw milk. You can purchase shares in a cow, and since you are a part owner, you can legally do with the milk as you wish. We've also gotten around it by buting raw milk (for cheesemaking) by purchasing it as "pet quality" or pig feed.

The Weston price foundation is a movememnt that touts raw high fat milk as a big part of it's diet.. that and coconut oil. However, their diet is based on anecdotes, not avtual study.

THis raw milk thing seems to be big amongst the home-birthing, homeschool soopah Xtian crowd.

Wash my hands..I get it media. Is that the best prevention?

Wipe my butt...I get it.Geeze

Campylobacter: the King of Foodborne Disease in the US
Posted on August 22, 2009 by Drew Falkenstein
It is a wonder that Campylobacter doesn't get more attention as a public health scourge. It has long ruled the international kingdom of diarrhea as the most prevalent foodborne disease worldwide--the United States too--yet the average person walking down the street has probably never heard of it. Nonetheless, Campylobacter continues to cause more illnesses than any of its bacterial brethren.

Campylobacter, like E. coli, is a family of bacteria; and there are multiple strains of it that can make you sick. Campylobacter jejuni is the most common. The illnesses that Campylobacter infections cause are called Campylobacteriosis. The CDC receives about 10,000 reports a year, but it is estimated that between two and four million people are infected annually.

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(and don't forget to look out for the Attack of the Killer Peanut Butter either!)

I blame it on Iran and N Korea -- in fact, it's probably how Kim Jong became "IL" in the first place!

sounds like a campground I went to once...........campylobacter..... I hope all recover.

quote -i milk cows. if you have never drank raw milk before you could get sick. it all depends on butter fat content. if you drink 2% and than drink cow milk that is Between 3.5 to 4.00 % thats rich and you could get sick. because your body not use to it.-"
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Uhh, this has nothing to do with fat content, this is a bacteria mostly found in feces that somehow tainted the milk.

I had 'raw milk' as a child while spending a week on the farm of my great-uncle. It was so gross I haven't drank much milk since!

i milk cows. if you have never drank raw milk before you could get sick. it all depends on butter fat content. if you drink 2% and than drink cow milk that is Between 3.5 to 4.00 % thats rich and you could get sick. because your body not use to it.

There has been a lot of damage done because of antibiotics, pesticides and chemicals all around us. We didn't have as much of that or it was just beginning "in the olden days".

OK... that's creepy! As a child (yes I'm old... I had an Aunt who had a dairy farm next door, and we would get fresh milk free to make ice cream...) never got sick. My aunt had chickens and would chase the chickens around the yard in the fall, hack off the heads on a stump... the bodies would flop around for a few minutes, then she'd pluck em. Best chicken I ever had!

It's called farm life. Not sure how this milk made people ill, other than improper handling... Farmers know how to handle their byproducts.