Episode 2639: Vinnie Tortorich speaks to dairy farmer Mark McAfee about solving “the milk problem,” the benefits of raw milk, commercial milk, and more.
Solving The Milk Problem
- The legality and illegality of certain substances. (2:30)
- Mark is a Raw Milk Farmer and has been for 27 years. (8:00)
- Pasteurization kills all the benefits of milk.
- Homogenization breaks up the butter fat for convenience’s sake.
- Mark explains other things that are done to commercial milk.
- Mark explains how he keeps raw milk clean and maintains its benefits. (12:00)
- The history of pasteurizing milk in the United States goes back to 1893.
- Milk used to get easily contaminated once dairies entered cities. (16:00)
- Cities were filthy decades ago and created “the milk problem.”
- Thirty to forty percent of people would die from contaminated milk in the late 1800s.
- Mark describes how raw milk is processed. (22:00)
- Mark’s farm has a lab on site that tests every batch for negative bacteria.
- The only benefits to commercialized milk are that it “lubricates cereal.” (24:30)
- Pasteurized milk is the number one allergenic food listed on the FDA’s website.
- Raw milk is not associated with bad digestion; it can heal the gut. (33:00)
- Food is the foundation of health, not medicine. (41:00)
- They discuss which states where raw milk is legally available. (43:00)
- Do your research on farms in your area, and whether raw milk is available to you or not.
- Mark’s raw milk is available in approximately 500 stores in California.
- Go to rawfarmusa.com to find out more.
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