by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Nutritional Scientist/Nutritionist/Author, and Retired Raw Dairy Farmer Carlet Hoff
There is too little known among the general public about the benefits of raw milk, even though raw milk was
the foster mother of mankind. Controversial seems to be a week adjective when considering the vehement rhetoric of individuals who lash
out against it from mis-education and fear. The bacteria-phobia has no empirical base... (read more)
by Suzanne Nelson, The Independence Weekly, October 31, 2007
The question of whether North Carolinians have the right to purchase unprocessed milk doesn't seem to be going away.
After the N.C. Board of Agriculture adopted a regulation in early September requiring the addition of a charcoal-colored
dye to all raw milk (legally sold only as "pet milk"), the rule was sent to the N.C. Rules Review Commission. Raw milk activists had challenged the legality
... (read more)
by Professor Verner Wheelock, September 1997 Verner Wheelock Associates, North Barn, Broughton Hall Business Park, SKIPTON, N Yorkshire, BD23 3AE
There are several elements in this country which advocate that all milk used for the production of
cheese should be pasteurized initially. For example, a recent statement from the IFST has recommended that milk used in the
production of cheese should undergo full pasteurization...
In reaching the conclusion on pasteurization, the authors noted that raw milk cannot be guaranteed to be free from pathogenic bacteria.
A detailed examination of the case presented in the IFST document reveals some serious flaws in the argument... (read more)
by Suzanne Nelson, The Independence Weekly, June 30, 2007
I showed up at the farm in the dark of night. This was not a necessary element to procuring my illicit elixir,
but it somehow seemed apropos. A lone light and the moon illuminated the gravel drive between my car and the barn in rural Alamance County.
A black cat scurried across my path, and I mused at the irony... (read more)
by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Nutritional Scientist/Nutritionist/Author
The nation is fighting the last battles for commercially available raw milk on the vast open market in the USA.
The onslaught of microbe-phobia has virtually outlawed raw milk or bankrupt the major fresh raw dairymen with over-regulation and
testing most states. In a few states you can obtain raw milk directly from the farmer, at the farm only. In several states,
people can buy fresh raw milk products... (read more)
by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Nutritional Scientist/Nutritionist/Author and Retired Raw Dairy Farmer Carlet Hoff
As a result of Ministers agreeing in 1993 to review the continued sale of raw cows' milk in England
& Wales, the Steering Group on the Microbiological Safety of Food approved a survey to be carried out to measure the hygienic
quality of that retailed in these countries and to establish the prevalence of putative pathogens.
The main aim of this survey was to determine total viable count and counts of coliform bacteria... (read more)
by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Nutritional Scientist/Nutritionist/Author
A French crystal-chemist by the name of Louis Pasteur, who was born in 1822 and died in 1895,
suddenly became famous because he saved the wine and beer industries from devastation. During a period in Europe when molds
were affecting wine crops, Pasteur invented a heat process that saved the wine from complete financial failure...
On his death-bed, Pasteur confessed that his and the allopathic bacteria theory was all wrong and that disease was the
result of a toxic environment... (read more)
