Re: Non-poultry question for the UK contingent

Jill wrote:
"Amy Blankenship" <Amy_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:I0nnj.12783$1f.2156@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

My sister-in-law in Milton Keynes has had a heart attack. My husband has been reading up and it seems that drinking raw goat milk will help lower cholesterol without drugs. Both she and my husband seem to think that it is illegal to sell raw milk at all in the UK. Is that accurate?


It is perfectly legal to sell raw goats milk over here because goats do not have TB ;)

Don't know what it's like now but back when I had a bit to do with goats I was told the tests which were for cattle were useless in goats, producing false positives. Whether they at the same time missed real positives for TB I do not know. Anyway that's old info so perhaps it has been found that goats really don't have TB.


HOWEVER its VERY hard to find because of our food safety regulations which require pasteurisation when sold wholesale -- ie not to the end consumer.
You can only get it from the producer directly.
AND it is not a cholesterol lowering food -- oh but I wish it was. I love goats milk.
It's lower in cholesterol than cows milk but its not GOOD for someone who wants to really cut down their cholesterol

It's probably worse because the fat is so much more dispersed through it. No doubt it is *possible* to make skim goats' milk but it sure ain't something you can set by and wait for the cream to rise, and skim off to put on your raspberries!


I wish it was - I miss our goats.

I miss my friends' goats. I used to get milk from them - again, in NZ, the rules were the killer. To sell milk commercially they'd have had to set up THE most incredibly elaborate and expensive milking shed and all the gear for washing equipment, storing the milk etc. And how many people have become ill from home-produced goats' (or cows') milk in recent years? And how does this compare with dodgy chicken sandwiches etc???? Ve CAN make rules, it's our JOB to make rules: we are successful because ve make LOTS of rules.

And to confound things further, at the time the rules (e.g. how high up the walls had to be tiled or some damn-fool thing) referred to cows. Cow's tail can reach how far? Goat's tail can reach ___________ ? (That's if flicking poo is the issue but similar questions apply whatever aspect of the standard you looked at.

Anyway officially I got free milk because I was their standby milker who make it possible for them to have time off and go on holiday. Not that anyone asked, as it happened. My friends had the goats because of Mrs Friend's cow-dairy food intolerance. I loved milking the goats, loved the way most of them came nicely from their paddock, along the path in the garden and hopped up onto the little platform. Loved the warm smell of nice clean goats, the beauty of that white milk and the sound it made with each squirt into the bucket....

Soya milk, rice milk and such are the only ones which are cholesterol free.
but they are not cholesterol lowering either.

If anyone is looking for goats milk that is not in the supermarkets then try the British Goat Society for any producers in your area.


There's tetrapack goats' milk in NZ fairly readily available. Probably the same in the UK - perhaps ask at the nearest health food shop or even the pharmacist, or allergy support group.

And to Amy's friend: Watch out always with a wary and critical eye for internet & popular magazine-type information about cholesterol, or any medical/nutritional info. Eating cholesterol isn't going to make more cholesterol in your body though the foods that contain it may do so for other reasons, any more than eating sugar will make you sweet!

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