Re: Non-poultry question for the UK contingent
- From: "Jill" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:18:39 -0000
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Jill wrote:
"Amy Blankenship" <Amy_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.
Grin
okay over simplified
and I have found that its now possible to get raw goats milk by mail order
here now.
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!
Why couldn't you ?
We did
GM cream is scrummy
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.
Ours was a small herd but - yup - we had to comply with all the regs in our
own small way even in old buildings when we only had a few goats. We created
all the food safe areas, we built a milking area in the byre and then
divided & lined an old grain building to give us areas for dealing with the
milk and eggs and veggies.
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.
LOL
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.
Thats the problem with the minority livestock sectors
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.
Gold dust !
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....
yuppers
Its why we don't have any, without twice daily milking its just not the same
relationship.
There's tetrapack goats' milk in NZ fairly readily available. Probably
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.
the same in the UK - perhaps ask at the nearest health food shop or even
the pharmacist, or allergy support group.
Sorry - that should have said RAW goats milk
The pasteurised stuff is in most supermarkets.
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!
talking of oversimplified <grin>
--
regards
Jill Bowis
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