Raw milk does have a whole different (and better) taste than pasteurized! But this stuff is pretty pricey...

Sounds like a great, "back-to-nature" notion. Now if I just could stand the taste of milk...:)

I don' t drink any cow's milk or any meat from a cow. Caseine which is in all milk, it is a milk protein is a fertilizer for cancer. Read the book, The China Study by Dr Cambell or Campbell. I always forget which way to spell his name. This is the best book I have ever read on the subject of health. HE was commissioned by our government to study why the rates of cancer are so low among the Chinese who lived outside of cities. What he found would then be hidden from the public as it would destroy the dairy industry. We use rice milk.

But I agree, nothing that is pasteurized is good for you. The process kills all the good enzymes you need. It is better even to just eat fruit whole instead of in a juice, unless you juice it yourself. We don't have anything pasteurized in our home.

Living and working in a farming community, it is very common here to drink raw milk, as they say, right from the bulk tank. But then they know how their cows have been raised. Clean and healthy cows give safe milk. Unlike factory cow farms, where they pump antibiotics and BGH Bovine grown hormones into them.

I grew up drinking raw milk as a child on a dairy farm.  The taste is completely different from what is sold in the stores.  I remember being given pasteurized milk in school for the first time; I was shocked and refused to drink it because it tasted so bad. When my parents stopped dairying, I pretty much stopped consuming cow's milk.

Nowadays, my family does not drink cow's milk as a rule.  My husband gets a hankering for it occasionally and we go through a half gallon of organic or local stuff once every three or four months.  I would not hesistate to give the kids or hubby some raw milk for the experience is I knew the farm conditions.  It is just like the beef we eat - we want to know our cow, so to speak.

I wish I could get it here. I've only had it a few times. I does taste different....really good and sweet.

It does absolutely taste different. I got to like it one summer when I worked on a farm and was able to get mine "fresh from the cow."

Only real downside to this new little raw milk dairy is that the milk's pretty expensive.

So, I've got a question. I always thought it was not legal to sell unpasteurized milk. I've heard of folks who sell small (like 1%) "shares" of a dairy cow, so that all the "owners" can legally drink the unpasteurized milk from "their" cow. Is it possible to sell unpasteurized milk in other states, too? Or is this just a "New Mexico" thing? Anybody out there in Activerain-land know the answer?

Colorado is also seeing an emerging raw milk industry.

Apparently, raw milk is legal as long as it does not cross state lines.

Colorado is also seeing an emerging raw milk industry.

Apparently, raw milk is legal as long as it does not cross state lines.