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^{Marc McAfee, CEO Organic Pastures | Alta Dena Community Center, Aug 28 2010} 

I never intended to become an advocate for Raw Milk, yet inadvertently I can’t help but feel passionate about the subject. Raw Milk is one way to restoring and maintaining healthy digestion, immunity and promoting harmonious good bacteria in our “superorganisms” physics. And as a recovering vegan, with a sterilized gut, I need all the help I can get.

It’s not just in our home cleaning products and hand sanitizers, it’s now a germophobe culture of food. Traditional and commercial food industries are doing everything they can to market a fight against all bacteria. What happens when we kill all the good bacteria? A host of health problems, starting with: allergies, asthma, diabetes, heart disease and obesity, just to get the list going. Without promoting good bacteria in our system, we promote a body prone to bad bacteria and degenerative disease. 

Food isn’t just an energy source, it’s medicinal, a stepping stone in cultivating a healthy body. Instead many people are consuming food in desensitized sterilized mouthfuls and relying on reactive western drugs, in a land slide of side effects. America’s (deteriorating) health has become a major commodity and pasteurization and industrialization of our food is literally killing us.

But you won’t be able to read about the health benefits of raw foods on the pioneering websites just yet. Why? Because it is illegal, ruled by the FDC. That’s why Marc Mcafee, CEO of Organic Pastures is touring in person to talk the truth about Raw Milk, and his back to basics farm. At Organic Pastures the cows actually graze on grass pastures, with roaming milk stations. Grass fed dairy (in addition to eggs & meat) isn’t just reassuring imagery, it comes with a multitude of health benefits from more stable fats (omega 3s) to abundance in vitamins.

It was an inspiring 2 hours with McAfee, with an impressive turn out of about 75 people at the Alta Dena Community Center. A city chosen by no coincidence. Alta Dena, as I found out, has a long history in dairy and agriculture, still routed in their culture. It’s one of the few places you can still have up to 200 chickens with no permit. It’s home to prize winning goat cheese and many still active farms.

So why is raw milk so dangerous? Because it has the potential to obliterate the commercial dairy industry as we know it - and they know it. Milk sales are already on a constant decline, due to ever increasing lactose intolerance. (In reality, the lactese, the enzyme that breaks down the lactose into a digestible state is destroyed in pasteurization). Commercial dairy currently has more milk than the know what to do with. Since the dairy industry first began its expansion it’s been a down hill slope of health problems.

The intent of commercial pasteurized dairy is to meet the unparalleled qualities of Raw Milk through “production”. Yet multiple counties in California make it illegal to sell Raw Milk. All of which are lobbied by commercial dairy industry, not individuals concerned about what’s best for the people. While on one hand it would be easier to make milk more honestly, humanely and holistically, on the other that’s a lot of money lost. Even if it means the occasional multi-million recall. Sick people equal money. Including the children. Whom because of their devoid bacteria they normally got from whole foods, starting with breast milk, their sterilized digestion is being linked to type 1 diabetes.

If you’d like to make the switch, and return to nature’s intention of balance, you can find Organic Pasture’s supplied at Nature Mart or the Hollywood Farmer’s Market. We know we’ll be there tomorrow to pick up the freshest supply.

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