Raw Milk Warning - Unfair Cherry Picking By CDC, Says Weston A. Price Foundation

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After the CDC warned about the dangers of raw milk and raw milk products yesterday, The Weston A. Price Foundation says the authors appeared to have deliberately cherry picked data to make their point. Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A...

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The Government has to try and justify shutting down an Amish raw milk place at gunpoint.

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Sad it has come to this!

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F&n gov't just tightening their noose around its citizens throats more and more each day.

Here's a good quote from that article.......

"What consumers need to realize, first of all. is that the incidence of foodborne illnesses from dairy products, whether pasteurized or not, is extremely low. For the 14-year period that the authors examined, there was an average of 315 illnesses a year from all dairy products for which the pasteurization status was known. Of those, there was an average of 112 illnesses each year attributed to all raw dairy products and 203 associated with pasteurized dairy products.

"In comparison, there are almost 24,000 foodborne illnesses reported each year on average. Whether pasteurized or not, dairy products are simply not a high risk product."

And a couple more............

"Morell wonders why the authors excluded 2007 data, given that it was a peak year for illnesses associated with pasteurized milk - surely if data leading up to six years ago were included, why omit five years ago? The authors do not explain why they stopped at 2006. In 2007 e. coli linked to pasteurized cheese made 135 people ill in the USA - in the same year there were three deaths linked to listeria-tainted pasteurized milk.

No data were included that covered the 1980s either, when tens of thousands of foodborne infections were linked to pasteurized dairy products. In 1985, 16,000 reported cases of salmonellosis were traced back to just one pasteurized milk dairy. According to several reports, in 1985 over 160,000 people across the USA became ill from consuming pasteurized milk products, says the Weston A. Price Foundation."