Got (Goat) Milk?

So if you know me at all, you know that I HATE (detest, loathe entirely) pasteurized cow's milk. For years I have been a total conspiracy theorist about our nation's milk and the correlation between drinking this nasty hormone-filled product and the fact that I have third graders with bigger boobs than me.

But I digress.

So I vowed that my little girl wasn't going to get all that hormone-injected cow's milk that is in the grocery stores. She rarely drank milk as a little girl but I made sure she got lots of calcium in her diet by giving her spinach, cheese, yogurt, nuts, and oranges. Yes, you can get calcium from other sources than cow's milk! Shocking right?!! I was on a mission.

As I've researched milk, I have found that it's in the pasteurization process where cow's milk is totally destroyed of all nutritional value. So cow's milk IS very healthy and full of wonderful digestive enzymes, but sadly, pasteurized milk is dead to all nutrients. If you want to read more information on this, complete with backing research, check out this website: Real Milk

This is the reason we need RAW MILK legislation passed in Louisiana to allow farmers to sell raw milk, which has not been pasteurized. Read more about that here:

Sources of real milk and real milk products in Louisiana:

Status of Louisiana-based raw milk: There are no raw milk listings for Louisiana farms at this time. The government has been harassing the only farmers who were attempting to manage a cowshare, and so their listing has been removed for now. According to the regulatory agencies in Louisiana, cowshares are illegal. However, cowshares are a contract known as an agistment, whereby one person is contracted to care for the livestock owned by another person (this arrangement may be more familiar to you as owning a share in a bull or a racehorse). Agistments have a long history of legal precedent dating back to English Common Law. Louisiana residents should be outraged by this infringement of their rights and should take several steps:

1. Join the Weston A. Price Foundation and become active in the local Louisiana chapters. As a foundation member you can elect to receive emailed Action Alerts that let you know what you can do to protect your rights to obtain and consume farm foods.
2. Join the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (farmtoconsumer.org) as a consumer member ($50/year) or farmer member ($125/year). The fund represents farmers who provide nutrient dense foods, and also protects consumers, including cow share owners, from unwarranted government intrusion.
3. Let your representatives and the heads of your regulatory agencies know that you are displeased with their harassment of farmers, and that you are aware of and intend to exercise your right to enter into contractual agreements with farmers to care for and milk cows that you own.
4. Form private buying clubs and obtain your farm foods from a farmer in a neighboring state. Let your representatives know that your food dollars are going out of state because of Louisiana regulations.

So while I wait for raw milk legislation to pass, we have started getting goat's milk from a local farmer, WestMar Farms.

Goat's milk tastes like whole cow's milk. It's delicious and cold and leaves no strange after taste. It simply tastes like MILK.  We go to the Horse Farm to get our milk from WestMar farms every other week. If we run out early, we run to Sandra's Whole Food Stores. They have it for sale there and it's worth the drive to get our good goat's milk!! 

Goat's milk is pasteurized, but it's extremely low-heat pasteurization, which only kills off bacteria and parasites, but protects all the wonderful nutrients in the milk.  

If you go to the horse farm, look for their booth! They are there every other week!! WestMar farms.

ps.... Hannah asks to drink it ALL the time!!

Here's an article on the reason someone would choose to drink goat's milk over cow's milk from the website "Ask Dr. Sears":  Goat's Milk