Guest guest Posted March 9, 1999 Report Share Posted March 9, 1999 > The solution, as Srila Prabhupada said, is to grow our own food and keep > our own cows. If you keep the cows very clean it might be ok to not boil or pasteurize milk. If strict hygienic circumstances cant be guaranteed milk should be boiled or at least pasteurized. SP. said milks means hot and slightly sweetened. It is easier to digest when it is hot since the cold milk fat is difficult to emulsify. The heating is not a problem as much as the homogenization is. > It is nothing but > half-boiled milk lacking in nourishment. If you give to calves they die. > If you give it to rats they fail to reproduce their species. This is partially true but not relevant for humans. Non of the animals is supposed to eat anything cooked. So why should they tolerate boiled milk as well, as humans do who boil most of their food. If you eat grass the whole day it might not be healthy for you but its more than fine for the cow. Another factor is the freshness of the milk. Bacteria counts are doubling every half an hour in un boiled milk. If you drink the milk strait from the (clean and healthy) cow it might be fine but if you have to wait a few days until you get the milk, it might contain enough bacteria already to make you sick. In Austria we just had a few cases of borrelioses which was transmitted by un boiled goat milk. Not a very pleasant disease by the way. Ys Ud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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