PASTEURIZATION

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PASTEURIZATION

 

 

PASTEURIZATION

has only been around for the past 100 years. It is defined as

heating the milk to the point where no enzymes can survive.

The first milk cows were brought to America by the English in the

early 1600s. For decades thereafter the principles of English dairy

farming served to provide the settlers with valuable natural

untampered dairy products.

 

The problems began with the enormous demand for milk in the

burgeoning urban areas of the 1800s. Improper sanitation at the

dairies and lack of hygiene of the milkcows led to contaminated milk

being sold as fresh. The result was occasional cases of diphtheria

among children. Even in those completely unregulated often filthy

dairy conditions, however, the number of cases of sickness and death

that could be attributed solely to bad milk was limited. There were

no full-scale epidemics of milk-borne diseases.

 

The answer to the 'contamination' issue was: just heat the milk to

the point where bacteria from filthy milking practices would all be

killed. Distract the issue from the milking environment to the milk

itself. That way the filthy milking practices could persist, because

supposedly they wouldn't matter.

 

With profit as the prime objective, the focus of the early mass milk

producers was not avoiding contaminated milk, but rather shelf life.

They discovered that by superheating the milk, it wouldn't sour.

 

For a food to sour it has to have living enzymes. Superheating

destroys the enzymes. Dead foods, like dead animals, don't sour.

They rot.

And that's exactly the rationale that gave pasteurization its start

in the US around 1895. In pasteurization, milk is heated to 145

degrees for 45 minutes.

 

Enzymes, which are what makes milk a live food, are destroyed at

118 degrees [22 ]. This results in rendering

the live, nutrient-rich natural food into a dead, mostly

indigestible substance.

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Here is some more info on the dangers of eating dairy that is labeled

" organic " from an articled published at Dr. Mercola's website!

 

http://www.mercola.com/2003/mar/26/organic_foods.htm

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I have long been oppoe**s**d to most people drinking milk as it is

frequently associated with a worsening of health.*

 

*This is particularly sad because milk is one of the healthiest foods

available prior to its being pasteurized. Raw dairy is something I now

strongly advise nearly everyone to regularly consume. If you are a carb

Metabolic Type <http://www.mercola.com/2003/feb/26/metabolic_typing.htm>