Happyville said:Regarding the "dairy" advocates... Well they certainly are pretty viscous when in comes to the raw guys... They massively fund the campaigns to criminalize raw milk farmers in Canada it and the government actually allows them to enforce the laws extra-governmentaly so they are very powerful. I help out with the legal battles with a small farmer, things sure do seem hopeless so I guess we are desperately clinging to something as we havn't given up yet!!!
Obviously, that's not what I'm talking about. I figure if people want to drink raw milk, they should be allowed to and the government is totally evil in their attempts to control that.
What I am talking about is dairy advocates - raw and otherwise - who want to push the idea that milk is good for you in any form on others who have done the research and think otherwise. Certainly, raw, fresh, non-contaminated in any way milk is better than the crap they sell as milk in stores nowadays, but no milk is even better if you are over 4 years old. The dairy farmers could switch to raising grass fed beef cattle and pigs... and do a service that is actually good for everyone. The demand for grass fed beef and pork is rising as more and more people are trying the Paleo diet and discovering that it really does work on just about everything on every level.