Raw milk roundup #12 — 12 new stories

Dairy cattle in Britain -- where raw milk is legal. Photo by James Ravilious, via Corbis

French government supporting small farmers instead of big agribiz

One Food System to Cure Us All — I don’t think so:  “….More fear-mongering. Raw milk is more healthful than pasteurized, for most healthy people (even lactose-intolerant people may be able to digest it, since it contains lactase; I understand lactase is destroyed by the heat of pasteurization). It is largely the processing and prettifying of foods that create these troubles, not the cows or pigs or plants themselves. Agribusiness mostly focuses on volume and appearance, rather than wholesomeness and naturalness….”