Raw milk: Good enough for Queen Elizabeth, but prohibited for ordinary Canadians
26 January 2012 | 
Author: Professor |
Ethan A. Huff Natural News - 23 January, 2012
The alleged health standards that the food and medical industries are being allowed to enforce on YOU,ME&US more closely resemble a direct inversion of the sentiment of letting US eat cake.
(NaturalNews) Finding access to raw milk is difficult in many parts of
the US, but the situation is even worse in Canada where national law
prohibits the sale of raw milk anywhere in the country. Few people
realize, however, that Queen Elizabeth and her two sons drink this
supposedly "dangerous" food item, as do nearly all Canadian farmers
surveyed in a 2010 study published in Preventive Veterinary Medicine.
A writeup on raw milk published in The Globe and Mail back in 2010 explains that Queen Elizabeth personally drinks raw milk,
and that when her grandsons Harry and William were students at Eton
College, she went out of her way to smuggle it in for them as well. The
Queen apparently recognizes some value in raw milk beyond what health
authorities are willing to admit.
On the same token, nearly 90
percent of more than 2,100 Canadian farmers who sell their milk to the
country's government-run dairy cartel revealed that they siphon off raw
milk from their own cows to feed to their families before it gets
shipped off for homogenization and pasteurization. Like the queen, these
farmers are apparently unswayed by the pseudoscientific nonsense about
the so-called dangers of raw milk.
And yet ordinary Canadians
continue to be deprived of their freedom of choice in choosing what type
of milk to drink. Those with lactose intolerance, for instance, are
forced to simply stop drinking milk, as only raw milk contains the
lactase enzyme that properly breaks down and digests lactose in the
system. The process of pasteurization destroys lactase and all other
enzymes, which makes it difficult for many to digest.
Like the
US, Canada has had its share of government raids and tyranny against
those that even just try to set up herd shares, which allow individuals
to purchase shares in a cow or goat, and access the milk. Back in 2010,
for instance, the Supreme Court of British Columbia issued an injunction
against dairy farmer Alice Jongerden for boarding other people's cows,
and forced her to basically stop milking the cows altogether, which is a
form of animal abuse (http://www.homeontherangefarms.com/).
But
the fact that both Queen Elizabeth and thousands of Canadian dairy
farmers drink raw milk proves that milk can be produced and consumed
safely in raw form. It also represents a blatant double standard, where
only the "elite" are privileged enough to make their own food choices,
while everyone else is subjected to erroneous and arbitrary restrictions
on a wholesome food item that has been consumed safely for centuries,
long before tyrannical governments came along and prohibited it.
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