www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/28/feds-sting-amish-farmer-selling-raw-milk-locally/
raw milk is bad yet the fluro water is good.
what's next a crackdown on organic farmers as they don't comply with Monsanto's belief that all seeds should be GM?
i buy around 2 litres of raw milk per week.
tastes fantastic,is a superfood and my pussy Katie loves drinking the raw milk.
When I was a kid I used to drink gallons of it and it was still warm, from the cow or goat body temperature, I survived and I am a healthy guy! We are trying to hard to stay away from bacteria and it is becoming a phobia, just check how many ppl carry a little container of antibacterial soap around, even smearing it on after a hand shake!
Sad - We had a house cow (strange name for it as it was never allowed in the house) I used to wake up early just so I could be the 1st in our household to get the full-cream milk on my weetbix from the previous night's milking...then off down the paddock to do the morning milking.
Pretty soon it will be illegal to drink raw water! Again, the phobia with rainwater tanks - we used to scoop some pretty nasty things out of our tanks, but it never affected me (twitch)
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I thought it would be more likely to be a food-handling issue - they didn't have the right papers...not that 'raw' milk is not good for you?!
must be a witch 
The regulations (in oz) seem to prohibit the sale of raw milk for human consumption.
However this does not stop the sale of raw milk as "bath milk". So, if you prefer raw milk, check your local organic food shop for bath milk (often sold frozen as it does not keep as long as 'cooked' milk).
^^^ Sneaky!
But do you trust something that clearly wasn't sold for human consumption as a drink?
I'm not saying raw milk is inherently bad, it's what happens when you don't store / transport it properly that's bad...
^^^ Personaly I don't seek out raw milk to drink (but have have had it a few times when I was dating a loonie hippie chick). I think that it would be nice if people have the freedom to choose raw milk if they want, however, it does not keep as long and there are some risks (Q-fever can be caught from raw milk). I see it as buyer beware; assess the risks either way and make your choice. But, and it's a big but, take responsibility for your decision and if you choose to drink raw milk, accept the risk (however small). 
if you choose to drink milk that has went through a completely unatural process of being heated to high temperature then cooled,then please accept the risk[however small]
^^^ Yes. You are indeed right. There are risks on both sides of this decision (as there are with most).
I am pro choice on this issue (even if I am guilty of following the masses and buying the milk that the regulators would have us buy). That is why I posted about the bath milk.
Btw, I use the term "loonie hippy chick" with affection. This particular hippie taught me a few things that I am grateful for. I am often considered a hippie by other people (except, perhaps real hippies).
edit: this post was in answer to Petermac33
^^ Maybe.
But that would be a logical reason.
They also regard lawn mowers as un-Godly, but whipper-snippers are OK.
So when I go visit my sister you see Amish people whipper-snippering big front lawns on a weekend. Looks weird using a little whipper-snipper to mow a lawn, and whats the difference really ?
Having said that they are very nice people to talk to and their neighbourhoods are very clean and pretty, with no crime and they do sell some very nice produce at the markets.
And their horse-drawn buggies are an awful lot better than the giant F250s and other vehicles the rest of the Yanks and Canadians roar past them in.
And, they are probably happier than the average north american, so on that basis alone they are probably right in their beliefs.
Oh come on. This is about the sale of raw milk. Nobody is going to stop you sucking on a cow teat if you want to.
I worked for a short while just recently collecting organic produce from Flemington in Sydderly. One of the products was Cleopatras Bath Milk.
It is an interesting situation. There will always be some risk with unprocessed milk but if it is coming from an organic dairy the level of hygiene is likely to be significantly better than a run of the mill commercial dairy where pasteurisation is highly desireable owing to the pathogen overloads.
When milk is processed it is not only pasteurised but homogenised, which is why you no longer get cream settling at the top of the container.
It is in the financial interests of the large producers to prevent people from buying from alternative sources and one of the ways in which they do so is to influence restrictions. If the restrictions call for costly plant then it eliminates the small players automatically and hey presto, you have Cleopatras Bath Milk!
Sometimes they even do it to protect the public health.
Just today there was a story about a person catering for her local group and passing on salmonella in the food. She was fined heavily, even though she wasn't running a business.
I think you could easily argue that some sort of control is needed for food production.
Milk is the fastest thing in the world
.....cos it is pasteurised before you see it
