Comments on: Wisconsin appoints raw milk working group

By: annie

annie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:44:02 +0000

it’s VERY difficult to get information as to when these meetings are or where they’re being held, IF AT ALL.. why the big hush-hush? it’s all over facebook, but nothing in brownfield, surprise surprise…

By: Maureen F

Maureen F — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:23:51 +0000

I am lactose intolerant and can only drink raw milk without painful side effects. When my raw milk farm sadly closed their doors last month (after years of struggling with the state), I was furious. I cannot tolerate pasteurized milk and am now forced to go dairy-free against my will.

This article gave me a glimmer of hope. I hope that the working group can see that for some of us raw milk is more than a health choice – it is our only dairy option.

By: David Farin

David Farin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:57:04 +0000

My family has been buying shares in cows from individual farmers in order to obtain the same milk that their families drink for several years. But we just got a call from our current source saying that their milk house is padlocked and we won’t be able to share in her milk any longer. I just heard about another case in Wisconsin where a farmer had been locked out of their milk house as well.

Now, it seems we will need to get ourselves our own cow since they just padlocked the milk house of the farmer where we were sharing in the expense of caring for a cow. The question is, what will we do with all of our extra milk after buying a cow? Maybe if our cow mmmmoooooves from one family’s back yard to the next on a rotation, we can all take turns milking her. Gee, it sounds an awful lot like what we were doing, only without the health practices that a professional farmer knows so much about. Of course, this way they can’t lock up our milk can…