Vogel Dairy Farm FAQs

Is Raw Milk Safe?

Real milk produced under sanitary conditions and chilled immediately is a safe and healthy food.

It is important that cows are healthy; they should eat appropriate food such as grass, hay, or silage. The milk should be full-fat, as many important anti-microbial and health-supporting components are in the fat.

More information: “Real Milk Is Not Pasteurized.”

Weston A. Price Foundation

Is Raw Milk Legal?

IN BOAH Report for the Indiana General Assembly, 2012

Summary: “Currently, individuals are acquiring raw milk from producers through Pet Food Sales. BOAH believes that pasteurization is a highly effective practice… but the decision to authorize or not the sale of unpasteurized milk to consumers is ultimately political.”

Demand for Raw Milk:

Indiana's consumers want unpasteurized milk. BOAH is aware that Pet Licensing is likely currently being utilized in the state to distribute unpasteurized milk to consumers:

In 2012, the IN General Assembly enacted amendments to Indiana Code 15-19-7-40 to require the distribution of raw milk for use as a commercial feed with a prominent label stating 'Not for Human Consumption.'

The US FDA rule governs only the interstate (carried between states) sale of unpasteurized milk to consumers. Each state governs the intrastate (within the state) sale of unpasteurized milk to consumers.

California Court Hearing on Raw Milk for Human Consumption:

Superior Court of California, April 25, 2008
Organic Pastures Dairy Company, LLC, and Claravale Farm, Inc.
Vs.
State of California, Ag. And the Secretary of Dept. Food and Ag.

Excerpts from the Reporter’s transcript of the proceedings.

Dr. Hull, B.A. in science and a Ph.D. in microbiology, fellowship at Stanford, head of dairy microbiology at a federally funded Australian Scientific Research Organization.

A piece of cheese sitting on top of wax paper.

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Q. [Dr. Hull] “Have you published research on [the] subject [of spoilage and the beneficial effects of probiotics]?”

A. “Yes… If you inoculate 10,000 Listeria into raw milk, then in 48 hours, all [the Listeria] is killed. That’s at body temperature.”

Q. “What is the difference between raw and unpasteurized milk?”

“Raw milk is a living food. And pasteurized milk, which is cooked-I would describe it as a dead food. Raw milk is living just as you and I are living because it contains a number of live components. First is competitive flora… the same microorganisms that live inside our intestinal tract… it’s the same flora that’s used to make cheese and yogurt… strains of lactic acid bacteria… which will kill all the pathogens…”

”The second component is what nature provided in milk from the mammal, and we refer to it as innate immunity, white cells. That same system operates in milk when it’s drawn from a cow. We then have a subset of enzyme systems destined to kill pathogens that get into the milk.” “This system is inactivated at high temperatures; beneficial bacteria are inactivated at below and near-boiling temperatures. One bad enzyme survives boiling. So if we look at pasteurized milk, white cells are killed, but the other bad enzyme remains active.

The third component is a group of good enzymes to digest the milk. Milk is very complex. The good enzymes are there to digest components into smaller molecules… to be absorbed. But with pasteurized milk, those systems are dead [making digestion difficult.]

Pasteurized milk at room temperature will spoil, putrefy and make you sick. Raw milk at room temperature will curdle, begin to ferment, and is safe to drink. Fermented foods have inbuilt immunity and kill pathogens if they get into the product.

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California Court Hearing on Raw Milk for Human Consumption:

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