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I was unable to get back to someone who’s question I answered, and “CK” does not allow email. So my responce is here, and will contain information for others.

CK lives in Texas. Raw milk sales are legal in Texas. Sales must be on the farm and can only be directly to the consumer. Farmers must obtain a Grade A Raw for Retail Milk Permit from the state Department of Health. Licensees can sell milk products such as raw cream and raw yogurt as well. There are currently eleven retail raw milk licensees in the state with all of them selling only raw goat milk and raw goat milk products.

Here is a link to anyone wishing to look up the laws about raw milk sales in their own state:

http://www.realmilk.com/milk-laws-1.html

Since many folks in the Environmental section are interested in slow foods, farmers markets, or direct farm purchases this gives you information about the legalities of raw milk purchases.

Comments?
You are correct, that people that are not use to raw milk need to be careful. I live on a farm, and I’m around animals all day, every day, and all the germs and bacteria that go along with a farm. I have a really high tollerance for germs/bacteria that would send a city person who is not around the livestock/farm to the hospital for a nice long stay.

However if raw milk is handled properly is is not dangerous.

It’s also true that some people in some states are getting around the law about selling raw milk, by selling it as “pet food only.”

Some states require that you put dye into milk that is for “pet food only.”

If you are buying “pet food only” raw milk to give your family, you need to be very very careful. If you are milking goats/cows for pet food milk you do not need to obey saftey, sanitation, cooling of the milk properly laws. Your family could get quiet ill.

From 2009 UNLABELLED GM sugars will be in candy, cereal, granola bars, baby food, breads, in fact all common foods that contain sugar in America. Just think of how many processed foods contain sugar;

‘Bob Evans vegetable stirfry contains 31 grams of sugar and 505 calories.

Kentucky fried chicken’s teriyaki wings contains 30 grams of sugar and 480 calories.

Quaker natural granola contains 30 grams of sugar and 420 calories’

‘This year, farmers are planting Monsanto’s Roundup-Ready GM sugar beets for sale to food producers for the first time. This beet is genetically engineered to survive multiple, direct applications of the weed killer, Roundup, and its active ingredient, glyphosate. What’s particularly appalling about the approval of this GM sugar beet is that at the time of its approval, Monsanto convinced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to increase the glyphosate residues allowed on sugar beetroots by an astounding 5,000 percent. This opens up the possibility for excessive pesticide spraying on GM sugar beets’

Despite widespread consumer demand for labeling, the biotech industry has stubbornly refused to label its GM products. Why? Because if consumers could make informed choices about foods that contain GM ingredients, chances are they would not buy them. Poll after poll has confirmed consumer distaste for GM foods, particularly given the absence of human health studies that prove GM foods are safe for human consumption. Yet, the biotech industry remains arrogant in its refusal to give consumers the labels that they demand and deserve.

Food producers, like consumers, have also been held hostage by the biotech industry, which has steadfastly denied them the right to know if the food they purchase has been grown from GM seeds. GM beet sugar, which could be released into the food supply as early as 2009, will be combined with non-GM sugar and sold as “sugar,” with no indication that some of it has come from GM beets. Manufacturers of candy, cereal, granola bars, baby food, breads — anything that contains sugar — would be hard-pressed to avoid using sugar derived from GM beet sugar once it’s introduced into the market. This “no label” policy eliminates food producers’ right to know, choose, or refuse to use non-GM sugar in its products. It also keeps consumers in the dark’

So, does it bother you?

Sources – direct quotes

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/10/29/152739/07

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Health-People-Healthy-Planet/GM-Sugar-In-Food.aspx?blogid=1506&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email

http://www.organicconsumers.org/kelloggs.cfm

http://www.wellsphere.com/weight-loss-article/20-highest-sugar-content-foods-in-america/24286

The label won’t tell you anything, it will just say sugar. You as an American consumer, have no right to know, no way of knowing if it is GM sugar, but then, neither will the food manufacturers!