Raw Milk. Should we drink it?

The NeighbourFood Podcast

Who doesn’t love a glass of creamy nutritious milk full of protein, vitamins, and minerals?

In this week’s episode, we explore raw milk. With the growing popularity of natural, local, farm-sourced foods many people are now consuming raw milk which is basically milk directly from the cow in its purest form, with minimal intervention.

The most important thing to realise with raw milk is that it has not been pasteurised, which is the process of heating the milk to 71.7°C for at least 15 seconds to kill any pathogens or bacteria making it safe for human consumption while also extending its shelf life.

However, there are countless advocates who argue that it is not only creamier and tastier, but has superior health and nutritional benefits that pasteurisation would have eliminated.

So we ask, is Raw Milk a superfood or is it a dangerous fad? And to help us answer this, we speak to a number of experts on this topic including Dr. Wayne Anderson from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland; Elisabeth Ryan, one of the founders of Raw Milk Ireland; organic raw dairy milk farmer Sean Condon of Temple Roe Organic Dairy Farm and Deirdre MacMahon, host of NeighbourFood Limerick.

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Links mentioned in show:

See a list of raw milk producers who have registered with Department of Agriculture here

Google Earth shows that cow and deer herds align like compass needles

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