Seriously, you should try some. I’m just sitting here enjoying my morning coffee, okay make that afternoon coffee for most people (I’m a night owl), along with my morning (ahem, afternoon) mug of raw milk. Delicious. I’m also enjoying watching the antics of my new canary. He’s rather amusing and singing up a storm today.

But what I wanted to mention here was that I’ve been drinking raw milk since around March of this year and have not been sick with a cold or anything at all in that time. That in itself is not THAT unusual for me, and by itself does not really indicate the great health benefits of raw milk. But my husband started drinking the milk a little after that time and he too has not been sick at all. Now let me just say that he is ALWAYS getting a cold. He is a manager at a restaurant and every time anyone was sick he would get a cold. He was constantly taking cold medication.

I told him to start drinking the raw milk when I started, but it took him a few weeks or maybe it was a month or two to really get going with it. But the change has been really drastic. No colds whatsoever. He came home the other day and said that everyone at work was sick and he was laughing at them all, telling them they should drink their milk. Actually some of them have decided to go ahead and try some based on that. The ones that tried it have loved it so far.

Now my son is another story. He would have been okay if my mother had not read an article in the paper about the dangers of raw milk and how the FDA admonishes no one should drink raw milk of any sort. My mom is the type that if she sees something in print it is true, period. So I need to collect some info for her to read but I haven’t gotten to that yet. I know that she herself is not going to drink it even though she grew up on it when she was little (she must have forgotten that part), and also she had become lactose intolerant to the pasteurized milk. But no matter! I won’t even try to talk her into it. I have basically adopted the attitude of “My life, my milk, my choice, and unless you want me to start criticizing your (bag of chips, unhealthy diet, etc) then keep quiet about it unless you would like to know what led me to my decision and then I’ll be happy to enlighten you.”

But anyway, as to my son, he suffers from teenage-itis and bad choices of foods, asthma, allergies, frequent colds, the works. I have been bugging him to at least drink the raw milk once a day. At least that will improve his health a bit. So he finally agreed and now we’ll see how that goes.

On another note, the neighbor’s horse chased my cow when I put her out in the shared pasture yesterday. So today I went out with my Clinton Anderson Handy Stick and gave him the evil eye if he came around, so he decided to stay on his side. Haha.

Oh I forgot to mention, I’m feeding my dogs raw milk daily now because I want them to live forever, or at least as long as I do. So they are now enjoying the health benefits or raw milk too. And loving every minute of it, I might add. My friend is doing the same. That’s the only flaw I can ever find in dogs, they simply do not live long enough.