What is a Cow Share – I Keep Hearing About this but What Does it Mean?
If you have been doing any research about raw milk and so forth, you’ve probably heard about cow shares. But you may not be quite sure what it means.
It’s basically a way that people use to get around the “illegal to sell raw milk” laws in many states (which are ridiculous of course but that is for another post). So in order to circumvent these ridiculous laws, people are opting for cow shares (which also now in some states is illegal!).
What it simply means is that you pay someone to “own” a part, or share, of their cow. You will pay a weekly or monthly fee, and then you are able to drink the milk because in all states you are allowed to drink the milk of the animal you own.
So, since you own a share of the cow, you basically are one of the owners, and can legally drink the milk. It’s all a bunch of foolishness if you ask me, and I say that people should be allowed to drink raw milk if they want to without the government sticking their nose in.
But since they do insist on butting in, you can find a farm that allows this and buy a share in the cow, then drink your milk perfectly legally.
However, do the research first to make sure you know exactly what is legal and what is not legal in your state. Cow sharing is a great way to obtain your fresh raw milk. Otherwise, you simply buy the milk for your pets and then do what you want with it. Either way, people are going to find a way to obtain their milk.
And if nothing else works, you can always buy a cow and commence to milking your own cow if you have the space and inclination.
We currently have a cowshare, its the only way to get raw milk in Vancouver BC but the government is currently trying to take that one last freedom of choice, with regards to raw milk, away from us!
We bought our share three years ago, since exchanging raw milk for pasteurized milk I stopped getting colds, my health over the past few years has steadily increased and I feel much more active and alert, it never made me sick in any way, in fact it had the exact opposite effect.
I am very grateful to have the opportunity to be in the position to chose to drink raw milk, even if it is a bit of a hassle to have to buy a share in a cow to do so. I hope that this freedom isn’t taken away from me in the next few months as the case the remove this freedom from the Canadian public in BC is going to court in a few weeks from now. Here are some details of the case: Raw Milk Benefits: Fight For Food Freedom, right now my fingers are crossed hoping I’ll still have the freedom to chose to buy raw milk after the case ends.
I linked to your blog a short time ago, after finding it while looking for information on raw milk. A lot of people in my area list cow and goat milk for pets only, online. Once someone buys it though- who is to say what they do with it when they get it home? Is it really the governments business? Only because they haven’t dipped their greedy hands in it and taxed it to death.
They get they share on the property taxes at the feed stores, sales taxes on the feed, income taxes on the feed store employees, property taxes on the farmers and taxes on everything and anything else they can figure out a tax for. Double taxation is illegal, but apparently multiple taxation is just fine…