"Moosh:]" wrote in message
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On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 17:24:13 +0100, "Jim Webster"
wrote:

"James Curts" wrote in message
news:UpWNa.49412$926.5334@sccrnsc03...
Well, don't have a run away here. In reality it was Not good enough for
thousands of years. Milk is an ideal growing ground for bacteria which
without cooling or refrigeration is unfit to consume in a number of
hours.
Most of the world did not have access to storageble quantities of milk
until
relatively recent times and the utilization of pasteurization made it
possible.

The Amish should only force their illiteracy on themselves. Their
refusal
to
move along with the times is yet another form of control of one man
over
others and has little of merit on which to proceed.

Pasteurization of milk was huge step forward and especially for our
children.

drunk unpasturised milk all my life, and everyone in our family for as
far
back as anyone wants to go,

Lived on a farm, Jim? Would you drink unpasteurised from just
anywhere? Pooled milk? Thought not

have done in the UK when we could get it. Given the testing it has to go
through I haven't any worries.

certainly no TB or similar in the family in the
20th cent and none that we know of in the century before that. With TB
and
Brucella testing in milk on an almost daily basis these are not going to
be
a problem any more.

But the Amish wouldn't do that either, for similar reasons, would
they?

god alone kows


It is probable that urban people with their lower level of immunity to
many
things

Where do you get this from?

just read widely, you find that rural populations and farm populations tend
to have higher immunity to certain things


might be wise to avoid it, but to the best of my knowledge the only
countries than ban the sale of unpasturised milk are Scotland and Canada,
althrough I might be wrong here.

I believe you might

Certainly in the midst of one of our food scares they were even talking
about banning unpasturised cheese, at which point it was pointed out that
they couldn't because the French make and sell vast quantities of
unpasturised cheese to us. We would have to prove it a health risk to ban
the import and no one can come up with enough evidence

I thought they had.

plenty of hysteria, no evidence

Jim Webster