{"id":2116,"date":"2012-04-20T15:19:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T19:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2012-04-20T15:19:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T19:19:03","slug":"milk-the-raw-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/04\/20\/milk-the-raw-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Milk: the raw wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have friends who travel miles to purchase raw milk. I know farmers who won&#8217;t touch the milk they produce in their own barns, preferring to purchase their dairy beverages from the local <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2117\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/04\/20\/milk-the-raw-wars\/happycow\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2117\" title=\"happycow\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/04\/happycow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>supermarket&#8211;pasteurized, homogenized, stable-ized for long shelf-life. For many, this is a big deal: raw milk vs. processed milk. A really big deal. It&#8217;s even made it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/ombudsman\/2012\/04\/20\/151032717\/the-raw-milk-debate-and-drinking-from-a-goat-s-teat\">NPR Ombudsman&#8217;s column<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not much of a milk drinker, but I owned a family Jersey for many years, making butter, buttermilk, fresh cheeses and yogurt in an effort to use all that milk. Friends would pick up a jug of milk from time to time, all gushing about the joys of raw milk. (Again, I&#8217;m not a milk drinker, so raw milk appealed to me only as the starting point for other dairy products.) My old neighbors all made &#8220;cottage cheese&#8221; from their cows&#8217; milk (set a dish of milk over the heat register overnight&#8230;voila! cottage cheese); or, they&#8217;d pour some cream in a jar and shake the daylights out of it until it turned into butter, pouring off the sweet buttermilk as a favorite drink.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, the gate is open: what do you think about the raw milk wars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have friends who travel miles to purchase raw milk. I know farmers who won&#8217;t [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1420,4815,6272,6274],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}