{"id":2142,"date":"2010-05-20T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2010-05-20T12:20:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:20:06","slug":"raw-milk-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/20\/raw-milk-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Raw milk in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2144\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/20\/raw-milk-in-the-news\/rayhill\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2144\" title=\"rayhill\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/05\/rayhill-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/05\/rayhill-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/05\/rayhill-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/05\/rayhill-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2010\/05\/rayhill.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The other day I watched Ray Hill of Windy Ridge Dairy in West Potsdam milk his 12 cows.\u00a0 He washed his hands like he was going into surgery.\u00a0 He sanitized the pipe that takes the milk to the bulk tank.\u00a0 He cleaned the cows&#8217; teats with iodine &#8211; twice.\u00a0 He inspected each one before slipping on the milker.\u00a0 Afterwards, he wiped the teats with iodine again.\u00a0 And he put fresh bedding under the cow before she lied down.<\/p>\n<p>Ray will sell some of that milk to customers unpasteurized, or raw.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why he&#8217;s so careful.<\/p>\n<p>Raw milk is one of those great American debates right now, with intractible beliefs on both sides, and gigabytes of web space housing scientific data backing the claims.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for a story next week about the raw milk debate as we experience it here in the North Country.\u00a0 Have an opinion or personal experience?\u00a0 Comment below.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the big news is that <a href=\"http:\/\/leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com\/thestew\/2010\/05\/wisconsin-governor-vetoes-raw-milk-bill.html\">Wisconsin&#8217;s Governor vetoed a bill<\/a> that would have eased restrictions on raw milk sales in his state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I watched Ray Hill of Windy Ridge Dairy in West Potsdam milk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}