The research was conducted by Dr Ted Beals, MD, and appears in the summer 2011 issue of Wise Traditions, the quarterly journal of the Weston A Price Foundation.
Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A Price Foundation, a non-profit nutrition education foundation that provides information on the health benefits of raw, whole milk from pastured cows, said: “At last, we have access to the numbers we need to determine the risk of consuming raw milk on a per-person basis.”
The key figure that permits a calculation of raw milk illnesses on a per person basis comes from a 2007 Centers for Disease Control FoodNet survey, which found that 3.04% of the population consumes raw milk based on the 2010 census.
Dr Beals has compiled published reports of illness attributed to raw milk from 1999 to 2010. During the 11-year period, illnesses attributed to raw milk averaged 42 per year.
Dr Beals said: “It is irresponsible for senior national government officials to oppose raw milk, claiming that it is inherently hazardous. There is no justification for opposing the sale of raw milk or warning against its inclusion in the diets of children and adults.”
Pete Kennedy, president of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, said: “Where raw milk is concerned, the FDA has an agenda apart from protecting the public health. The agency wants to restrict and discourage the sale of unprocessed dairy products. This will have the effect of denying freedom of choice.”
Source: Weston A Price Foundation
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