Comments on: Health department recalls Organic Pastures dairy products

By: Devon

Devon — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:13:07 +0000

Where are you getting your information? Read this article, they in fact have tested positive for E.Coli and it was the only liknk between all five children. “In a letter to Organic Pastures owner Mark McAfee, the California Department of Public Health said 10 samples collected from the raw milk dairy’s calf area were positive for E. coli O157:H7, and two were a genetic match for the outbreak strain that infected five children.”

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/01/test-results-show-organic-pastures-link-to-outbreak/

By: Devon

Devon — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:35:30 +0000

If you NEVER hear about it then where are you getting that information I wonder?

By: susan

susan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:15:25 +0000

I was thinking the same thing but I think management would frown on a cow in my 983 sq. ft. Apt.

By: Ann Williams

Ann Williams — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:33:46 +0000

Mark, you really should educate yourself. Thousands of people are drinking this milk every day. Lots more would have gotten sick had raw milk been the cause. I cannot drink pasteurized milk as it doesn’t digest very well and causes stomach problems but raw milk gives me no problem. Pasteurization kills the enzymes that help us digest this product. I grew up drinking raw milk and never once had a serious infection. This is just the health department and big business wanting to shut down production in these dairies.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:25:33 +0000

Remember what happened to the RajNeesh people and their salad outbreak?
There’s people in my neighborhood(Coronado, CA) actively opposing organic farming, doing over-the-fence and neighboorhood yelling. I suspect foul play.

By: Rain

Rain — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:59:08 +0000

I live in San Diego and we go threw about 2 gallons of Organic Pastures milk a week. We’ve been drinking it for a few years and have never been sick. It wasn’t the milk. They haven’t found the bacteria in any of the dairy farms products so far. The article even says one of the children didn’t have any raw milk products before he got sick. The government has been trying to shut the raw dairy farms down because they are being paid off by the commercial dairy farm’s lobbyist to do so.

By: Abby lawson

Abby lawson — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:02:28 +0000

Just wish I could get some Raw mIlk I have a child who is sick and needs the raw milk that I ferment to make kefir, yogurt and sour cream I also need the cream to make butter. Hope we can get the raw milk soon. Might have to go out and buy my own cow!

By: Mark Felt

Mark Felt — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:55:45 +0000

@Sonny,
I don’t know if you were responding to my post or another, but nothing I said was an affront to raw milk or organic foods. In fact, my wife, two kids, and I just finished off a gallon of raw goat milk and organic fruits and vegetables are commonplace at our table. I was merely questioning whether pasturization would have prevented an E. Coli outbreak in raw milk. The intent wasn’t to start WWIII over spilt milk.

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:20:48 +0000

Idiot!!! Even the government press release stated that all tests of Organic Pastures milk tested NEGATIVE for e.coli! :

“While laboratory samples of Organic Pastures raw milk have not detected E. coli 0157:H7 contamination, epidemiologic data collected by the California Department of Public Health link the illnesses with Organic Pastures raw milk.”

My whole family including kids have been drinking Organic Pastures Raw milk for 5 years. Never had any issues! More than 75,000 people drink their milk. If they had been the cause of the E.coli then more people would have gotten it!

No E Coli was found in the Organic Pastures milk, so the outbreak is not from the milk. Farmers who care about raw milk are much cleaner and more careful than big pasteurizing megadairies, and, ahem, big farms that grow bagged lettuce…please do your detective work properly, and stop punishing raw milk dairies without cause!

Another brilliantly executed abuse of government power! It speaks volumes about te character of Mark McAfee and Organic Pastures Dairy- RAW DAIRY PRODUCTS that they still wish to continue to business in this state after all they’ve been unnecessarily/illegally punished for.

By: GR8GRMPA

GR8GRMPA — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:44:56 +0000

By the way, if you want to “really know” the truth just google….CDC admits no one has died from drinking raw milk in last 11 years in California