Grass fed milk OR Fresh milk - where to buy? (Raleigh: sales, chapel)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Maple View, Ran-Lew and Homeland are local dairies. The milk is "fresh", but not raw. Raw means unpasteurized. Ran-Lew is unhomogenized (cream separates and rises to the top), but is pasteurized according to NC law.
So is grass fed milk that's sold in like wholefood better?
Yes.
Do some research, and don't feed your children cow $#!+. Listeria, Salmonella, Giardia...Nasty stuff.
I know, I know, they drank raw milk on the farm back then, and were fine, but they didn't wear seatbelts back then, either, or do a whole lot of other things that people do now for their own safety.
What is your reason for drinking milk from grass-fed cows? Are you aware of the various pathogens that reside in the guts of cows?
That does not even begin to make sense! Cows are meant to eat grass. The milk does not get contaminated with pathogens inside the cow. It's once the cow is milked that the milk can come into contact with potentially problematic bacteria. That's why they pasteurize it. But ALL cows should eat grass. Would you prefer milk from cows crowded into feedlots and dairy barns being feed things like corn that they aren't designed to eat and standing knee deep in manure? Very gross and much more prone to bacterial contamination.
GCretro, just buy the Maple View Milk in the glass bottles. It's available all over the Triangle in many grocery stores. Harris Teeter usually stocks it. They're good folks. You can go visit their farm outside Chapel Hill in Orange County if you want to get a look at their cows and the green grass they eat. Get some ice-cream from their country store.
GCretro, just buy the Maple View Milk in the glass bottles. It's available all over the Triangle in many grocery stores. Harris Teeter usually stocks it. They're good folks. You can go visit their farm outside Chapel Hill in Orange County if you want to get a look at their cows and the green grass they eat. Get some ice-cream from their country store.
I believe you pay a deposit on the glass bottle and then you can return it to the store and get money back on it. I don't actually buy it at HT so I'm not sure how they work that, but where I buy (Weaver Street Market) that's how they do it. They collect the bottles and then Maple View comes and gets them and sterilizes them and reuses them. I won't swear that it's in the Raleigh HTs, but I know the ones in Chapel Hill carry it. Whole Foods should have it, too. It's pretty widely distributed in the Triangle. Food Lion may have it.
ETA: their website says that the HTs in Cameron Village and North Raleigh have it.
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