Yesterday we purchased a share in a dairy cow herd in our area (well, a half hour away). See, raw milk is illegal to sell in most of the states here in the US, but in some states you can purchase a share of a cow herd and pick up milk every week, because it is ok to drink unpasteurized milk from your own animals. That’s the legal argument, anyways. We visited the farm and the animals seemed well taken care of and everything seemed clean and well run.

I’ve been drinking the unhomogenized raw milk you can buy at the store for awhile, and it’s not much different from that – a little stronger tasting, and obviously a lot fresher since it the cow was milked that day or the day before.

The government, of course, knows better than I do what to put in my body, and I am taking my life into my own hands, and that is why it is illegal most places. I probably should stick to things like bagged lettuce from California, or tomatoes from (somewhere) to keep myself healthy…