More Insanity!… Feeding Babies Raw Milk is Child Endangerment

 

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Daniel H. Gervich, M.D. recently wrote in the Des Moines Register that mothers who feed their babies fresh milk constitutes “child endangerment.”

Gervich’s article was in response to natural health
advocates, particularly Eileen Dannemann, who are pushing for House
Study Bill 585 that would legalize the sale of unpasteurized milk in
Iowa, which he opposes.

Gervich quotes a CDC study and uses alarmist language to make his case:

The risk of serious food-borne illness from unpasteurized
milk is 150 times greater than from pasteurized products. The risk of
illness requiring hospitalization for dehydrating dysentery, hemorrhagic
colitis, renal failure, ascending paralysis, Listeria meningitis,
septic shock and death is substantial, and the risks are far higher in
infants, children and pregnant women than in others.

The problem is that the CDC study that makes these claims of raw milk
being 150 times more likely to cause “serious food-borne illness” has
been proven to be a cherry-picked fraud.

“What consumers need to realize, first of all,” said Sally Fallon Morell,
president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, “is that the incidence of
foodborne illnesses from dairy products, whether pasteurized or not, is
extremely low.

For the 14-year period that the authors examined, there was an
average of 315 illnesses a year from all dairy products for which the
pasteurization status was known.

Of those, there was an average of 112 illnesses each year attributed
to all raw dairy products and 203 associated with pasteurized dairy
products.

“In comparison, there are almost 24,000 foodborne illnesses reported
each year on average. Whether pasteurized or not, dairy products are
simply not a high risk product.”

According to Gervich, 112 cases of illness per year nationwide
represents a “substantial” risk enough to constitute keeping the
consumption of fresh milk illegal and branding those who give it to
their children as unfit parents.

Eileen Dannemann, director of National Coalition of Organized
Women, wrote a scathing response to Dr. Gervich which can be read in its
entirety below:

Using the term ‘child endangerment’ is a loathsome low
blow! Dr. Gervich’s overused soundbite simply serves as a perfect
example of the establishment attempting to wreak fear in the hearts of
all parents that their children might be removed from their home if they
do not agree with the prevailing medical or nutritional model
consistent with medical, industry, government, stakeholder made up
standards or if God-forbid they should dare break the prevailing Iowa
law and access a neighbors farm fresh milk on the farm.

Does the Doctor, unschooled in nutrition, plan on calling Child
Protective Services for ‘child endangerment’ on those mothers who seek
unadulterated, un-homogenized, un-pasteurized farm fresh milk from a
sister species as a substantially equivalent substitute? Does he also
call the CPS when a mother refuses to vaccinate their child or when
independent (emphasis added) researchers show concern over the 41-fold
increase in spontaneous abortions and stillbirth reports after the
administration of the H1N1 vaccine in the pandemic season?

So the educated doctor doesn’t see much difference in the loss of ‘enzymes’ in pasteurized milk?

I suppose he doesn’t see the value in tonsils either which was the
standard establishment opinion in my day. God knows why He put enzymes
in the milk. Who should we listen to God or Dr. Gervich? Gervich says
enyzmes don’t make a difference.

And what about homogenization? The dairy doesn’t want to bother with
cleaning their spigots when the fat accumulates. So, they process the
milk. In layman’s language, in homogenizing milk the fat molecules and
the protein molecules are merged, as it were. So what happens, and why
so many children are allergic to milk is that the protein receptors
which are distinct from the fat receptors in the body are confused as
the fat molecules which are inherently larger are now reduced to merging
with the protein molecules and are pushed into the protein receptions
causing havoc. That is the layman’s version. And that is what Dr.
Gervich recommends for our children.

When goats are born, Dr. Gervich, the kid is as tiny as a newborn.
Therefore the milk molecules are more digestible to the human infant
than cows milk whose calves are born at the size of adult humans.

So, Dr. Gervich, certified infectious disease specialist, educated in
part no doubt by the opinions of quasi-military Epidemic Intelligent
Service arm of the CDC — what about the huge numbers of women who have
been put on psych drugs such as Effexor, Concerta, Paxil, Prozac, etc?
Would you think it is wise to urge these women to breast feed? Or do you
think that clean, safe, farm fresh milk, substantially equivalent
goat’s milk could be a better substituted than genetically modified
(GM)) infant soy formula or milk formula derived from dairy cows fed
with GMO waste product (Distillers Grain) of the Ethanol industry, a
feed that was banned in New York because the milk produced was ‘swill’?

Perhaps since you have put yourself as a nutritional authority and
are against House Study Bill 585 that next year you might consider
giving us (stupid Iowa women) — those of us who are blatantly
endangering our children — a prescription for raw milk. We promise we
will be careful to label it in our refrigerator, as suggested by Iowa
City representative Vicky Lensing so that, God forbid, Grandma doesn’t
drink it by accident. With your help, we can put farm fresh milk and
cannabis in the same category.

 

March 5, 2012 – posted at IntelHub

 

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