{"id":299,"date":"2011-03-31T07:57:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/how-many-raw-milk-drinkers.html"},"modified":"2011-03-31T07:57:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T11:57:24","slug":"how-many-raw-milk-drinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/how-many-raw-milk-drinkers.html","title":{"rendered":"How many raw milk drinkers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/12\/raw-milk.php\">\n<img align=\"right\" border=0\nwidth=\"262\" height=\"141\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/raw-milk.jpg\"><\/a>\nA lot more than most people think, or that the CDC has said much about.\n<p>\nSteve Bemis\n<a href=\"http:\/\/foodfreedom.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/30\/why-hide-serious-government-data-on-raw-milk-drinkers\/\">\ndigs into<\/a>\nthe\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/foodnet\/surveys\/FoodNetExposureAtlas0607_508.pdf\">\nPopulation Survey Atlas of Exposures, 2006-2007<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nIt was huge, conducting telephone interviews with 17,372 interviewees\nrepresenting a population of 45,883,553 people in the listed ten states,\nfrom May 2006 to April 2007.\n<\/blockquote>\nSo, how many raw milk drinkers?\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nBased on the CDC\u2019s own survey, the average number of people drinking\nraw milk in this 2006-2007 sampling was 3.0% of the population, ranging\nfrom 2.3% in Minnesota to 3.8% in Georgia.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat&#8217;s right, Georgia has the highest percentage of the states surveyed\n(California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota,\nNew Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Tennessee; see page 13).\nAnd out of 9 million people, 3.8% would be about 342,000 people.\nNot bad for a state where\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodsafetynews.com\/2010\/02\/bill-in-ga-house-would-legalize-raw-milk\/\">\nselling raw milk for human consumption is illegal.<\/a>\n<p>\nOr around 9 million total raw milk drinkers in the USA.\nWhy does this matter?\n<blockquote>\nFrom what I have read, the number of reported illnesses from raw milk,\nexcluding queso fresco and similar raw milk soft cheeses, could vary\nanywhere from approximately 50 to 150 per year over the last 15 years.\nThere were no deaths reported from consuming fluid raw milk over this\nentire period.  Using the 9 million raw milk drinker universe and 50-150\nannual illnesses, this suggests an annual raw milk illness rate in the\nrange of 0.001% to 0.002% of raw milk drinkers.\n<\/blockquote>\nAnd zero deaths.\nCompare that to 553 Salmonella deaths, out of 1,341,873 cases.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foodborne_illness#cite_note-CDC99-37\">\nMead PS et al. (1999). &#8220;Food-related illness and death in the United States&#8221;. Emerg Infect Dis 5 (5): 607\u201325. doi:10.3201\/eid0505.990502. PMC 2627714. PMID 10511517. http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ncidod\/EID\/vol5no5\/mead.htm.  10.3201\/eid0505.990502<\/a>\nYou&#8217;re much more likely to die and far more likely to get sick\nfrom eating in a restaurant than from drinking raw milk from\ngrass-fed cows.\nAnd all the widespread outbreaks of food-borne illness\nhave originated from factory farms.\nHm, maybe we should outlaw factory farms instead of raw milk.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot more than most people think, or that the CDC has said much about. Steve Bemis digs into the Population Survey Atlas of Exposures, 2006-2007 It was huge, conducting telephone interviews with 17,372 interviewees representing a population of 45,883,553 people in the listed ten states, from May 2006 to April 2007. So, how many [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,42,44,11],"tags":[912,911],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-food-and-drink","category-health","category-law","tag-cdc","tag-raw-milk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-4P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}