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Visit Real Milk
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websites for more detailed information about real milk.

Do you remember (or have you at least heard about) when milk was delivered fresh to your doorstep every morning from the cows living on the farm down the street?  Those cows grazed in fields of healthy grass touched only by cows' hooves and mouths and farmers' feet.

Nowadays, most people only know about the processed milk we buy in the stores, which usually comes from cows kept in tiny pens, routinely given antibiotics to keep from getting sick and growth hormones to increase milk production, fed corn meal from the big farm corporations growing acres and acres of corn, which cows' stomachs don't digest very well.  This is milk that isn't really milk any longer, at least not the way nature intended.

Mi Milk Maidens works together with a local farm to provide members with milk directly from their cows through a cooperative membership program.  Their cows are treated humanely, grazed in fields untouched by chemicals, and aren't fed growth hormones or routine antibiotics.  We have delivery sites throughout the greater Kalamazoo area where members pick up their milk.

There is a wonderful online article called "The Real McCoy", written by a fresh milk consumer living in Michigan.  She brings together lots of information (including links to more info) about why groups like ours got started, and why we have taken on this mission that was started by our friends with our farmer more than four years ago.

Many of our members have personally experienced health benefits through drinking fresh milk, including some who have suffered lactose intolerance in the past, but who now enjoy their fresh milk with none of the physical problems they previously suffered when they tried drinking store-bought, pasteurized milk.  Among other things, studies have shown increased health benefits of drinking milk from grass-fed cows, including an increase in the amount of CLA ("conjugated linoleic acid") and Omega 3's.  You can read more about this on the Eat Wild website.  Please visit our Info & Links page for links to more information about all sides of the raw milk story, plus book recommendations and links to online discussion groups.