- California has "Happy Cows," or so we are told
by the California Milk Board's propaganda machine.
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- http://www.realcaliforniacheese.com
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- The latest state-by-state pus cell count, as reported
in the April 10, 2004 issue of Hoard's Dairyman, the "National Dairy
Farm Magazine," (page 268) reveals that the number of pus cells in
milk from California's unhappily diseased "Happy Cows" has soared
to a new heights. In 2002, the average liter of California milk contained
298 million pus cells. In 2003, the average liter of California milk contained
11 million more pus cells than in 2002.
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- When pus cell counts increase, that is a sign of diseased
and stressed cows, not happy cows.
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- Good news for Wisconsin's cheeseheads. Their pus cell
count has been reduced from an average of 297 million to 286 million.
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- What other states are now drinking unhealthier milk?
California did not suffer the greatest increase. Here are the top three
loser states and their per liter pus cell increases:
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- Alabama (73 million more pus cells per average liter)
- Florida (85 million more pus cells per average liter)
- Nevada (87 million more pus cells per average liter)
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- The "Notmilk Trying Harder Award" goes to:
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- Oklahoma (127 million less pus cells per liter)
- Arkansas (99 million less pus cells per liter)
- South Dakota (73 million less pus cells per liter)
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- The vilest most putrid pus-filled milk:
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- By far, Florida, with an average of 633 million pus cells
per liter, an increase of nearly 16 percent over 2002. Yeech!
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- The cleanest milk:
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- Montana (a mere 236 million pus cells per average liter)
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- America has less stringent standards than Europe and
Canada. If America adopted the healthier standards (no more than 400 million
pus cells per liter, instead of our allowable 750 million standard), only
two states would be permitted to sell their milk every day of the week:
Montana and Washington. All other states exceed the magic (arbitrary) 400
million pus cells per liter in 15% or more of the tests.
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- Pus in milk? A dairy cow filters ten thousand quarts
of blood through her udder each day and uses dead white blood cells (somatic
cells) to manufacture her milk. These dead cells are pus cells. Dairy scientists
are aware that when one quart of milk is tainted with 400 million or more
pus cells, some 35% of the milking cows in the herd are infected with mastitis.
Udders bleed and discharge bacteria, mucus, and blood into milk.
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- Number of pus cells Per Liter of Milk in Your State:
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- STATE__2002_____ 2003____
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- AL - 444,000,000 517,000,OOO
- AZ - 360,000,000 353,000,OOO
- AR - 486,000,000 387,000,OOO
- CA - 298,000,000 309,000,OOO
- CO - 312,000,000 296,000,OOO
- CT - 310,000,000 304,000,OOO
- DE - 386,000,000 392,000,OOO
- FL - 548,000,000 633,000,OOO
- GA - 407,000,000 479,000,OOO
- ID - 320,000,000 307,000,OOO
- IL - 322,000,000 314,000,OOO
- IN - 343,000,000 375,000,OOO
- IA - 333,000,000 316,000,OOO
- KS - 476,000,000 372,000,OOO
- KY - 413,000,000 419,000,OOO
- LA - 479,000,000 498,000,OOO
- ME - 290,000,000 282,000,OOO
- MD - 351,000,000 345,000,OOO
- MA - 308,000,000 316,000,OOO
- MI - 287,000,000 313,000,OOO
- MN - 420,000,000 353,000,OOO
- MS - 442,000,000 480,000,OOO
- MO - 437,000,000 395,000,OOO
- MT - 248,000,000 236,000,OOO
- NE - 443,000,000 382,000,OOO
- NV - 330,000,000 417,000,OOO
- NH - 299,000,000 263,000,OOO
- NJ - 339,000,000 365,000,OOO
- NM - 311,000,000 311,000,OOO
- NY - 280,000,000 285,000,OOO
- NC - 364,000,000 414,000,OOO
- ND - 344,000,000 287,000,OOO
- OH - 327,000,000 327,000,OOO
- OK - 483,000,000 356,000,OOO
- OR - 286,000,000 260,000,OOO
- PA - 317,000,000 346,000,OOO
- RI - 206,000,000 256,000,OOO
- SC - 404,000,000 448,000,OOO
- SD - 459,000,000 386,000,OOO
- TN - 413,000,000 476,000,OOO
- TX - 342,000,000 364,000,OOO
- UT - 284,000,000 262,000,OOO
- VT - 302,000,000 280,000,OOO
- VA - 333,000,000 374,000,OOO
- WA - 275,000,000 253,000,OOO
- WV - 422,000,000 395,000,OOO
- WI - 297,000,000 286,000,OOO
- WY - 341,000,000 289,000,OOO
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- Robert Cohen
- http://www.notmilk.com
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