Milk

Hello Liza,

I am not too sure myself. I need to verify.
However, common sense suggests that you buy from a local dairy farmer if that's
possible.

Maybe, you can verify from the Internet.
I will also check if I can find some recommendations from acharyas if any.

Jay

You can buy from local milk dairy or organic milk mataji.

Hare Krishna
Srinivas Kumar

HI

I like this to know also.. i dont know with the milk you ca buy in supermarket. I buy at least biologic milk but still i have doubts about this milk. like to know why its should be bad and where i can find better milk( I dont have a cow at home!)
ciao haribol

Hi Suzanne,

You can try to find a small local farm that treats their cows well. If you buy your milk directly from a farm it will probably be raw (unpasteurized). Some people think that raw milk is healthier and some think that it has to be pasteurized in order to get rid of bad bacteria, but in the process it also kills good bacteria.

I live in Maryland, US and cannot find a local dairy farm that sells milk to people directly because it is against the law to buy raw milk in Maryland. It may be different where you live.

I would just like to buy milk from a local dairy farm that treats their cows well. Factory farms in the US are terrible! It would be nice if ISKCON could sell milk because we know how they are treating their cows.

I hope this helped, if you are worried about your health I would try to buy organic.

Hare Krishna
Liza

Haribol Liza and everybody,

I only know the situation in the Netherlands, the biological milk which we can buy in the supermarket here comes from cows where the horns been cut off, so they are mistreated but not as bad as normal milk cows. The only brand here where the cows get to keep their horns is called Demeter. You could write letter to several dairy brands in your state to inform about this.
Milk straight from the cow would be best, but most farmers just sell the milk in big quantities ( at least 50 liter is my guess), too bad thats illegal in Maryland.

Hope you will find nice milk soon,

Haribol

HARE KRISHNA
to avoid this thing we have t build a community where we maintain our own cows & from there we can get milk.

Hare krishna ....actually we should purchase milk! what ever is practical ,however even the abused cow benefits when you take its milk is offered to sri krishna.The unique nature of devotional service is that the cow will get a further opportunity to serve krishna again in its ''next body to serve'' as a result of its present service.The main thing is that spiritual life is dependent on us having fine brain tissue to infact understand krishna's sublime vision for us individually and collectively.Krishna's pastimes are actually based on taking his unique flavour of prasadam .Which is essentially ghee,milk,yoghurt,butter,....dairy product based.Because he especially likes such food and is pleased when you offer these particular foods to him with love....bhakti ,we progress spiritually.When one is attempting to become a ''vegan'' and serve krishna .....one thinks he ''knows better than the guru''....because srila Prabhupada was not a vegan...... and fails to progress as a direct result.