EP36: The Truth About Raw Milk With Mark McAfee

Mark is the founder and CEO of McAfee Farms and Organic Pastures Dairy Company. He is pre-med trained, a retired Paramedic and a Health Department medical educator. Mark has lectured on Raw Milk production, food safety, and nutrition at Stanford Medical School, Rutgers University, 30 different states and internationally. He is certified in HACCP management from Chapman University and has developed and implemented award winning Food Safety Plans including Raw Milk Risk Analysis & Management Plans (“RAMP”) and the 1997 Odwalla Apple Juice “Field HACCP”.

As you can see, food safety is one of Mark's specialties which made for a truly enlightening conversation. Here are some of the juicy tidbits you'll walk away with:

• Why Mark became a dairy farmer
• How a raw milk company became the #4 best selling organic brand in America
• Why raw, grass fed milk is VERY different than conventional milk
• How pasteurization creates an allergic product
• What pasteurization kills besides bad bugs
• Whether or not raw, grass fed milk IS safe
• How we know our ancestors consumed milk and cheese
• The profound, research-based benefits of raw grass fed dairy
• And much more