Got Milk?!

Milk lovers have heard a different drummer since daydreaming in a cradle.

Parents the world over give babies milk to make them grow up strong and healthy. If you have any doubts, just ask any momma horse, any momma elephant, any momma cat, and any momma mammal on earth! Milk is the preferred choice for happy healthy babies across the planet.

We owe a debt of gratitude to Louis Pasteur for discovering the process of “Pasteurization” to make our milk supply safe to drink. The process was initially used to keep wine and beer from turning sour. The process is used to ensure the adequate destruction of common pathogenic organisms like—Brucellosis, Diphtheria, Campylobacter, Staph auras, Klebsiella, Escheria coli, Listeria, Salmonella, Scarlet fever, Tuberculosis, Yersinia and other nasty bugs.

For generations, nomads and people on the farm have been drinking cow’s milk straight from the milk bucket to the cup. Warm and fresh, that’s how milk was served. On one occasion, in the Bible (the Book of Judges), Jael the wife of Heber, the Kenite, gave Sisera a drink of milk to refresh himself. This was kinda unusual because Sisera was an enemy of the Israelites and of God.

“He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk”. Judges 5:25

Her hospitality ended there, she then reached for a tent peg and a hammer. She struck Sisera, crashing his head and shattering and piercing his temple! He slumped and fell sprawled on the ground at her feet where he died. What a turn of events! Whatever happened to the milk of human kindness?! Sisera was a brutal man who met a brutal end. The Bible says the land then had peace for forty ears. Coincidence?

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