Mountain View Organic are a food marketing company with high flown rhetoric about ‘kind farming and good health practices”. Mountain View Organic Dairy in Australia uses The Organic Empire as one of their channels to market their ‘bath milk’. But On Dec. 11, the Herald-Sun’s tabloid front page headline screams out that Mountain View were selling killer milk.
‘Bath milk’ is unfit for human consumption because it has not been given the mild heat safety promoting treatment known as Pasteurisation. Sure, pasteurised milk is ‘processed’, but its a process that makes milk safer by killing dangerous germs such deadly pathogenic E. coli bacteria that cows can carry in their intestines without showing any symptoms.
At the Mountain View website they offered bath-milk milk for sale as if it were a food product. No emphasis at all in this webpage on the absolute need to never consume ‘bath milk’ as if it were suitable as food. Furthermore, ‘bath milk’ is offered for sale next to food products.
The Mountain View Farm goes in for cow herd-sharing, which is a fancy arrangement to subvert a legal prohibition in Victoria that forbids the selling of raw (unpasteurised) milk. Herd-sharers clients of Mountain View pay to own the cows, but get their raw unprocessed milk free, because sale of such milk is illegal for safety reasons.
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Mountain View Organic Dairy was implicated as the connection between a cluster of 5 pathogenic E. coli infections that included several serious cases of life threatening HUS disease and one death of a three year old child.
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