Feta Cheese Made From Raw Milk Has Natural Anti-food-poisoning Properties (Science Daily)

[NashVegas]

Eating Feta cheese made from raw milk in small seaside tavernas when you are on holiday in Greece could be a good way to combat food poisoning, according to researchers speaking April 3, 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting being held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

"We were able to isolate lactic acid bacteria found in raw sheep milk from small farms in Macedonia, northern Greece. Several of these friendly bacteria naturally produce antibiotics that killed off dangerous food-poisoning bacteria like Listeria," says Panagiotis Chanos, a researcher from the University of Lincoln. "Interestingly, we identified these friendly bacteria as enterococci, more commonly recognised as virulent and/or antibiotic resistant bacteria in hospitals. We found some strains could produce up to three different natural substances to fight different food pathogens."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080402194410.htm

Last year I bought some contraband raw milk. Felt like an outlaw!

[MADem]

1. And it's so FRICKIN DELICIOUS, too! nt

[havocmom]

2. Husband's favorite blue is made with raw milk and DHS won't allow its import since 9/11

Homeland Security: keeping us safe from real foods.

[NashVegas]

3. Imported Raw Milk Foods

Have to be a certain # of months old, IIRC.

[havocmom]

6. The cheese is well aged in nice little caves, like it has been for generations

Shortly after the ban, lots of new triple creme blues started appearing in US. Protectionism, not protecting the welfare of the people. Never had any trouble getting this blue in until a good 18 months after 9-11, but 9-11 is the excuse give when we dig for reasons. :shrug:

9-11 has become a mighty big hook to hang anything corporations want and can't really explain to the population.

[kestrel91316]

4. I am confused. First he says they are "lactic acid bacteria"

(known as lactobacilli) and then he says they are "enterococcus".

They are EITHER a Lactobacillus species or they are an Enterococcus species. They cannot be both at the same time, as those are two different genuses of bacteria. It's like saying something is a horse, and then saying it is a bird, or worse yet a potato. Can't be both.

Sigh. Probably just one more example of incompetent journalism.....

[suffragette]

14. Maybe it's the platypus of cheeses

;-)

[Trillo]

15. I doubt if it's incompetence.

TPTB want us to be stupid and confused. The universities want money for education. If people learned to read, and then could read the newspapers and became educated on their own, why would people pay more for higher education?

OTOH, if this passes for science news, perhaps the university degree isn't worth the paper its printed on.

I was trying to understand how parmesean cheese (one of my favorites) was made the other day, and found they too prefer to use raw milk. I thought it odd that it's nearly impossible to buy raw milk, I'm sure I read it had been made illegal some years ago in our state, but apparantly some cheese manufacturers still obtain it.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=pasteurized+milk+cheeze&btnG=Search

Perhaps one reason milk is pasteurized is to prevent consumers from buying raw milk to make their own premium cheeses, after all, that would be bad for business.

[Javaman]

5. My wife and I get raw milk from a local farm every two weeks.

been doing so for about the past 4 months.

Great stuff. people don't know what they are missing.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. I am not buying it

I need a grant so that I can go to Greece and research this myself :)

on edit: Oh, and feta cheese rocks.

[alfredo]

8. On a pizza crust put sliced onion, tomatoes, garlic, Basil, black pepper,

olive oil and Feta Cheese. Bake at 425 for 7 to 10 minutes.

[bdamomma]

10. try this topping

(thawed out) leaf spinach and (squeeze excess water out), olives, chopped pepperoni, and feta cheese sprinkle with some lemon juice and pop it in the oven, my 12 yr. old daughter's make it. Delicious!!!

[alfredo]

12. That does sound very tasty.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. you just made me really hungry. nt

[noonwitch]

9. Then my spanokotopita is health food!

since feta is an important ingredient!

[zorahopkins]

13. You Be Da Man Who Mashed The Feta Cheese....

You be da man who mashed the feta cheese:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfEE_nYehZ8&feature=related

@ 0:44

[knitter4democracy]

16. I'd always heard that at church, so I guess they were right.

Of course, Greeks can go on and on about how their food, language, and culture are always better. ;) Sometimes I miss being in a Greek church now that we're in the Russian Orthodox Church, but we still have enough Macedonians that we have fun.