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Article: RAW DEAL THE RAW MILK TRADE IS QUIETLY FLOURISHING IN THE SOUTHWEST.(Taste)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2008
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Byline: CYNTHIA MILLER
One day a week, a woman on a small farm in Southern Colorado loads her pickup with goods she plans to sell across the border. To the unpracticed eye, the load bound for New Mexico looks innocent enough: eggs, lamb, milk. But the woman is wary when she peddles her unpasteurized milk -- some see it as illicit fare.
On her side of the state line, a law allows the woman to sell raw milk to members of a "herd share" she operates with her husband. Herd-share members have signed agreements to be cow co-owners. Their milk fees are payments toward a grass-fed Ayrshire.
When the woman carries raw milk into New Mexico, however, it ...