Cow milk, especially the cow milk found on your grocers' shelves, can certainly be promlematic. Besides the sensitivities, there are potential contamination with growth hormones, antibiotics, pesticides and herbicides.

And then there's the cruel and inhumane way the cows are treated at commercial dairy operations.

One option might be goat milk - especially raw organic goat milk, which is far healthier and better tasting than cow milk and which many people who are sensitive to cow milk are able to tolerate much better.

Here is what Dr. Al Sears has to say:

From: http://www.askdrsears.com/html/3/t032400.asp

"Unlike cow's milk, goat's milk does not contain agglutinin. As a result, the fat globules in goat's milk do not cluster together, making them easier to digest. Like cow's milk, goat's milk is low in essential fatty acids, because goats also have EFA-destroying bacteria in their ruminant stomachs. Yet, goat milk is reported to contain more of the essential fatty acids linoleic and arachnodonic acids, in addition to a higher proportion of short-chain and medium-chain fatty acids. These are easier for intestinal enzymes to digest.

Different protein . Goat milk protein forms a softer curd (the term given to the protein clumps that are formed by the action of your stomach acid on the protein), which makes the protein more easily and rapidly digestible. Theoretically, this more rapid transit through the stomach could be an advantage to infants and children who regurgitate cow's milk easily.

Goat's milk may also have advantages when it comes to allergies. Goat's milk contains only trace amounts of an allergenic case protein, alpha-S1, found in cow's milk. Goat's milk casein is more similar to human milk, yet cow's milk and goat's milk contain similar levels of the other allergenic protein, beta lactoglobulin. Scientific studies have not found a decreased incidence of allergy with goat's milk, but here is another situation where mothers' observations and scientific studies are at odds with one another. Some mothers are certain that their child tolerates goat's milk better than cow's milk, and mothers are more sensitive to children's reactions than scientific studies.
Less lactose. Goat's milk contains slightly lower levels of lactose (4.1 percent versus 4.7 percent in cow's milk), which may be a small advantage in lactose-intolerant persons.

Different minerals. Although the mineral content of goat's milk and cow's milk is generally similar, goat's milk contains 13 percent more calcium, 25 percent more vitamin B-6, 47 percent more vitamin A, 134 percent more potassium, and three times more niacin. It is also four times highigher in copper. Goat's milk also contains 27 percent more of the antioxidant selenium than cow's milk. Cow's milk contains five times as much vitamin B-12 as goat's milk and ten times as much folic acid (12 mcg. in cow's milk versus 1 mcg. for goat's milk per eight ounces with an RDA of 75-100 mcg. for children). The fact that goat's milk contains less than ten percent of the amount of folic acid contained in cow's milk means that it must be fortified with folic acid in order to be adequate as a formula or milk substitute for infants and toddlers, and popular brands of goat's milk may advertise "fortified with folic acid" on the carton."

Also lots of info at: http://www.goatworld.com/articles/whygoatmilk.shtml.

In addition, check out the article on our website that Luella May wrote a few years ago.

"The Many Health Benefits of Goat’s Milk"
http://www.tbyil.com/Goats_Milk.htm

We love our raw goat milk!