Is goat milk better than cow milk? Here’s a list of health benefits

you can get it at walmart or just about any grocery store. walmart carries it around the teas, creams, and such in a 12-0z (i think) can.

“Goat’s milk is a great option for people who want to lose weight. It has less fat, but still maintains the high levels of proteins and essential amino acids found in cow’s milk.”

Fat doesn’t make you fat.

Great post! I’ve been telling people about the benefits of goat milk for years now. But nobody seems to believe me, they usually just respond with something like, “Goat milk? Yuck!”

I’m a big fan of goat milk, and have recently stopped drinking raw cow milk and started sticking to goat milk. That said, I have to take issue with a couple things. For one thing, I consider the lower fat content a drawback of switching to goat milk, not an advantage. If I can get organic, grass-fed cream that isn’t ultra-pasteurized, I add a dash of it to my goat milk to increase the fat content. Another thing – why all the talk about the toxins related to cows? The correct comparison is organic, free-range, grass-fed goat milk to organic, free-range, grass-fed cow milk, not the chemistry sets sold in the grocery store.

Something to watch out for – if you look in your grocery store for goat milk, it’s usually ultra-pasteurized, which is even worse than pasteurized milk. You have to use the Weston Price website to find good raw sources.

Here’s another advantage of goat milk over cow, especially if your sources are hard to get to – it freezes much better. If you freeze cow milk, then thaw it, it often comes out thin, with chunks of butter floating in it. Goat milk doesn’t do that.

Hi Dr. Group –
Question: my dog has mandibular osteosarcoma (bone cancer of the jaw) and is on a raw diet + raw goat milk (recommended by his holistic vet).

He is taking a cancer supplement called “Artemisinin” = Artemisia annua (also called “sweet wormwood”). Artemisinin is not to be given with food that contains iron (e.g. meats), or within 4 hours of eating ferrous food.

As I understand it, one component of raw goat milk is Lactoferrin, which binds to iron, hence making it unavailable for germs. If that is correct, would it not interfere with aforementioned cancer supplement?

I am a member of a cancer blog, and offered information on raw goat milk given to dogs affected with different kind of cancers. Now, we are all trying to find out if certain components of foods or medications/supplements are interfering with each other or not. We have concerns if it is advisable to combine raw goat milk with Artemisinin.

Can you perhaps help to clarify our concerns?

Thank you for your help.
Petra

Eiji Fuller,

Are you giving your son Pastuerized goat milk or raw? I am boiling it at home. Cant bring myself to giver her raw milk

i never realised goat is better than cow’s milk and i heard from my old folks goat is good for sick patient.Now,i’ll go for a goat milk that has good benefits and healthier.

a goat provides all the necassities you’ll ever need in life. a goat can provide milk, friendship, & eventually meat (humanely, of course)

Goats have feelings, too! Be wise on how you get your milk.

if the goat milk you drink tastes bad then get it from another source, it is what they are fed mostly but breed plays into it as well. we run Nigerian Dwarfs and the milk is sweet. there is no ‘ goaty’ flavor. if they are your goats, then adding baking soda to the feed helps the flavor alot.feeding alfalfa or letting them free graze can affect the flavor tremendously. especially eating weeds. Good luck.

I’ve been drinking goats milk for the last few years due to finding out about type A cows…I find that in the USA goats milk is much more expense then cow’s milk, here in England however it’s a much fairer price and we also have goat butter, something I couldn’t find in the US at all. Thanks for posting.

In Australia, GMO feed, hormones and drugs are banned.It is physically impossible to force a cow to produce more milk with drugs and hormones . She can not produce anymore milk than her body will allow.

why is soft goat cheese sour(tangy)??? Is it better as probiotic than hard goat cheese???

I’m in Canada and can find goat butter. Liberte (a quebec company) makes it – I think they distribute to the USA as well.

good ..informative

Can you order goats milk from England

Haven’t seen any research and you’ll want to verify yourself but a quick Google search has found a few resources that suggest it can be just as good for them as it is for you.

Hi,

This is a wonderful article thank you.

My daughter will be 14 months, on 3 April. She has never in her
life eaten any form of solid food. We chose not to feed her ‘grown-up’ food. No baby cereal, fruit, veg, purity,
chips, sweets…..You name any type of food, and she has NEVER eaten it.
I have been exclusive breastfeeding her for the first 6 months
of her life. Thereafter, she has only ever had fresh goats milk. That’s it!
She drinks between 1.5 and 2 Liters of milk per day. We still do
not give her any water, as a baby who only drinks breast or goats milk, does not need water. In fact, the water is not good for them when living of fresh (healthy-natural-mommy-breast) or goat’s milk.

Goat’s milk is a wonderful food source for babies and contains
all the required nutrition a baby needs. It is even rich in iron.
The only time I will add a sachet of SPATONE-pure iron water to
her milk, is when she is teething, which helps with the inflamed gums.

She sleeps though the night, every night and has 2 x 2 hour naps
every day. Her physical and mental development is immaculate and advanced.

We are intending to keep her on this wonderful ‘goats milk only’ diet for the first 24 months, before slowly introducing solid foods.

I don’t know of anyone else who is following this method on our planet, however, it works like a bomb and I wish for parents to realize what a perfect and incredible source of food goats milk truly is.

Thank you for the opportunity to share my experience about this magical food.

Charlene
South Africa

The term FREE RANGE means Nothing! It is a SCAM on the people! I just watched a documentary that showed a company claiming free range, and there was very little difference between standard treatment to the animals v.s. free range. They were still all sickly and no where to roam as they would like us all to believe!

I’m intrigued by your use of the term “fairer price”. In the US big dairies are typically government subsidized while small farm operations bear all of the costs themselves. Grocery stores also sell milk as a “loss leader”, making the final price to the consumer unrealistically low. Our goat milk herd share members are happy to pay the extra cost for our product because they understand the high cost of feed and it’s worth it to them knowing exactly where it came from.

It isn’t; this stems from the misunderstanding about heating the milk to kill the pathogens that naturally come out with the milk (pasteurizing), which can make people nasty sick. Even keeping an animal in the cleanest environment doesn’t change that their udders are right next to their food exit.

Goat’s milk has all the nutrition for a baby goat, not a baby human. Teeth come in as the body is ready for solid food; pureed vegetables and grains are not “grown-up” food, they’re step-up foods in preparation for coming off milk.

Less fat, (sugars, carbs etc) = CALORIES, Fatty acids are good minerals that aid in weight loss if consumed properly (examples found in Fish Oil, CLA, Avocado etc..) Do some research before you jump to conclusions. Plus not to mentioned the advantages bacteria in goat milk has in digestion vs Cow Milk. Maybe the specific brand you buy has some fillers to mask the unique taste goat milk offers thus making it more fattening if you are comparing it to regular Milk.

I have rheumatoid arthritis and when I would drink cows milk from the store I would have bad flareups to the point where I would be unable to walk so even though I love milk I had to quit drinking it util someone told me raw milk would cause flair ups and I couldn’t find raw cows milk but I am able to find raw goats milk. I drink almost 2 gallons a week and have not had bad flareups since. Thanks to the person that told my husband about it I am now able to drink my milk that I love so much.

If you are still interested in selling, i am interested in buying

Quite rich of you to ask @tinapusse:disqus to do her research when in fact you should be doing some! Goat’s milk has more fat than cow’s milk — one cup has 10 g vs. 8 g in cow’s — that’s a known fact. You can check on any reputable site. This article is half unscientific nonsense or plain false.

Also, fatty acids are not “minerals”. Fatty acids are the building blocks of fats, in the same way that amino acids are building blocks of proteins. There are harmful fatty acids, and then there are beneficial ones. Fatty acids does not mean something beneficial by default.

As for the bacteria, that’s because a lot of goat milk is drunk raw. If you have raw cow’s milk, it will also have beneficial bacteria. And if you have pasteurized goat’s milk, there will be no beneficial bacteria just as in commercial cow’s milk.

Bit of a Digression.

The camel milk is known to be even better nutritionally than cow, buffalo, sheep and goat milk. It is a rich source of proteins with potential antimicrobial. It contains fewer short-chained fatty acids, high concentrations of linoleic acid which are essential for human nutrition. It has more fat and protein and much lower Cholesterol than cow or goat milk. It has a high vitamin, mineral and immuno-globin content, three times higher vitamin C and 10 times higher iron and lower lactose. It is high in unsaturated fatty acids and B vitamins and higher levels of potassium, magnesium, iron, copper, manganese, sodium and zinc. (Abstract from Wikipedia: Camel Milk).

It is an acquired taste. I drank it fresh on few occasions while I was in Saudi Arabia. It is bit sweeter than cow’s milk, bit saltier and has an earthy taste. It is available in the US through Desert Farms, run by Amish communities in the mid-west, around 4 to 5 times more expensive than cow’s milk.

Contrary to popular belief, cows are not given growth hormones. Cows are given antibiotics only when they are very sick (it would be inhumane not to treat them). However, those cows are quarantined until the antibiotics are completely out of their system. Milk is stringently tested before it is even put on a truck. If there is even a minute amount of antibiotics in a tank of milk, the entire tank is dumped and the dairy farmer loses a lot of money. So, there is not antibiotics in conventional milk. (Trust me, dairy farmers do not want to lose money…most of them are already losing money because they cannot set their own prices!)
Also, I can say that organic milk (and even goat’s milk) could also contain GMOs because even though a cow or goat may eat non-GMO feed, they could still eat GMO grasses. Unfortunately, Monsanto genetically engineers more seeds than I can count (they bought the patents for seeds so they can profit from a God-given resource).
Cows are rarely mistreated. It is likely that goats are also occasionally mistreated). Just know that humans are not perfect, but most care for animals properly and would report abuse when witnessed. All employees of a dairy farm are trained to report animal cruelty and all humane treatment of the animals (per the FDA).
If a cow gets mastitis (goats and humans get it, too), they are taken out of milk production and treated…then quarantined if they needed antibiotics. Cows are not milked if they have mastitis! Think about it, this would not be profitable to a farmer to do so. Milk is screened for pus and blood…all milk in a tank would be dumped and the farmer would lose a bunch of money. Also, the cow would be useless to the farmer…this is just not done. Sometimes animals get sick (just as people do), it just happens. The cows are treated well and enjoy being milked.
I am not a dairy farmer. I was raised on a 4,000+ fourth generation dairy farm, so I know firsthand what I am talking about. Scaring people about cow milk quality and painting farmers so negatively is negligent, especially when you only give information that is neither valid nor reliable.
Please do your research by actually going to and working with dairy farmers.
Don’t believe the hype. If you have a cow milk allergy, don’t drink it. I gave my daughter raw, organic goats milk and she had diarrhea and vomited profusely. Goats milk (just as cow milk) is not for everyone.

Oh my god there’s talk on fats let’s be honest here goats milk is far more healthy and is brilliant for asthma suffers.

I am all for goats milk, I do quite enjoy it. However pertaining to the environmental section of this site, goats are much more detramemtal to the environment than cattle. When grazed right, cattle can benefit land dramatically. When grazed wrong they still do not do the damage goats do. Through history, evidence of goats being the last grazing animal before desertification comes up again and again. I love goats, however, my future farm will not have them because of the damage they do. Cattle however will be used as allies in my permaculture polyculture