Which is more important?

[rjruiz_415]

I do not have access to a farm, so I have to get whatever the store has. I have found yummy organic cheddar cheese, and yummy raw cheddar cheese . But we are not fans of the organic raw option... which one would you be purchasing? Is it more important to be buying raw, or organic?

[cristeen]

Since most of the time i'm melting the cheese, i'm more concerned w the organic/feed. We actually eat a fair bit of Tillamook which is not organic but grassfed, NZ and Irish cheeses, which are usually pastured also.

[howdeepistheocean]

I always prefer raw over organic, (unless cooking with it of course) because I think pasteurizing destroys so many good enzymes. Also, organic only means that their feed was organic, they still could be eating soy and lots of grain, as well as not having access to pasture.

  I can't afford organic goat feed for my goats, (it would be about 4x as much) but still believe that my raw grass/hay fed goat milk is a lot healthier than pasteurized organic milk. just my opinion..

[Magelet]

I said other. I think grass-fed is most important (which isn't to say that most of my cheese is grass-fed, I buy whatever cheese looks and tastes good and fits my budget at the cheese shop, mostly without knowing if it is grass-fed, and since not advertised as such, I can assume not raw and not organic. (real cheese only, no fake stuff).

If your melting it, get organic, if it's raw, then the raw is great if you can, but since many cheeses are traditionally heated in making it, I don't feel very strongly that it MUST be raw.

[Holiztic]

At Trader Joe's there is raw cheddar, grass-fed cheddar, or organic cheddar.  Drives me nuts. I can get raw, organic, grass-fed from a farm, but we don't like it! So I alternate (and we don't eat much anyway, 1/2 pound a month maybe.