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Showing posts with label dr. Mercola on raw milk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dr. Mercola on raw milk. Show all posts
The War on Raw: Your nanny state boils the milk, but you don’t have to drink it
Michael Schmidt, Raw Milk Folk-Hero
“It’s banned in Canada and 18 US states, but it’s legal in Europe and always has been. Three in California were recently arrested for selling it. In other states, everyone from local police to the FDA take it upon themselves to eradicate it, even where laws permit its production and sale.'
'Is raw milk really the pathogen-loaded drink of insanity that the mainstream media has made it out to be? Of course not. Is there any reason to prefer it over pasteurized milk? Well, people wouldn’t be going to jail in their determination to consume and sell it if there wasn’t.
We tend to think of pasteurized milk as the norm, but really, it’s only a recent phenomenon. The practice of pasteurization began around the period of industrialization in the US – the late 1900s and early 20th century. Around this time, farmers quit their livelihoods in mass numbers to take jobs in the cities.'
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“Milk War” documentary on Michael Schmidt and raw milk is nominated for James Beard Foundation TV Special / Documentary award for ichannel
'Milk War was written and directed by award-winning journalist Kevin O’Keefe, and produced by Declan O’Driscoll. Gemini Award-winning actor Colm Feore narrates. It made its world television premiere on ichannel, Canada’s political and social issues network, on Sept. 26, 2010.
The film tells the story of Ontario dairy farmer Michael Schmidt’s battle with government authorities for the right to distribute unpasteurized milk, a practice outlawed in Canada since 1991. His opposition to the raw milk ban led to a high-profile court case and touched off vigorous public debate on a question of basic freedoms: should government have the right to decide what we, and our families, are allowed to eat?'
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Raw milk vending machines in Europe
“Having grown up on a dairy farm and having operated one myself, I’ve been drinking raw milk most of my life. It’s not automatic that raw milk is a safe product. It’s the way the animals are husbanded and how the milk is handled that make it safe or not. That’s why public authorities should stop forcing the production and trade underground. Raw milk production and trade should be open and above board, subject to common sense regulations and testing. In more sensible nations, you can buy living milk with no impediment, and you can buy it direct from the farmer—good for him, good for you. Photos: A milk vending machine in France. Organic raw milk offered by the farmer to customers any time of day, any day of the week.”
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The black market for raw milk keeps growing in Canada — CTV Edmonton
‘A dark shadow is being cast over the food that gives us life. CTV News has uncovered a growing underground of illegal, unpasteurized milk.
“What we’re providing is milk at its purest,” says one raw milk farmer, who only agreed to be interviewed if his identity is concealed.
According to a government document, a quarter of a million Canadians drink unpasteurized milk. The farmer interviewed by CTV News says the demand is high. Some customers travel more than 200 kilometres to buy his illegal milk.'
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Farmer-consumer group challenges FDA authority to ban interstate raw-milk sales
'The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is taking on the Big Enchilada in the raw milk war: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s prohibition on interstate shipment of raw milk.
The FTCLDF filed suit over the weekend in U.S. District court against FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg, and the secretary of the FDA’s parent agency, Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, challenging the constitutionality of the agency’s prohibition, enacted in 1987.
It filed the suit on behalf of consumers and a farmer from six different states; the consumers all travel from states where raw milk sales are illegal to buy it in states where it’s allowed for sale and the farmer sells to out-of-state consumers.'
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FDA Raids Amish Farm for Raw Milk
Beware! Amish Raw Milk Terrorists Threaten USA...'The FDA Gestapo's real mission is to stomp out 'Health Freedom' in America -- under the guise of 'PROTECTION' and 'SAFETY,' of course. In reality the FDA operates as a fascist, 'profit-protection-racket' for Big Pharma and Big Agribusiness.'
--Health Maven
'The FDA will spare no one in their zealous protection of your safety. Apparently, those seemingly harmless Amish people are really dangerous. They must be. What other reason could there be for raiding an Amish farm for the—Gulp! Horrible crime of raw milk! Run for the hills! Those Amish folk just may have the ultimate weapon.'
''Joking aside, the FDA really did try to raid an Amish farm for raw dairy. Rather than retelling the tale, here it is as first told by Deborah Stockton:
'In what used to be a free country it seems the FDA even want the Amish to stop drinking raw milk. In a total disregard for his health freedom, agents of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came onto the property of Amish farmer Dan Allgyer, without permission, claiming to be conducting an investigation gents Joshua Schafer and Deborah Haney, from the Delaware FDA office, drove past Allgyer’s "No Trespassing" signs and up his driveway almost to his barn, where Allgyer happened to be outside.
'Allgyer approached the car, the agents got out and Allgyer asked them why they were there. They produced a piece of paper, asked Allgyer if he was Dan Allgyer, which Allgyer confirmed, asked him his middle initial and phone number, entered the information on the paper, told Allgyer they were there to do an inspection and started reading the paper to him, saying it gave them jurisdiction to be there.'
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The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights
Raw milk is illegal!
'Food regulation is one of the most important issues consumers face today. And for people who are concerned with where their food comes from (and how it got there), milk is now at the center of this debate. And because of its health benefits, many more people are turning to raw milk. Even lactose intolerant folks have found they can digest the un-pasteurized liquid; and it's been said to reduce allergies and asthma in children -- ailments that are on the rise in the U.S.
But there's one hitch: raw milk is illegal.'
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Read: Dr. Mercola's Commentary on Raw Milk and the Raw Milk Revolution
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