The Right to Raw Milk
March 27th, 2007Excellent raw milk article.
Via: Acres USA:
ACRES U.S.A. Fresh or raw milk producers are having problems just about everywhere, such as in Michigan, where they pulled over a guy and destroyed his product and raided his house and took the records — and similar things have happened in state after state. I’d like to have your take on all this, especially how it has impacted your operation recently.
MARK McAFEE. That’s a big discussion because there are massive interests — the pharmaceutical interests, doctors, the current medical practitioners’ associations, all the politics of creameries, the national branded organic dairies as well as national branded conventional dairies, the mega-dairies, the FDA, the USDA — that are completely in alignment against short-shelf-life, high-value-added products. They are interested in long-shelf-life, low-liability products, and they want to control that market segment entirely. Raw milk represents a kind of interloper to them — it’s something that keeps them from having complete control of the markets. It also has some incredible healing properties that would ultimately ruin the pharmaceutical industry as well as the current paradigm of sick health care versus preventive health care. People make lots of money on sick people — they don’t make a lot of money on people who prevent disease and illness.
Research Credit: Ran Prieur
Some good news; Whole Foods Market in California carries raw milk from local Jersey cows. It is delicious.
Not sure why conspiracy theories always have to be used to convince people to change their habits. It just might be that some people are trying to do the right thing by banning the sale of raw milk (like keep people from getting ill). That’s not to say I agree with them. Can we have civil discourse and not resort to saying its a big conspiracy? Just wondering.
Ken,
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you don’t know how far the rabbit hole goes on this. Here are some links. If you want to know about raw milk, I’d be happy to answer any questions, as my wife and I drink it and consume butter, cheese and yogurt made from it every day.
If you want to talk “conspiracy theories,” however, go hang out with the corporations behind the laws and the politicians who serve them.
Cheers, I’m drinking some raw milk at the moment, actually.
Weston A Price Foundation
http://www.realmilk.com/
The Untold Story of Milk
https://cryptogon.com/?p=356
Raw Milk and Lifting the Veil that has Been Pulled Over Our Eyes
https://cryptogon.com/?p=284
Real Milk NZ
http://realmilk.co.nz
Yogurt, Butter and Cheese!
http://farmlet.co.nz/?p=62
Hope this isn’t construed as spamming – (I also posted this info in 2 other blog entries):
If you live in Melbourne, you can get “Cleopatra’s Bath Milk and Body Cream†😉 from Organic Wholefoods. There are 2 stores – one in Lygon Street Brunswick East, the other is in Smith Street Fitzroy. Think there’s one in Daylesford, too.