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The Canadian Press

TORONTO — A farmer’s fight to produce raw milk will continue today in a Newmarket court.
Michael Schmidt will argue that the evidence against him is inadmissible because it was based on a faulty search warrant.
The raw milk war began in November, 2006 when health officials raided Schmidt’s Grey-Bruce County farm.
Schmidt now faces 20 charges for selling and producing the unpasteurized milk.
If he loses his case, the fines he’ll face could bankrupt his 20-year old business.
Raw milk advocates say they drink it for its flavour, organic properties, and health benefits.
But it’s illegal to sell raw milk in Canada because it can carry hordes of potentially deadly bacteria, including salmonella and E. coli.

Lovely…at least they haven’t started throwing them in Jail…yet.

This is an article that was posted to Yahoo News on June 11, 2008. I am curious though. According to the FDA, 2 people have died from “raw milk” between 1998 and 2005. How many people have died from smoking in those seven years and you don’t see them bending over backwards to outlaw cigarettes.

You can die from bubblebath. The point is…the FDA does not care about you. The FDA does not care about the health of our country. You are responsible for your own health. If that scares you, be grateful, but take heart. The FDA is somebody’s cock-puppy, nothing more, nothing less.

Monsanto wants to stick their wormy, bloated cock in your mouth, and the FDA is there to tell you it isn’t a cock. It’s a mouth based video game.

SAN FRANCISCO - Dairy owner Mark McAfee started selling raw milk in 2000, marketing it to customers who believe it contains beneficial microbes that treat everything from asthma to autism.
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The unpasteurized milk swiftly caught on as part of the growing natural food movement. But the Food and Drug Administration considers McAfee a snake oil salesman and recently launched an investigation into whether his dairy illegally shipped raw milk across state lines. The agency even tried to recruit one of his employees to secretly record conversations with him.

The case against McAfee is part of a crackdown on raw milk by government health officials who are concerned about the spread of food-borne illnesses. Lawmakers and law enforcement agencies are stepping up efforts to keep unpasteurized milk out of reach, even as demand for the niche product grows.

McAfee, who was among the first in California to sell raw milk on a large scale, brushed off the investigation: “When you’re a pioneer, you have to expect to take a few arrows.”

Twenty-two states prohibit sales of raw milk for human consumption, and the rest allow it within their borders. The FDA bans cross-border sales.

In Pennsylvania, local officials recently busted two dairies unlawfully selling milk straight from the cow.

And in Maryland, health officials issued an emergency ban late last year on “cow-sharing” agreements, claiming they were aimed at skirting a ban on raw milk sales.

“Raw milk should not be consumed by anyone for any reason,” said John Sheehan, head of the FDA’s dairy office. “It is an inherently dangerous product.”

But shutting down sales is tricky because the federal government has largely let states regulate the raw milk industry. The result is a hodgepodge of laws that confuse consumers, dairy farmers and regulators alike.

McAfee said he expects the FDA’s criminal probe to be dropped without charges in a deal that will require him to guarantee his interstate shipments are for use only as pet food. The FDA declined to comment.

Raw milk proponents insist they are under siege by state and federal regulators intent on snuffing out the industry.

The popularity of raw milk is fueled by consumers’ concerns about the chemicals and hormones used in traditional dairy farming, and a growing interest in unprocessed, organic foods.

Devotees of raw milk ascribe to it almost mythical healing powers. They feed it to babies, believing it strengthens the immune system and staves off digestive troubles. The heat used in pasteurization, they say, kills healthy natural proteins and enzymes.

“It’s a magic food,” said Sally Fallon, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates consumption of natural foods.

The FDA insists pasteurization destroys harmful bacteria without significantly changing milk’s nutritional value. The process also extends its shelf life.

Nevertheless, some consumers have formed cooperatives to support dairy farmers who offer raw milk. They also join “cow-sharing” programs in which farmers take care of cows that are “leased” by consumers.

Food safety officials say raw milk has sickened hundreds of people with salmonella, E. coli and other bacteria. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1,000 people fell ill from raw milk between 1998 and 2005. Two died.

The FDA ban on cross-border sales of raw milk led to its criminal investigation of Organic Pastures, a Fresno dairy owned by McAfee that is California’s largest raw milk supplier.

The agency ordered two of McAfee’s employees to testify before a grand jury and offered to pay one of them to surreptitiously record her conversations with McAfee, according to the worker.

“The main issue was selling our products outside the state of California,” said dairy worker Amanda Hall, who refused to wear the wire. The two workers’ grand jury appearances were canceled last month.

Even if McAfee avoids criminal charges, he still faces lawsuits filed by the families of five children who claim his raw milk made them seriously ill.

He denies the allegations and said testing at his dairy did not detect the strain of E. coli that sickened some of the children.

McAfee also is challenging a new California law requiring lower bacteria levels in raw milk. He fears the change will put him out of business. A judge in San Benito County last month ruled for the state, but McAfee appealed the decision on Thursday. Also, a state senator plans to introduce a bill to repeal the law.

Whole Foods Co. lobbied for a law that ensure raw milk dairies can stay in business.

“It is a growing piece of our business,” said Walter Robb, the company’s co-president. “We want to protect consumer choice.”

He and other raw milk proponents argue that the FDA should spend its time working on other agricultural practices that jeopardize food safety, such as the way large farms confine animals.

But parents like Melissa Herzog strongly disagree.

Herzog, whose 10-year-old daughter spent two months in the hospital after her kidneys failed because of E. coli poisoning, is one of the families suing Organic Pastures over the 2006 outbreak that health officials determined was probably caused by raw milk from the dairy.

“I don’t have anything good to say about raw milk,” she said. “It was a horrible experience.”

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The kind and gentle garden state is in a battle right over the right to have Raw Milk. On June 12th they have slated a hearing at the local legislature. The goal is to pack the house and show unrestrained support for releasing the stranglehold on raw milk and raw milk products. They have a nice website here called Garden State Raw Milk.

It’s interesting…it [the website] is built with .aspx. I’m sure they paid for that. I didn’t think normal people use .asp??? I wonder how many low-budget organizations are out there actually paying for websites.

Time wasted some breath on the raw milk Issue last Month in May. Here’s an excerpt from their article.

Got milk? No? No biggie–just zip to your local supermarket and pick up a carton. Got raw milk? Now that’s trickier. Carol Peterson, an IT manager at Xerox, drives almost two hours each month to her favorite farm in upstate New York for her unpasteurized supply. Susan Mueller, a mother of two in Ithaca, N.Y., bought shares in a dairy farm so she could pick up her raw milk and yogurt at a drop-off point closer to home. And they consider themselves lucky. In Manhattan some raw-milk drinkers hire a mule to bring the white stuff to an agreed-upon location in the city, where they stock up during a strictly enforced two-hour window. “Sometimes I just can’t believe this is all about milk,” says Peterson.

Believe it. Since 1987, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has required that milk sold and distributed between states for human consumption be pasteurized, meaning it must first be heated to kill off most of the bacteria that might be lurking in the barn or flourishing in the cow. But a growing contingent of natural-food fans is demanding the right to bring milk from teat to table, convinced that pasteurization strips away the very stuff that makes milk so nutritious to begin with. Farmers are more than willing to meet the demand, since raw-milk products–milk, cheese, yogurt and cream–can be sold at a thick premium. But both buyer and seller may be at odds with the law. Though the FDA allows the sale of raw-milk cheese that has been aged for 60 days, it doesn’t permit the sale of raw milk over state lines. Six states allow the sale of raw milk in stores, and 28 let consumers buy the straight stuff only on the farm where it is produced. In the rest, raw milk exists only on the black market.

Why drink raw milk at all? Fans are convinced that heating destroys the good bacteria–the same probiotic critters that retailers now add back into some yogurts–as well as enzymes that can be beneficial to your health. They claim that drinking raw milk can relieve asthma and eczema as well as give flagging immune systems a boost. Mueller started her daughter on raw milk last winter as an experiment. “The previous year, she had bronchitis, an ear infection, a urinary-tract infection and three or four colds,” Mueller says. “This year she missed two days of school all winter.” That’s why Mueller joined the cow-share program, in which members pay quarterly fees of $100 to $200 for the upkeep of the animals and get raw milk in return. As an owner, her family receives its raw milk as dividends. No state or federal authority can prevent you from drinking milk from a cow you own, right?

Not everyone is sold on raw milk. The growing consumption of unpasteurized products has food-safety authorities warning about a potential uptick in the milk-borne illnesses that pasteurization was designed to prevent. Disputes over the safety of raw milk are being waged on websites like Realmilk.com and increasingly in the courts. California food and agriculture officials began battling with farmers last month over a new state law requiring raw milk to meet the same safety standards as pasteurized milk. John Sheehan, director of dairy-food safety at the FDA, has likened drinking raw milk to “playing Russian roulette with your health”; advocates accuse the agency of relying on outdated information and harassing raw-milk producers in order to protect the pasteurizing industry. “The heat from the government against us is just palpable,” says Mark McAfee, founder of Organic Pastures Dairy in Fresno, Calif., which produces and ships raw milk across the country.

So who’s right? The available evidence suggests that without a bug-killing step like pasteurization, even the cleanest dairy with the healthiest cows cannot always expect to produce safe milk. In testimony before Maryland state delegates, the FDA’s Sheehan stressed that raw milk in any form “should not be consumed by anyone, at any time, for any reason.” He cited 45 outbreaks of disease from 1998 to 2005 that were traced to unpasteurized milk or cheese–and pointed to the dangers of exposing the vulnerable immune systems of young children, the elderly and those with immune disorders to the colonies of bugs that can populate untreated dairy. Raw milk makes up less than half of 1% of milk sales in the U.S. but accounts for twice as many disease outbreaks as pasteurized milk.

Farmers like McAfee counter that all raw milk is not created equal. Government surveys, they claim, lump together raw milk that is destined for pasteurization–and therefore doesn’t have to be table-ready–along with milk, like McAfee’s, that is produced for human consumption. But that doesn’t convince Kathryn Boor, chair of food science at Cornell University, who grew up on a farm drinking raw milk–but won’t do it now. “You can’t always tell when a cow is sick,” she says. “And cows can sometimes kick the milking machine off. Generally, what’s on the barn floor is not something I want in a glass.”

So could raw milk ever be made safer to drink? Maybe. It would help to mandate that it meet the same bacteria-count standards as pasteurized milk, as Washington and Maine currently do. But even with regulations, consumers would still be putting a lot of trust in the farmer and the health of the cow. In the end, that may be too much work for a glass of milk.

The rest of the article via here “slanted Times article on Raw Milk”

I’m glad to see big people are ‘TALKING’ about raw milk. It’s funny though. They still pretend like scientists actually study it. They still fantasize about Evidence and Regulation of raw milk :P I’m not sure who to feel more endeared to at this point??

The FDA or the Newspapers…and then there’s people like Alex Avery and the CGFI via Monsanto, the waste of breath.

Perhaps I’m not as grateful as I could be…maybe these folks are really doing us all a favor eh? :P I must say though, of all the players on board lately…there are some really strong people out there. The folks at the Weston Price Foundation are amazing!!! They don’t back down. They’re fighting in the world of beaurocracy for our daily food. That is a pretty amazing thing, it’s not something you see very often these days. People who are just trying to help you.

This is a FANTASTIC document addressing the FDA’s actions concerning raw milk and it’s health affects. Reading something like this just makes me feel alright for a little while.