Got Milk-ijuana?

Could be a S T O N E R~

2013-03-27T08:39:00.002-07:00

Less Government = More Profit .... duh!

2012-03-19T12:20:00.000-07:00

Rather than be forced to operate within the government's food system, which steals from farmers the majority of their profits, dairies that are allowed to sell raw milk, especially at the retail level, can easily more than quadruple their profits, which also means that a whole lot more money stays in the local economy. Just think of how this one policy change could revolutionize the American economy? (http://www.realmilk.com/rawmilkoverview.html).

Farm Fresh Milk

The Unpasteurized (Raw) Milk bill was passed and enacted into law on July 1, 2009. This progressive legislation legitimizes raw milk, acknowledges that the locally-based food system requires different rules than those established for industrial food, and recognizes that raw milk sales are an incredible economic opportunity for farmers and that there is a growing and significant demand among consumers. It creates a tiered regulatory system that is defined by the quantity of milk being sold. Tier 1 producers can sell up to 50 quarts (12 1/2 gallons) per day from the farm, and Tier 2 producers can sell up to 40 gallons per day between on-farm sales and home delivery to prepaid customers. It establishes a set of reasonable and basic standards that ALL raw milk producers must follow, thereby ensuring a clean and safe raw milk supply. A few examples: animals must be healthy, milking equipment must be cleaned and sanitized, milk must be cooled quickly, and farmers must maintain a daily transaction record. Those operating as Tier 2 producers must follow some additional requirements, including registration with and inspection by the VT Agency of Agriculture and regular milk testing. Regardless of the total quantity of milk being sold, any farmer can operate as a Tier 2 producer as long as s/he is following the Tier 2 requirements – this may be of interest to farmers who want to deliver smaller quantities of milk.

Bill makes raw milk cheese making and classes legal

S.105, signed into law in May, 2011, addresses the issues raised in the Notice of Warning letter that led to the suspension of Rural Vermont’s raw milk dairy classes by changing the definition of raw milk so that it may now be sold for “personal consumption,” rather than limiting its sale for “fluid consumption.” This simple change means that (1) farmers are no longer prohibited from selling raw milk to a customer because that customer plans to make the milk into dairy products such as cheese or butter for their own consumption; and (2) that educational dairy classes may be held in order to teach Vermonters how to make raw milk dairy products for their own consumption.

While Rural Vermont believes the current rules around classes are not perfect, we do think that it is an important step in the right direction in the sense that it legitimizes the rights of individuals to teach people how to make dairy products for their own consumption and represents an important step toward growing Vermont’s vibrant local agricultural system.

Misc Agriculture Bill or the Dairy Housekeeping Bill, S. 105: Contains new language that allows the raw dairy classes to be up and running again, as well as a number of other legislative fixes to do with agriculture. Compost language has been tied on to the end of the bill, attempting to limit the rights’ of municipal zoning regulators. This bill, although lengthy is comprehensive, clear and progressing in the right direction.

Rural Vermont 2012 Raw Milk Report to the Legislature
Raw Milk Law Reference Sheet

Raw Milk supplier tortured and interrogated !

2012-03-11T11:15:00.001-07:00

LA County and Ventura county are engaged in what can only be called a vindictive campaign of hate crimes against raw milk farmers James Stewart and Sharon Palmer.

As of late last night, James is free from jail, having spent eight days in what he described to me over the phone as being "tortured and interrogated" by county officials, then shackled for nine hours, unable to move, followed by days in an isolated cell with raw sewage running across the floor, deprived of food and sleep, driven nearly to the point of insanity.

He was subjected to hypothermia and deadly raw sewage pathogens, then required to clean the raw sewage out of his own jail cell using a hand-held squeegee tool. I spoke with James Stewart on the phone today and recorded a 30-minute interview describing the shocking details of this outrageous, inhumane treatment by LA County. That shocking interview will be posted later today on NaturalNews.

California is now a rogue state engaged in torture of innocents -- comparable only to North Korea. The worst part? The entire arrest was public theater and grandstanding by the DA's office, which had no legal basis to arrest James in the first place! Their charges involve a financial matter from 2008 which doesn't even involve James. He was arrested merely for knowing Sharon Palmer, who was also arrested. Read the latest update here:

http://www.naturalnews.com/035197_James_Stewart_Sharon_Palmer_Ventura_County.html
Sharon Palmer, by the way, is still being incarcerated and is devastated by these hate crime tactics being used by Ventura County. She desperately needs to raise a few thousand more dollars to make bail on Monday morning and return to her farm and children. See the appeal at:

http://buzz.naturalnews.com/000016-Sharon_Palmer-arrest-bail.html
Support for Sharon Palmer can also be offered via this email address:
friendsofhealthyfamilyfarms@gmail.com

First time jail time for Raw Milk supplier !

2012-03-03T15:57:00.001-08:00

For awhile there I thought I was in America?

Raw milk innovator and Rawesome Foods coordinator James Stewart was ambushed by the legal system in California yesterday when he appeared for a preliminary hearing on the multiple felony charges that the state has leveled against him for running a raw dairy food distribution center.

In court yesterday, he was slapped with a $1 million warrant issued by the county. Sharon Palmer, one of the sweetest moms and ranch-hands you'll ever meet, was slapped with a $2 million warrant and was marched away in handcuffs as well.

As you can see, selling fresh milk in California is now considered worse than being a child rapist or a murderer. The state is desperately trying to shut these people up, so it is waging a campaign of outright political terrorism against the raw dairy industry.

As of today, James Stewart and Sharon Palmer are political prisoners of the state of California. Amnesty International is being contacted to see if they may help free these political prisoners from the gulag justice system where simply producing real food is a crime.

This appears to all be part of California's open war on family farming and real food. Observers present at the hearing described the ambush as something "done out of pure unadulterated intimidation" by a rogue government that has abandoned all law.

http://www.thecompletepatient.com/journal/2012/3/3/hershberger-lives-to-fight-another-dayand-be-first-signer-of.html

Harvard study: Pasteurized milk linked to cancer !

2012-02-27T05:53:00.000-08:00

(NaturalNews) The truth has once again shaken the foundation of the 'American Tower of Babel' that is mainstream science, with a new study out ofHarvard Universityshowing that pasteurized milk product from factory farms is linked to causing hormone-dependent cancers. It turns out that the concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) model of raising cows on factory farms churns out milk with dangerously high levels of estrone sulfate, an estrogen compound linked to testicular, prostate, and breast cancers.

Dr. Ganmaa Davaasambuu, Ph.D., and her colleagues specifically identified "milk from modern dairy farms" as the culprit, referring to large-scale confinement operations where cows are milked 300 days of the year, including while they are pregnant. Compared to raw milk from her native Mongolia, which is extracted only during the first six months after cows have already given birth, pasteurized factory milk was found to contain up to 33 times more estrone sulfate.

Evaluating data from all over the world, Dr. Davaasambuu and her colleagues identified a clear link between consumption of such high-hormone milk, and high rates of hormone-dependent cancers. In other words, contrary to what theU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), theU.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA), and the conventional milk lobby would have you believe, processed milk from factory farms is not a health product, and is directly implicated in causing cancer.

"The milk we drink today is quite unlike the milk our ancestors were drinking" without apparent harm for 2,000 years, Dr. Davaasambuu is quoted as saying in theHarvard University Gazette. "The milk we drink today may not be nature's perfect food."

Meanwhile, raw, grass-fed, organic milk from cows milked at the proper times is linked to improving digestion, healing autoimmune disorders, and boosting overall immunity, which can help prevent cancer. Though you will never hear any of this from the mainstream media, all milk is not the same -- the way a cow is raised, when it is milked, and how its milk is handled and processed makes all the difference in whether or not the end product promotes health or death.

American government seeks to further perpetuate the lie that all milk is the same with egregious new provisions in 2012 Farm Bill

Of particular concern are new provisions in the 2012 Farm Bill that create even more incentives for farmers to produce the lowest quality, and most health-destroying, type of milk possible. Rather than incentivize grazing cows on pastures, which allows them to feed on grass, a native food that their systems can process, the government would rather incentivize confined factory farming methods that force cows to eat genetically-modified (GM) corn and other feed, which makes them sick.

As it currently stands, the government already provides incentives for farmers to stop pasturing their animals, instead confining them in cages as part of a Total Confinement Dairy Model, aka factory farms. But the 2012 Farm Bill will take this a step further by outlawing "component pricing" for milk, which involves allowing farmers to sell milk with higher protein and butterfat at a higher price.

Allowing farmers to sell higher quality milk at a higher price provides an incentive for them to improve the living conditions on their farms, and milk better cow breeds. But the U.S. government would rather standardize all milk as being the same, and create a system where farmers continue to produce cancer-causing milk from sick cows for the millions of children to drink.

Learn more: http://www.anh-usa.org/healthy-milk-what-is-it/

Feds destroy entire business of Amish raw milk farmer

2012-02-20T14:34:00.000-08:00

Feds succeed in destroying entire

business of Amish raw milk farmer

Friday, February 17, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) It is with much sadness that we report the two-year war waged by the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) against Pennsylvania Amish farmer Dan Allgyer has been a success. The Washington Times and others are now reporting that, following a ruling last month by Judge Lawrence F. Stengel that Allgyer could no longer ship raw milk across state lines, he is officially shutting down his entire Rainbow Acres Farm.

Provoking Allgyer to shut down his farm appears to have been the goal of the FDA all along, which back on February 4, 2010, conducted a gestapo-style raid on Allgyer'sKinzers, Penn., property to search for evidence that he was shipping raw milk across state lines. After illegally trespassing on the man's property, the agents proceeded to harass Allgyer about his supposed involvement in interstate commerce (http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com).

Just a few months later on April 20, 2010, the FDA again sent its Nazi-sympathizing thugs back to Rainbow Acres Farm, this time at 4:30 a.m. while Allgyer was still asleep, to conduct another raid. Violating the provisions of their so-called warrant, which specified that any inspection must be conducted during "reasonable times during ordinary business hours," the agents proceeded to once again ransack the farm in search of evidence to back their claims that Allgyer was engaged in illegal interstate commerce (http://www.naturalnews.com/029322_raw_milk_Amish.html).

Following this second sting, the FDA claims to have discovered the evidence it needed, and immediately sent Allgyer a warning letter notifying him that he was in violation of interstate commerce laws, according to their view (http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/aa/aa-26april2010.htm). The agency also filed a civil complaint against Allgyer around the same time.

With hundreds of happy and satisfied out-of-state customers that relied on him for fresh supplies of raw milk, Allgyer attempted to satisfy the FDA's demands by restructuring his farm's distribution process into private cow share agreements with customers. Such agreements allow individuals to directly purchase shares in the cows from which they get milk, which means they personally own them, and they are not subject to FDA jurisdiction.

Rogue judge essentially declares FDA has jurisdiction over private property use, in this case cows

But on February 3, 2012, Judge Stengel decided that Allgyer was still in violation of interstate commerce laws, even with the restructured cow sharing arrangements, and ordered him to stop distributing raw milk altogether. Private cow share agreements do not constitute interstate commerce, of course, but Judge Stengel apparently pays no regard to individual liberty, having declared that the FDA basically now has jurisdiction over private property use.

Likely worn down from the perpetual and never-ending harassment, Allgyer appears to have decided to simply give up trying to fight this unprecedented tyranny, and simply shut down his farm. Hundreds of families that relied on Allgyer for fresh milk, butter, cheese, eggs, and other nutritious goods will now have to find a new source for clean food, at least until the FDA shuts them down, too.

"I can't believe in 2012 the federal government is raiding Amish farmers at gunpoint all over a basic human right to eat natural food," said one of the farm's former customers, who wished to remain anonymous, to The Washington Times. "In Maryland, they force taxpayers to pay for abortions, but God forbid we want the same milk our grandparents drank."

Learn more:

http://www.naturalnews.com/035000_Amish_farmers_raw_milk_feds.html#ixzz1mhFnAM3q

Kids Drinking Raw Milk Have 40% Less Allergies

2012-02-20T14:30:00.000-08:00

Kids Drinking Raw Milk Have 40% Less Asthma and Allergies: New Large Study

September 17, 2011

By Mr. Augie

http://journal.livingfood.us/2011/09/17/kids-drinking-raw-milk-have-40-less-asthma-and-allergies-new-large-study/

Reuters, Fox and other media outlets reported September 13 about a large European raw milk study published at the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, online August 29, 2011, showing kids who drink raw milk are 41% less likely to suffer from asthma and allergies. The study included 8334 school-aged children, and 7606 of them provided serum samples to assess specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels. Over 800 cow’s milk samples were collected at the participants’ homes. Reuter’s article stated:

Compared with kids who only drank store-bought milk, those who drank raw milk had a 41-percent reduction in their odds of developing asthma. They were also only about half as likely to develop hay fever — even after accounting for other factors that might be relevant. On the other hand, those who drank boiled farm milk had no less asthma than those who drank store milk. The protective effect was linked to so-called whey proteins in the milk, such as BSA and alpha-lactalbumin. Pasteurization remains an effective tool to inactivate harmful microorganisms but may simultaneously destroy whey proteins.

The results of this study brings up two other very serious questions rarely posed: 1) What other diseases and disorders are caused by regular pasteurized, homogenized milk with synthetic chemical additives? and 2) What other health benefits can be realized from including raw milk as part of a well-rounded diet of whole, fresh foods?

1) What other diseases and disorders are caused by regular pasteurized, homogenized milk with synthetic chemical additives?

First, twenty percent of Americans get sick immediately upon drinking regular milk and this has been growing every year. An informal survey by The Weston A. Price Foundation found that ninety percent of those lacto-intolerant can drink raw milk. What is it doing to the health of the other 80 percent? This study names just asthma and allergies. But there are a host of other auto-immune disorders caused or made worse by drinking regular milk. These symptoms are either corrected or lessened when regular milk is stopped or when substituting regular milk with raw milk. . It is only logical to assume many people do not know the symptoms they suffer are regular-milk-induced. Face it, regular milk today is not what grandma drank. Our article Skim Milk may be making you fat and sick is already the No. 1 post of the year. It tells how skim milk can help make you fat and raise bad cholesterol

In a December 2009 survey by the Journal, 877 raw milk drinkers had this to say:

Health Benefits (of 877 raw milk drinkers)

74% have much health benefit

24% some

2% none

What all responders said about pasteurized milk:

62% believe it has long-term health consequences

15% say it makes them very sick

40% say it tastes terrible

30% say it upsets their stomach

16% say it gives them diarrhea

2) What other health benefits can be realized from including raw milk as part of a well-rounded diet of whole, fresh foods?

From my experience, I will state that children and adults who drink raw milk are significantly healthier and have fewer diseases and disorders than those who drink regular pasteurized, homogenized milk. One reason may be those essential natural animal fats and healthy cholesterols. A whole set of studies substantiate the health benefits and safety of properly produced raw milk.

Humorously, the subject study goes as far as not to recommend raw milk because of its “dangers”. Be assured the FDA and USDA will continue to bust Amish farmers and other dairies producing raw milk intended and fit for human consumption, even though no deaths have been recorded from raw milk consumption in the last ten years. In fact, of 42 raw milk illnesses per year on average reported, using government figures, you are about 35,000 times more likely to become ill from other foods than you are from raw milk, especially if you are careful to select a clean, safe raw dairy. Yet the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have targeted a ban on access to raw milk, included in the top 10 health crises to be addressed in their Healthy People 2020 campaign

Do not expect the milk industry or their marketing partners at USDA, FDA or CDC to fund a study in overall health outcomes of raw versus regular milk drinkers. The milk industry is already losing market share as the underground secret message of natural milk is overcoming television milk mustaches on celebrities. But if a study were ever conducted, the healthier outcomes would not be from raw milk or healthier diets alone. Of the hundreds of raw milk drinkers I know also have children who are not overly vaccinated nor do they drink fluoridated water.

Raw milk vending machines !

2012-01-27T08:07:00.000-08:00

(NaturalNews) While American health authorities continue to peddle unfounded superstition about the so-called dangers of raw milk, which has spawned authoritarian policies that prevent millions of Americans from freely accessing it, unpasteurized dairy is all the rage throughout Europe. And one Polish manufacturer of raw milk vending machines explained toThe Bovinein a recent interview that the installation of such machines is rapidly spreading both in Poland and across Europe.

They are something you will not find in the US -- at least not yet -- but that are set to expand from 150 machines to 1,000 or more in the coming years, just in the country of Poland, according to Konrad Pszowski, owner of MILKMAT SC, a popular manufacturer of high-quality raw milk vending machines. Such machines are a great way for local farmers to distribute fresh milk to customers in large cities or other areas far away from dairies.

"I think that in European countries there is big knowledge about raw milk," Pszowski is quoted as saying to The Bovine. "People know what products they can make out of this milk. They know how to produce house cheese, sour milk, butter ... In my opinion interest in it will grow all over the world. Especially that we are more aware of [...] what we eat."

Be sure to read Pszowski's full interview withThe Bovinehere:
http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/raw-milk-in-poland-interview-with-a-polish-raw-milk-vending-machine-maker/

No matter how they choose to use it, Europeans are free to decide for themselves whether or not to consume raw milk and raw milk dairy products, and raw milk vending machines just make it easier and more convenient for them to do so. And because the milk is routinely inspected for quality and proper sanitation, it is safe for human consumption.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on the other hand, is stuck in the stone ages of bad science on the raw milk issue. The agency has decided that raw milk is inherently dangerous, despite myriad evidence to the contrary, and has done everything it possibly can with taxpayers' money to restrict access to it, including raiding small dairies and confiscating product from buyers' clubs (http://www.naturalnews.com/033280_FDA_raids_timeline.html).

But what is happening in Poland and throughout Europe with raw milk and the widespread installation of raw milk vending machines proves that American regulators and health authorities are willfully ignorant of the facts about raw milk, and have forcefully extended their ignorance onto the public with tyrannical laws against its sale and distribution.

Check out this interesting map which lists all raw milk vending machines just in the country of Italy:
http://www.milkmaps.com/

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/034786_raw_milk_vending_machines_Europe.html#ixzz1kfvvDyj1

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“This is your brain on Raw Milk,” ....

2011-12-06T10:28:00.000-08:00

.... will be on the Tube.... “It’s a gateway drink,” will be preached from a pulpit at a church near you.... "Raw Milk Madness’," will be sold at bookstalls.... "Raw Milk is destroying our youth," will make the front page of the local paper.

Think it'll never happen? I'm being silly, not in America! And anyway, how could something so perfect for us humans, a staple of our healthful existence, the fabric of our lives, be treated like a poison. Raw Milk would never be illegal - you laugh.

Sorry to piss on your fantasy picnic, but yes, I'm here to tell ya, fellow scrollers, this is far from a joke and what is happening will bring you to tears, unless you're a communist. Raw milk is already illegal. Selling raw milk is illegal in 18 states, and in four others, it can be purchased only as pet food. That's because the US Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the American Medical Association have warned for years that unpasteurized - or "raw" - milk, yogurt and cheeses can carry listeria, salmonella, and E. coli........well, so where's the proof? Actually, more people die from pasteurized milk, than by Raw Milk.

Already the use of scare-tactics and fear-leaking propaganda of the dangers of Raw Milk is firmly in place and planted in the heads of the public. No matter how safe the milk business was before they adopted Louis Pasture's money making idea of pasteurization, seems somehow to be beside the point and unimportant. And, since pasteurization took over with a vengeance, people that not only continue to drink Raw Milk and other unadulterated dairy products, without getting sick, but also rave of the healing powers or the lack of doctor visits since they switched, are usually shunned, or peered at as if they were hippie pushers.

I have relatives that were in the milk business before and after this new heating process. We’ve talked about it on numerous occasions throughout my life, always concluding: the only reason they used this process is so it could sit on the shelves longer at a grocery stores. It had nothing to do with any health benefits; it was all in the money. (Sound familiar? ~ ~~ ;~)

“And it ain’t any better for ya than colored water,” my great uncle has said. His family owned Lankerbrook Dairy at one time. After all these years, I think, he still has a chip on shoulder. He loved being a milkman, and, in essence, I'm a milkman too. And, ya mon, I'm proud, very proud to say it.... I Twittered myself !

Congressman Ron Paul asks: 'How much freedom do we have if we can't even drink unpasteurized milk?'

I confess. I'm out of the closet. I’m a Raw Milk head ....

.... but I only use it medically of course, and not because it taste so darn good! So yes, I admit it, judge me as you will, as well as the others in this country that are forced to have a connection. We have to hit the street, and to talk street. We deal in the ‘black market’ because it is our drink of choice. We joke about it, sure, but it's still very serous to us. And why wouldn't it be; it concerns our health, our bodies. It’s our family secret. Before I leave for my weekly ’score,’ I’ll first look out the peephole of my front door for any suspicious cars with darkly tinted windows or actual ornamental cop cars. I’ll take a different rout every week to, and from, my raw milk ‘dealer.’ I’ll call Joseph.

No, not yet, I don’t have to see him under the cloak of darkness, call a number or leave a text code on his cell phone before I pick it up. He has no phone, no PC and no need to meet at an undisclosed location; just his farm. He doesn’t have a car, instead he has a buggy. And he doesn't have to be in disguise, but he sure looks like he is; he’s Amish. And there’s just one day he won’t do business on his farm; Sunday, and there’s only one guarantee he offers; his family drinks the same, and have for years. Mind you, I’ve never seen a healthier Family. And when I asked him if he or any of his family, or any other Amish families that he knows of have ever gotten sick from it. "Certainly not," he answered in a German accent, "or we wouldn't drink it."

Makes sense to me. This is the only 'FDA seal of approval that I need to observe. I'd certainly rather listen to him than some fat, fast-food infested bureaucrat, who doesn't even know me; tell me what is good for me and what I’m permitted to consume, into my own body. And thank the happy Buddha that drinking raw milk doesn't make a person feel the slight bit euphoric. Or you could bet your Oreos there would soon be a Raw Milk Czar appointed, and the DEA would be expanded. The FBI would fall from the sky and land hard on the dairy farm like stink on cow patties. They’d confiscate cows, if not just slaughter them, and render the milking machine as well as all the containers to be now classified as paraphernalia. And it wouldn’t matter in the slightest the non-lethal history of this drink, the health benefits, and it being as God intended it. The milk, butter, cheese, and probably the eggs too, all dairy products will be destroyed under the guise of political correctness.

”Say No to Raw Milk" .... "It’s a Raw Milk War!”.... “Beware of the Raw Milk pusher”.... “Raw Milk will make you go nuts and be violent”.... “There are Raw Milk gangs”.... “Raw Milk is stronger now than in the 60's".... -a new contrived slogan every week that your child would bring home from their M.A.R.E. program at school, and spring it on the family. Such family fun; then the kids can ‘rat’ on their parents when they catch them with Raw Milk.

Already somebody has been arrested:
Like a scene out of George Orwell 1984, distraught Family members and customers watch in horror on April of '08' as a squadron of police cars and state agents took Mark Nolt, a Pennsylvania farmer, away in handcuffs. No, he wasn't a terrorist nor did he harm anybody in any way or steal anything. Nolt was selling Raw Milk, Yogart and fresh Cheeses. Nolt says his transactions were a private matter between him and his customers, of which he's never had a complaint, and that his rights are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Pennsylvania's Food Act of 1935. Regardless of whatever he could recite to the officers, turned SS, Pennsylvania fined him more than $4,000, and confiscated more than $50,000 in equipment and fresh dairy products. Nolt is going to appeal the case.

Nope, not my connection :)

Feds sting Amish farmer selling raw milk locally - Washington Times
A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal government announcing this week that it has gone to court to stop Rainbow Acres Farm....

Comin-at-cha! The politician will soon have Raw Milk on their platform as well as on their lips. Raw Milk will give the First Lady and her husband something to do with their royal time. An answer to their post election hangover and the headache of looking important and busy now, since they were hired. Another scare tactic, another make-work project for them. Time to fix the unbroken, or break it to fix it, while all the time, hopefully for two terms, blaming the other side. "Goody-goody, another prohibition game we can all play.” "It's the right thing to do." "The right message for the children."

Who would have ever thought our government would be as inflated as it has become. That 'big brother' or rather, 'huge brother with gout' would have their tentacles stuck in all that they do. And as they keep doing. And, oh yeah, the Constitution, remember that?

Ah yes, I can see it now:
Soon there will be a Boston Milk Party, like the tea party of our forefathers, where unhappy patriots and farmers will toss jugs of milk overboard in protest. Their chant would be, “no pasteurization without representation.” And then, to further 'huge brother’s' agenda and effort to make Raw Milk sound worse than what it really is, in their infinite wisdom, with media's help of course, will change the name from Raw Milk - to, say .... ‘Milk-ijuana.’

Raw milk farmer wins victory against county over 'illegal' sales
(NaturalNews) A small victory has been won on the raw milk battle front. Greene County, Mo., Circuit Judge Daniel Imhoff recently threw out a lawsuit against Armand Bechard, a farmer who sells raw milk to customers in the Springfield area. According to...

News Link • CorruptionYou Won’t Believe How Corrupt, Lazy And Stinking Rich Our Congress Critters Have Become
12-28-2011 • www.prisonplanet.com
If our founding fathers could see the cesspool that the U.S. Congress has become today, they would roll over in their graves. Most Americans don’t realize this, but we already have a “part-time Congress”. Members of Congress only “work” a little ov.....

News Link • Homeland SecurityTweeting the Word 'Drill' Could Mean Your Twitter Account Is Read by U.S. Government Spies
12-30-2011 • www.lewrockwell.com/Rob Waugh
The Department of Homeland Security makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles for the specific purpose of scanning the networks for 'sensitive' words – and tracking people who use them.

Why pasteurization is so bad !

Pasteurization is used to mask low-quality milk
Heat destroys a great number of bacteria in milk and thus conceals the evidence of dirt, pus and dirty dairy practices. To combat the increase in pathogens milk goes through ‘clarification’, ‘filtering’, ‘bactofugation’ and two ‘deariation’ treatments. Each of these treatments uses heat ranging from 100-175 degrees Fahrenheit. Dairies count on many heat treatments to mask their inferior sanitary conditions: milk filled with pus, manure and debris.
Homogenization of milk causes leucocytes (pus) to settle as sediment in the bottom of milk. The milk industry calls this pus sediment ‘slime’: a grayish-oily sludge. This slime is removed by ‘clarification’
Pasteurization destroys vitamin C, and damages the water soluble B vitamins diminishing the nutrient value of milk
Calcium and other minerals are made unavailable by pasteurization
Milk enzymes, proteins, antibodies as well as beneficial hormones are destroyed by pasteurization resulting in devitalized ‘lifeless’ milk. Milk enzymes help digest lactose and both enzymes and milk proteins help to absorb vitamins
Pasteurized milk is more likely to lead to decay in teeth and interferes with the proper development of the teeth
Infants do not develop well on pasteurized milk
Pasteurization removes the stimulus to remove diseased animals from milking herds
Pasteurization has contributed to an increase in allergies
Pasteurized milk can be held for as many as four to five days in holding silos. The date on the carton is calculated from the time of bottling, not the date of milking
It’s cheaper to produce dirty milk and kill the bacteria by heat, that to maintain a clean dairy and keep cows healthy
Consumer Reports found 44% of 125 pasteurized milk samples contained as many as 2200 organisms per cubic centimeter (fecal bacteria, coliforms)

News Link • ActivismRally For Raw Milk in Chicago At Lunch Time
12-07-2011 • Lew Rockwell
On Thursday, December 8, a group of mothers will risk arrest and other penalties by purchasing fresh, unprocessed milk from a small farm in Wisconsin, transporting it to Chicago’s Independence Park and distributing the milk to other mothers who need

News Link  • FoodFDA Escalates War Against Amish Dairy Farmers
12-21-2011 • www.activistpost.com
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) apparent war on Amish raw dairy farmers increased on December 6 when they filed a “motion for summary judgment,” with Pennsylvania judge Lawrence Stengler asking for a permanent injunction against dairy f

News Link  • FoodAmish Dairy Farmer Selling Raw Milk Won’t Be Cowed by FDA
12-23-2011 • thenewamerican.com
Milk may do a body good, but selling it without the government’s stamp of approval does not. Dan Allgyer, an Amish dairy farmer, is finding that out the hard way.