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Raw Milk Testimonials Needed
for Florida Member
WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION
ACTION ALERT
February 7, 2006
Micah West, a resident of Naples, Florida, and a follower of Weston
Price's dietary principles is requesting help. On Feb. 20, 2006 there
will be an evidentiary hearing over the custody of Micah's two children
(sons ages 3 and 5-1/2) in the Collier County Courthouse, Florida. Micah
and his wife are currently separated and have temporary joint custody
of the children pending their divorce. She is asking the court to give
her full custody, and sole parental responsibility over the children,
claiming that Micah is unfit to be a parent. Her reasons for this claim
are (1) he has fed the children raw milk and (2) he has refused to have
the children vaccinated.
On January 12, 2006, Micah's wife took the youngest child to the doctor
when a bout of diarrhea the child had been experiencing for two weeks
had not subsided. His wife told the doctor that the child's symptoms
had been aggravated by dairy products, and that the father had been
giving him unpasteurized milk. The doctor took stool cultures and lab
results showed that the child's diarrhea was not due to infection. Nonetheless,
the doctor strongly recommended against giving the child unpasteurized
milk.
On January 23, 2006 the child's doctor sent a letter to the case worker
in the Florida Dept. of Children & Families (DCF) monitoring the
West children's custody. In the letter the doctor stated: "while
it is not 100% certain that [the child] has a true lactose intolerance,
it is certain that he should not be consuming unpasteurized milk."
He also stated: "At this time I recommend that [the child] drink
soy milk to prevent further 'flair ups' of diarrhea." Along with
the letter, the doctor sent the case worker a copy of an article from
the September-October 2004 issue of FDA Consumer Magazine entitled "Got
Milk? Make Sure it's
Pasteurized."
After receiving the letter from the doctor, the case worker spoke to
Micah and told him that based on the doctor's opinion he should stop
giving his children raw milk. The case worker also informed Micah of
the doctor's recommendation that he give the children soy milk. When
he said he did not want his children to have soy milk, the case worker
told him to let DCF know what kind of milk substitute he would be providing
his children.
To defeat his wife's claim that feeding their children raw milk makes
him an unfit parent, Micah is seeking any of the following help:
(1) written testimonials from those whose health has benefited from
the consumption of raw milk;
(2) letters from health practitioners describing the safety and
efficacy of raw milk;
(3) peer review scientific literature describing the same; and
(4) additionally, anyone who is willing to appear at the hearing to
testify on the health benefits of raw milk can contact Micah.
Please send your responses to Micah by email at
or by phone at 239-222-4144.
Micah's case represents an opportunity to respond to the false
information put out by the government and medical establishment on the
"dangers" of raw milk consumption. For a court to hold that
feeding children raw milk constitutes child abuse is an outrage that
no one can accept. This situation cannot be ignored. Action must be
taken, and one of our
own must be supported. Mr. West needs our help to set the record straight.
Please contact him today.
Micah West: by email at
or by phone at (239) 222-4144.
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