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Government "Sneak Attack"
on California Raw Milk
Dear Chapter Leaders and Members,
With raw milk politics facing tough battles and having some wonderful
successes
across the United States, raw milk has just been dealt a serious blow
and has been made illegal in California as of January 1st 2008.
We need you to act today.
I have included a letter from Mark McAfee below. We need you to write
to California legislators, write letters to the editor of your local
paper if you are in
California, post about this issue on your blog, and contact everyone
in your chapter and in your friendship network to mobilize them in this
fight.
Read Mark's letter below or visit the Organic Pastures action page
directly:
DEAR RAW MILK FRIENDS,
There comes a time in life when conscious people must fight... ....this
is one of
those rare times!!
The Governor of California just signed into law AB1735 which changes
raw milk
standards to include "less than 10 coliforms per ml of raw milk".
This will
eliminate a consistent supply of raw milk in California, because high
quality raw
milk always has some Coliforms. In fact Coliforms are essential to the
safety of raw milk. They are responsible for making Colicins which protect
against and kill off harmful pathogenic forms of bacteria including
Ecoli 0157H7. Never before has raw milk in California ever been tested
for Coliforms, because they are good bacteria and are not pathogenic.
All raw milk pathogens are tested separately to assure safety.
Sadly, the reality is that the Governor probably did not even know
what he was
signing because it was slipped into the regulation without discussion
or debate.
When he finds out what he signed he will ask for a "CDFA head on
a silver plate" I
am sure. That's right. There were no open discussion or hearings on
this change. No raw milk consumer or raw milk producer was advised or
invited to attend the secreted meetings. The staff at the State Ag Committee
now says that AB1735 was not supposed to be an area of conflict. It
was just law to align California Raw Milk laws with Federal Raw Milk
laws.
To any raw milk producer or consumer this is WAR!!
The CDFA and FDA hate raw milk!!!
Only the government and pasteurized GOT DEAD MILK policy makers were
involved in AB 1735 and of coarse there was no discussion. This was
a "strategic sneak attack"... to get rid of the looming raw
milk threat to the GOT DEAD MILK industry.
We now ask that you all please shower the Governor with emails and
letters. Do not blame him but ask him to correct a horrible mistake
immediately. We ask that you call your state assemblyman. We ask that
you write your local newspaper. We ask that you blog. We ask that super
moms and dads morph into raw milk ninja fighters and protect your families.
The internet and your voices are your greatest tools. But they must
be heard. Tell everyone about how raw milk has changed your life.
Demand that the "eight new words introduced by AB 1735" that
effectively kill
California Raw Milk be immediately removed!
There is more to this story, in September of 2006, during the height
of the huge
Ecoli 0157H7 spinach outbreak that sickened 197 and killed 3, CDFA mandated
a recall of organic raw milk in California. After seven days of press
drama, raw milk famine, fanfare, thousands of tests (including fresh
manure from all cows and all milk products) and extensive research,
neither the FDA, CDFA or DHS could link any illness to raw milk. The
kids supposedly sickened did not even have matching
pathogen tests linking them as a group! There were only two sick kids
and they did not share the same pathogens. There were never four sick
kids as advertised. Suffice it to say there was great government embarrassment
and liability after the true facts were collected and exposed.
In the end, the government official statement said that "there
was no connection
between raw milk and any illnesses" (Fresno Bee front page CDFA
statement
reference).
CDFA then settled with OPDC for a large cash settlement payment and
a mutual release of liability in exchange for not being sued for the
"false recall". OPDC signed this settlement several months
ago.
AB1735 is "CDFA Payback" for this settlement embarrassment
and the "false recall". This sneak attack was because CDFA
knows full well that they do not have the political support or the science
to address raw milk consumers or producers to their faces.
We need your help to save raw milk in California. The entire raw milk
movement is
being attacked when raw milk is attacked in California or any place.
You the
consumer is being attacked and being denied your right to chose living
whole foods.
It is time to fight for your health and your lives, because that is
exactly what is
on the line. Sterilized and preserved food brings on immune depression,
allergies
and illness. Antibiotics then make it all that much worse. 80 percent
of the human immune system is made up of bacteria in our gut. When they
die we die!! We need good bacteria badly. The crisis in MRSA and VRE
infections are directly associated with weak immune systems and antibiotic
abuse. Most all chronic diseases and immune depression are healed by
whole bio-diverse and enzyme rich foods....raw milk. Raw milk is at
least 800 times more biologically diverse than even good yogurt.
Please go to www.organicpastures.com
for specific directions on what to do and who to call. Addresses, contact
information and legislative representative names are available here:
http://www.organicpastures.com/ab1735_landing.html
High on our priority is our Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Secretary
of
Agriculture A.G Kawamura, and all the state legislators.
This a raw milk health revolution....do not let it be our generation
that lost this
fight. We owe it too ourselves and our children to win this and place
these GOT DEAD MILK protectors on notice that this is a democracy and
due process and
representation still matters. Sneak Attacks will not be tolerated by
the raw milk
consumers or producers of California or our nation.
You are requested to attend a rally and press conference at 1130 at
the Fresno
Farmers Market at Shaw and Blackstone avenues on Saturday October 27th.
I will be speaking to the press and they need to hear your voices loud
and clear. We expect a huge turn out and we need everybody that can
come. Raw milk will be on sale for all that come. Movie stars are invited...Arnold
needs to hear from you.
Try your best to attend the rally wear a shirt that supports raw milk
and your right to eat whole living foods!
Stand now and be counted!!! See you in Fresno at the Farmers Market
on Saturday.
Only living milk brings life!!
Mark McAfee
Founder OPDC
1-877 RAW MILK
http://www.organicpastures.com
"When you are right you can not be too radical, when you are wrong
you can not be too conservative". MLK.
Raw Milk and Living Foods are Right!!
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