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The WesTon A. Price President’s Message

FoundATion ®

Education  Research  Activism

Board of directors “All truth passes through three phases: first it is ignored; second
Sally Fallon Morell, MA, President and Treasurer it is violently opposed; third it is accepted as self-evident.” The words
Mary Enig, PhD, FACN, CNS, Vice President
Geoffrey Morell, ND, JP, Secretary of philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer describe the traditional nutrition
Tom Cowan, MD movement in general and the raw milk movement in particular. Today
Cherie Calvert
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN the best gauge of our progress in the raw milk campaign is the fact that
Valerie Cury Joyner
we have moved from the first to the second stage. The recent raids on
GeNeraL coUNseL raw milk producers in Wisconsin and Minnesota, unfounded allegations
James Turner, Esq.
distributed to the media, the Wisconsin governor’s rejection of raw milk
HoNorarY Board legislation passed with overwhelming support—actions all aimed at send-
Jen Allbritton, BS, CN
Christian B. Allen, PhD ing conscientious farmers into bankruptcy and denying nature’s perfect
Naomi Baumslag, MD, MPH
Marie A. Bishop, CDC food to those who need it—indeed, the phase of violent opposition has
Jerry Brunetti begun.
Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD
Lee Clifford, MS, CCN Over the last ten years, the Weston A. Price Foundation has provided
Christapher Cogswell, MA the knowledge about food and nutrition that people need to ensure their
Monica Corrado
Janice Curtin most basic right: good health. Knowledge creates responsibility for those
Eric Davis, BDSc, DAc, DCN
William Campbell Douglass, MD who have compassion and who understand the world in which we live. In
Sara Bachman Ducey, MS, CNS addition, through our membership and chapter system, we have created
James A. Duke, PhD
Carol Esche, DNP, MA, RN, CNA a critical mass of citizens on whose shoulders rests the responsibility for
Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD bringing fundamental change to our world—change that moves from the
Ruth Ann Foster, MA
Donna Gates, BS, MEd “me” to the “we.”
Zac Goldsmith, Editor, The Ecologist
Nicholas Gonzalez, MD For this change to happen, we need to enter a new era of activism.
Trauger Groh To understand the basics of food and nutrition, to become connected
Joann S. Grohman
Barry Anthony Groves with the source of our food, to secure healthy food for ourselves and
Beatrice Trum Hunter, MA
Richard James, MBA, LLD families—this was the first step. The next step is to protect these fledgling
Mark A. Kastel food systems, and to do this in ways that build communities rather than
Larry Klein
Kilmer McCully, AB, MD, MA (hon) destroy them. If we care about our future and our planet, every one of
Frank Melograna, MD us has a moral obligation to get involved in protecting our food and our
Carlos Monteiro
Kenneth Fielding Morehead, DOM farms. It has become clear that the most powerful weapon for controlling
David Morris, BS, DC
Kathryne Pirtle, BS, MA people is diet. Will we have food that dumbs us down and saps our will,
Bruce Rind, MD or food that supports clear thinking and effective action? We must take
Julia Ross, MA
Beverly Rubik, BS, PhD the lead in defending our right for the right food—first and foremost by
Jordan S. Rubin, NMD, CNC supporting those on the front lines, our farmers.
Ethan Russo, MD
Adrienne Samuels, PhD A plan of action: first we must never cease contacting our elected
Jack Samuels, MSHA
Ron Schmid, ND representatives, government employees and the media, always appealing
Andreas Schuld to their better instincts, always in the spirit of education. We must create
Frederick I. Scott, Jr, BE, MS
C. Edgar Sheaffer, VMD an atmosphere in which it is shameful to oppose access to life-giving
Ted Spence, DDS, ND food. And second, we must create farm- and food-centered communities,
Rebecca L. Stearns, LAc, DAc
Alana Sugar, CN centers of food creation, independent of the mainstream. These islands
Krispin Sullivan, CN
Joe Tarantolo, MD of hope can become teaching models for the future—the goal is not to
Beverly B. Teter, PhD, FACN, CNS impose change on the majority, but to be there when individuals make the
John Umlauf
Susun S. Weed decision to come out from among them and take personal responsibility
David Wetzel, BS for their health and their lives. Let us heed Dr. Price’s dying words, “You
Bruce West, DC
Louisa L. Williams, MS, DC, ND teach, you teach, you teach,” as we look ahead to stage three.
George Yu, MD
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