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Food is food is food, is what they want us to believe. We are a thorn postings. For example, farmer Scott Traut-
in their side. man in Wisconsin was cut off from selling
We are bringing up unpleasant ideas that they don’t want to think milk, so he is using blogs and Facebook to
about. get the word out.
William Marler, the personal injury lawyer who has mounted several
lawsuits against raw milk, has now admitted that raw milk sold only di- 2. Monitor the regulators. They monitor the
rectly from farms might be acceptable. Yet, he thinks we are willing “to real milk site. They watch what we are doing
accept a few dead people to get our milk!” on the Internet. We need to turn the tables
and monitor the regulators.
A WAR GOING ON
We have a war going on. The FDA is leading the war. They are ada- 3. Support the organizations that are fighting
mantly opposed to our having raw milk. for food freedom, like the Farm-to-Con-
The battle over raw milk is a proxy battle. Food safety people want sumer Legal Defense Fund and the Weston
all food “treated” before we eat it. Raw milk is the first skirmish. A. Price Foundation.
In Georgia, Illinois, Wisconsin new raw milk battles have erupted.
There is a full fledged campaign against raw dairy in Wisconsin. Two 4. Be a stickler for safety, and let your supplier
FDA officials have identified twenty milk clubs in Illinois. They want to know you worry about safety. Each outbreak
go after one milk club at a time, even suspending the dairies’ licenses. of illness from raw milk is ammunition to
It all reminds me of a book I read recently called Family Properties. the regulators, and they use it to maximum
The book is about the author’s father who was a lawyer involved in Chi- advantage.
cago racial politics. During the period of discrimination against blacks,
her father had been defending people involved in race riots. Her father was 5. Keep consuming raw milk! Our nation’s
tailed by the authorities. It was determined that he wasn’t a communist, capitalist orientation is in our favor—buying
yet the FBI kept her father under surveillance the rest of his life. raw milk means that the demand will be a
The government tends to need enemies. The Soviet Union, terrorists, powerful change agent.
and “nutritionally dense food” advocates are the enemy.
The Awards Banquet closed with a thank you to
WHAT WE CAN DO David from Sally Fallon Morell, president of the
Still, there is plenty that we can do. I have five suggestions: Weston A. Price Foundation. She credited him
for his hard work covering the raw milk issue
1. Keep shining the light of exposure on what is happening. Continue from both sides. She then gave us her reaction to
the process of education. Fight back with videos, blogs, Facebook his keynote: “There is no force on earth greater
than the informed consumer!”

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