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Foundation ® President’s Message
Education  Research  Activism
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Sally Fallon Morell, MA, President
Tom Cowan, MD, Vice President
Carolyn Biggerstaff, Secretary
Valerie Cury, Treasurer
Pam Schoenfeld, MS, RD, Government Relations
Pete Kennedy, A Campaign for Real Milk
At our conference awards banquet, we officially launched a
BOARD MEMBERS IN MEMORIAM new directive—designed to increase support of our farmers and
Mary Enig, PhD, FACN, CNS
Jerry Brunetti ensure we are all eating a healthy diet. It is called the 50 Percent
Fred Kummerow, PhD
Kim Schuette, CN Pledge. We are asking all members to pledge to spend at least 50
Cherie Calvert
percent of their food budget in direct purchases from farmers and
GENERAL COUNSEL artisans. Foods you purchase direct include raw milk, raw cheese
James Turner, Esq.
and other raw dairy products; pastured meat, poultry and eggs;
HONORARY BOARD
Jen Allbritton, BS, CN artisan foods like sourdough bread, ferments and broth; and even
Naomi Baumslag, MD, MPH prepared foods like soups, stews and casseroles.
Marie A. Bishop, CDC
Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCH, RSHom(NA) It’s not hard to do! Contact your nearest local chapter or visit
Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD
Lee Clifford, MS, CCN realmilk.com to find a farm near you. Nothing close by? Then
Christapher Cogswell, MA
Monica Corrado look into a buyers group or delivery service—there are hundreds
Janice Curtin of them, all over the U.S., and your chapter leader can tell you
Eric Davis, BDSc, DAc, DCN
Maureen Diaz where they are near you. Still nothing that is convenient? Then
Sara Bachman Ducey, MS, CNS
Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD consider banding together with a group of friends to set up your
Ruth Ann Foster, MA own food drop—we have many farmers who are glad to oblige.
Donna Gates, BS, Med
Joann S. Grohman And there are always farmers markets—just make sure that the
Laura Hayes, BA
Suzanne Humphries, MD vendors you purchase from are growing the food that they sell.
Mark A. Kastel
Felix Liao, DDS So, please renew your efforts to make direct farm purchases,
Karen Lyke, BA, MS, DSc but don’t think you have to do without some of your favorite foods
Leslie Manookian
Kilmer McCully, AB, MD, MA (hon) like rice, pineapples and bananas. I like to say that with the part
Judith McGeary, Esq.
Leigh Merinoff of your food budget that you are not using to support local farms,
Carlos Monteiro you can celebrate how small the world has become. I recently
Kenneth Fielding Morehead, DOM
David Morris, BS, DC learned that almost every commercial airplane carries a delivery
Ronda Nelson, PhD, MH, CNC
Hon. Frank Niceley of fresh produce—coming from California, or South America or
Jill Nienhiser, BS, MA
Suroush Niknamian, BSc even New Zealand. These planes would be flying anyway, so the
Sandrine Perez cornucopia of fresh produce that we find in our local stores has a
Kathryne Pirtle, BS, MA
Gerald Pollack, PhD very small footprint. What’s more, a lot of produce coming from
Jessica Prentice
Phil Ridley overseas is organic. So it’s no problem to support your local farmer
Bruce Rind, MD and also enjoy strawberries in December.
Sir Julian Rose, BT
Julia Ross, MA We had a wonderful conference in Texas—the speakers were
Beverly Rubik, BS, PhD
Joel Salatin the best, and we will be presenting some of the talks in future is-
Adrienne Samuels, PhD
Stephanie Seneff, BS, MS, EE, PhD sues of Wise Traditions. You can also order conference recordings
C. Edgar Sheaffer, VMD from Fleetwood through a link from our home page.
Ted Spence, DDS, ND
Alana Sugar, CN Wise Traditions 2020 will be located in Portland, Oregon,
Beverly B. Teter, PhD, FACN, CNS
John Umlauf November 13-15. Mark your calendars!
Susun S. Weed
David Wetzel, BS We wish all of you a new year filled with good health and
Bruce West, DC meaningful work—and lots of local and artisan food!
Louisa L. Williams, MS, DC, ND
Lindsea Willon, MS, NTP
Will Winter, DVM

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