99 Comments

1. Kimberly Hartke makes this comment

   Saturday, 25 June 2011

   Artisan, Traditional Dairy products should be available to the consumer in every state. This doesn't mean it has to be available in retail stores. I would like some form of direct farm to consumer sales in every state. Cowshares, farm shares, dairy CSA, farm store sales or home delivery. Conventional dairyman needn't fear allowing consumers options. It seems the more the industry or gov't tries to suppress raw dairy consumption, the more it grows. Prohibition is bad for business. Free and fair trade is good for farmers. As publicist for The Campaign for Real Milk, I hear from many who desperately need raw milk for health reasons. I am one of them. To deny access is wrong, it is to deny life itself, and the pursuit of happiness, ie., wellness. Banning raw milk in a free nation is an embarrassment and a betrayal.

2. Kathleen Corkett makes this comment

   Saturday, 25 June 2011

   Raw vegetables, raw oysters, raw nuts, raw diets...are so nutritionally dense, mass production for mass uptake of nutrients is not necessary. So yes, yes, YES to raw milk, raw cheese, raw yogurt, raw kombucha, raw kefir, raw cream cheese, raw mayonaise, raw fermented foods, etc. And a big no, no, NO to contaminated, unhealthy, battery raised, filthy factory processed, e.coli ridden, super-bug producing, chemically laden products, that are passed through profit driven, subsidized, corporate entities, unbelievably professed as clinically sanitized and "pasteurized", therefore, safer food sources. I will always be able to choose non-GM, no-injection, nutritionally dense food sources from local farmers or become on myself...local grass roots network relationships work regardless of political pendulum swings...always has, always will. Early adopters, followed by mainstreamers, followed by resisters...it's just a matter of patients, education and time. The more you know, the more you grow, from heritage seeds!

3. Angharad Llewellyn makes this comment

   Friday, 24 June 2011

   The government needs to allow people the responsibility of making their own choices about what we want to eat. I want to be able to purchase raw milk and domestic raw cheese.

4. Chef Jem makes this comment

   Friday, 24 June 2011

   I voted "yes", however - Asking whether or not something should be "legal" can be a dangerous question. If you immediately recognize this then you need not read further. Otherwise ask yourself: why would we want to take something that we have as a Right to do and convert it into a legislated act that is somehow declared legal by government and thereby regulated by the government? Does that make really good sense? If you don't want your Rights compromised into something that is merely "legally" permitted and thereby regulated by government to the point where the act can be compromised, minimized, oppressed and possibly taxed out of existence then reconsider this idea of having the thing/s you want by "legal" means. Consider asserting your non-regulated, non-permit issued Rights! Once again - If you have the Lawful Right to do as you please (as long as you cause no injury to others or their property) then is there a good reason to convert your Right into a legal act monitored, controlled (and worse) by government? I guess some people find something attractive about that conversion! (I imagine it's like being converted to a new religion!)

5. Letha makes this comment

   Friday, 24 June 2011

   Yes.... Raw milk should be legal. Let the citizens choose.

6. Alma C. Sychuk makes this comment

   Friday, 24 June 2011

   During and following WW II, all we drink on the farm was raw milk; actually, I do believe that we were healthier then than we are now as a family and as a community.

7. Ann Kneeland makes this comment

   Friday, 24 June 2011

   Yes! If you can buy deli meat, alfalfa sprouts and smoke in public, there is no rational justification for keeping raw milk off the market. Does America have free-market capitalism?...for better or worse!

8. Roy Ozanne, MD makes this comment

   Friday, 24 June 2011

   As a medical doctor, I have had many patients drinking raw milk from healthy pastured cows since the 90's. They get much healthier and not one case of illness in over 15 years from the raw milk. Healthy raw milk should be available for everyone.

9. Ron Burt makes this comment

   Friday, 24 June 2011

   Absolutely, yes. We the people need to speak out, educate one another, and mandate the government exercise our bidding. We need not cower in the face of government policy reflecting ignorance, industry motivation for greater shelf-life, and disregard for the health of the nation. If we don't speak out, who will? Educate your friends, your family, your co-workers and your community on the health benefits of organic, raw, grass-fed milk and dairy products including butter. We the people can shape the policy of government; we need not roll over and play dead. In the case of raw milk, the health of the nation is at stake, not to mention more "humane" treatment of "Industry" animals and the restoration of our soils. Speak out!

10. Petra makes this comment

    Friday, 24 June 2011

    Yes, I want the right to buy raw milk. The govt. shouldn't tell me what I can eat or drink1