Posted on 11/07/2011 6:53:17 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, November 2, 2011 – They escaped arrest. The “raw milk freedom riders” who illegally transported raw milk from a farm in Pennsylvania to FDA headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland and then drank it and distributed it to a crowd rallied in support of their efforts got away with their crime.
As reported yesterday in this column, this group of raw milk activists planned the ride and rally to protest government restrictions on the sale of raw milk and the spending of taxpayer money to raid and bankrupt small family farms.
The rally began at noon as the swelling crowd gathered to hear speakers and await the arrival of the caravan, which, after celebrating its arrest-free arrival, gave out milk and cookies for all to enjoy.
In the crowd of 150 were raw milk supporters from Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Ohio and throughout the DC Metro area. Said Kimberly Hartke, publicist for the Weston A. Price Foundation:
“The rally was celebratory, as the moms, with joy, took back their power and acted out their food sovereignty as citizens of a free country.”
Organizer Karine Bouis-Towe of the Farm Food Freedom Coalition read a statement from the Obama administration that said:
“Barack Obama and Joe Biden recognize that local and regional food systems are better for our environment and will support family-scale producers. They will emphasize the need for Americans to buy fresh and local.”
(Excerpt) Read more at communities.washingtontimes.com ...
***You have a weird pasture!***
Wild green onions grow everywhere here! Even the weed killers will not kill them out.
You are an ardent liar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /sarc
Your link is joke.
Your attitude and your posts are the reason people think conservatives are cranks.
Sometimes I suspect the focus on treating the symptoms instead of the problem is like a vampires fang in the pocket book.
For goodness sakes no matter what vitamins you take someone will tell you the pills are defective somehow.
Of course the solution will be to buy Brand X (its the old AmWay pyramid scheme even if its some other brand).
There's your problem.
I drank raw milk from my mother, then from cows until the age of 5, when my sister was born.
My parents, then being considerably more prosperous, fed her first formula, then store-bought pasteurized milk.
I have been relatively disease and allergy-free most of my life and she has had and continues to have numerous health problems.
Correlation is not causation.
People need to get a grip on that. I could say my sister’s eaten far “healthier” than I, but here she has Stage IV breast cancer - thanks to being the rare kind. (Of course, I also have numerous chronic problems which she never had, since the age of 35; before that I was in tip-top shape.)
“Your attitude and your posts are the reason people think conservatives are cranks.”
Actually, it might be pointed out that this *particular* “attitude” is EXTREMELY typical of liberals (although I’ve found no shortage of conservatives on this bandwagon).
I’m a big proponent of everything American Famer.
I farmed until some years back, I still have friends who farm, some in dairy, so I’m familiar, first hand, with how food is produced and handled, and many of the dangers that you scoff at.
From your own statements, and from my first hand experience, I know what a fool you are.
But, it’s your right to be a fool.
Ah, the ‘scientific’ approach I see.
How could I possibly dispute that?
Should I feel offended that you think I’m so stupid?
Please don’t make it personal. I very carefully phrased my posts to ensure I criticized your words, not you.
Now, I feel the stupid one, cause I cannot figure out how you got to I think your stupid! I was talking about milk, not eagles...
When it comes to the question "are you going to believe what you see with your eyes or what a scientist tells me to believe", I go with the eyes every time.
So now you can think I am stupid and we are even. -grin-
No, you know what a fool you are.
The fact that you were an irresponsible “farmer” should in no way impugn real farmers.
The world did quite well with real, raw milk, for millenia; since pasteurization came along the western world’s people have had their general health destroyed. Never before have so many people poisoned themselves with so many ineffective but harmful drugs. The incidence of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes have increased eightfold.
Aha!
Just as I thought.
Step 1: Scare people with a dangerous crisis
Step 2: Suggest the solution is X
Step 3: Sell them AmWay’s version of X
Pathetic.
Wow - pasteurization is the source of most modern ailments.
Selling AmWay vitamins must be very lucrative.
Oldest one of ten . all of us grew up on raw milk, churned our own butter, ate breakfast cereal with real cream and made real ice cream in the summers. Strangely none of us died from it.
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