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Raw milk supporters rally around 'criminal' moms
The Washington Times ^ | November 2, 2011 | Jessica Claire Haney

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: ban; donutwatch; fda; nannystate; rawmilk
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To: Notwithstanding

I don’t sell anything.

You’re here trying to sell the ugliest lies you can find; is it lucrative?


81 posted on 11/08/2011 3:41:06 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: W. W. SMITH

We did all of that... I have very fond memories of those days.

I remember when I was a little guy, I would occasionally walk into the garden with a salt shaker and eat carrots, radishes and lettuce right out of the garden. Heck, I was a kid, so I didn’t even bother to rinse the stuff off. LOL

I remember when pork chops actually tasted like pork chops.

I long for those wonderful days gone by. Dreams of adventure, imagination becoming reality, pinecone fights, building forts in the woods... toast with homemade butter....... and a cold glass of raw milk.


82 posted on 11/08/2011 4:07:00 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~... Newt/Cain 2012..."Save a pretzel for the gas jets.")
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Best wishes for your sister.

Me and mine have had many engagements with many cancers. None of it is pretty. Sometimes there are good outcomes, sometimes there are not.

Who would have thought that a thread on raw milk would become so heated?

Looks to me like people are so frustrated with everything, they will seize on anything.

83 posted on 11/08/2011 4:15:18 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Gator113
I.m hoping to have my own 'egg producers' next year. There's a farmer down the road who raises/sells game birds as well as regular.

I'd like some partridge for meat - SO good - and he has a breed that lays what I call "Easter eggs" - pale blue in color...(I get them from my "egg man" now...I open a carton and find eggs of all colors from white to ivory to light brown to dark brown - and blue. Neat.)


84 posted on 11/08/2011 4:19:09 PM PST by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: Gator113

Rhubarb and the salt shaker. MMMM

early in my marriage, I was picking green beans and about every fifth bean was going in my mouth. My wife with no gardening experience, came running from the house screaming “ don’t eat those they are poisonous until they have been processed by a factory”. She still has to be faked into eating from the garden!


85 posted on 11/08/2011 4:26:42 PM PST by W. W. SMITH (Obama is an instrument of enslavement)
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To: American in Israel

You obviously don’t know what a scientist is?

You’ve been misled by the mainstream media. (Snicker)


86 posted on 11/08/2011 4:44:11 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: editor-surveyor

I won’t argue with a fool.

I’ll just point out to those who are interested in the truth about food safety on the farm(that’s not you ED), all farms are huge incubators for pathogens.

Farmers have systems in place to help prevent significant parts of this huge lake of potentially deadly germs and viruses from entering the food stream itself.

However, systems are hardly perfect, as the many recent deaths from melons grown in Colorado have vividly demonstrated.

For way of example as it pertains to milk, what comes out of a cow just inches above where the milk is collected? And what do you think is on the floor and on the hooves of the cow as it satnds still to be milked?


87 posted on 11/08/2011 5:00:19 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: W. W. SMITH

Great... now I am hungry for rhubarb. LOL


88 posted on 11/08/2011 5:02:35 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~... Newt/Cain 2012..."Save a pretzel for the gas jets.")
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To: maine-iac7

A ll of my chicken eggs are brown. I think it’s the americana-ameraucana chicken that gives up green eggs. I would like to get a couple next you.

Be sure to follow through with getting those “egg producers”... It’s fun.


89 posted on 11/08/2011 5:08:58 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~... Newt/Cain 2012..."Save a pretzel for the gas jets.")
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To: acapesket
Do not deceive yourself into thinking that the CDC does anything to protect your health. They are way too busy building a health club and spa in Atlanta.

I believe you're directing that at the wrong person. I'm a medical researcher employed by the government, and I visit the CDC website to keep up with current infectious disease information on a weekly basis. I surmise that in your eyes, I'm part of the problem, not the solution.

90 posted on 11/08/2011 5:25:28 PM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Notwithstanding
Given the same cow, pasteurization alone has no effect on the nutrition, taste or texture of that cow’s milk. Its the homogenization of that same milk (pasteurized or not) that changes that same milk’s nutrition, taste and texture. It is dishonest to conflate the two processes (Past. & Homog.).

I disagree. When I was a kid, and my mother went through a phase where she was giving us only raw milk, I found the flavor quite different (and unpleasant). Thank goodness that phase ended when she found a dead fly in her glass of milk.

And if a person does like the taste and texture of non-homogenized milk, then they stir a little heavy cream into a glass of homogenized milk.

There is a farm a few miles away that sells pasteurized non-homogenized milk in glass bottles. So, at least around here, people who want the experience of shaking their milk can have it.

91 posted on 11/08/2011 5:33:02 PM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: American in Israel
Sad thing, the more corporations control health, the worse our health is. Most things I believe can be cured with nutrition, something sorely lacking in the industrialized food system.

Yes, so sad that with all the government regulations, health/sanitation inspectors of all aspects of food production, and so forth, we're living far longer now than our ancestors.

92 posted on 11/08/2011 5:36:33 PM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Notwithstanding

I’ve read it before, but when I saw you quote it, I googled and could not find it. It was very frustrating.

I should probably start bookmarking sites discussing the dangers of raw milk or of failing to vaccinate, so that when these discussions come up, I don’t have to spend long periods of time googling my references.


93 posted on 11/08/2011 5:39:46 PM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
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.

I see. Would you care to share your opinion on the idea that cows can be raised and milk collected hygienically?

BTW, I was a farm girl long before I became a doctor. We had chickens. I remember that every surface in the room where we had lunch was covered in black specks. Fly specks, I think we called them.

94 posted on 11/08/2011 5:52:29 PM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: exDemMom

Well, jolly good for you! Why don’t you visit the new CDC building in Atlanta?
It’s a Five Star Spa.
I have no trust in the CDC and current infectious disease info is all BS.

Where is Lyme in all of that?

You are NOT part of THE PROBLEM...
but your profession is a victim of dis information, provided by our Federal Government and is is perverting your research inadvertantly.

i.e. without your knowledge

If you really want to help us all, you will look into the links between Lyme, ALS, MS and Alzheimers.

I am not sure if Lyme is naturally occuring, but it’s worldwide, politically covered up, and frankly , I am beginning to think it is a leftover bio pathogen from ww2.

plum island and detrick.

No, I am not a nutbag.
JMHO.


96 posted on 11/08/2011 6:31:26 PM PST by acapesket
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To: acapesket

Where do you think the federal government gets all the information that is disseminated by the CDC?

It’s from researchers just like me.

There are very few bureaucrats or politicians in the government that have the slightest clue about research, much less understand enough about it to try to twist it to their own ends.

Politicians listen to the CDC scientists to set policy, not the other way around.

Lyme disease is caused by bacteria carried by ticks. It is not unusual for people to enter an area where people do not normally go, and pick up some disease no one has ever seen before. That’s what happened with Lyme. There are a lot of diseases like that.

The cause and etiology of ALS are still under investigation.

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease, meaning the body is attacking itself.

Alzheimer’s results from proteins clumping in the brain, which destroys brain tissue.

None of those diseases are even related to each other.


97 posted on 11/08/2011 7:18:59 PM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: ken21

Yes, from cantalope.


98 posted on 11/08/2011 7:32:16 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer

si.

anyone that wants to drink raw milk

can, as far as i’m concerned.

i grew up on it on a dairy farm.

here’s the deal—we produced it and we knew it was clean.

our county bacteria counts averaged 17% of the county shut off = a very clean operation.

would i drink raw milk from a corporate dairy farm, employing illegals? nada.


99 posted on 11/08/2011 7:39:05 PM PST by ken21
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To: exDemMom
Sorry Girl.
Thanks for your hard work,
but i call BS on what you are actually being published with and what info you are really being told.

That is what's wrong with this whole process, the politicians are being lobbied by interests who wish to control your flow of information.

The CDC is a hotbed of political hacks, and you, as a researcher are a mere agent of their hackneyed crap.

Nobody with a brain listens to the CDC.

Lymes ticks are everywhere because we do not exterminate deer.

They can come up with a vaccine for dogs (ugh) and not people.
PUHLEEZE!
Sprirochetes are spirochetes, how do they evolve..... they have been keeping on for quite some time.

What makes you brainiacs believe that just because we live in a former first world country that we are not exposed to third world diseases?

The CDC should be disseminating Spa robes and massages for all they are worth.

Deer ticks are all over the world now due to International travel , as are erclichiosia, babesia, etc.
Do you think we live in a “bubble”?

100 posted on 11/08/2011 7:41:02 PM PST by acapesket
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