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 ...
I don’t sell anything.
You’re here trying to sell the ugliest lies you can find; is it lucrative?
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.
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.
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.)
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!
You obviously don’t know what a scientist is?
You’ve been misled by the mainstream media. (Snicker)
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?
Great... now I am hungry for rhubarb. LOL
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, from cantalope.
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.
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”?
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