We’re playing for all the marbles

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we're not rattled by the BC govt. authorities taking a sample of our milk. As you say, it was ( almost) inevitable

the REAL MILK is flowing today

I had a quick chat with the govt. lawyer yesterday. He's familiar with Schmidt's case in Ontario.

He said "there are constitutional issues here" ... which is very good to hear : it means they have to let us have our say in Court, if they slap a 'Cease + Desist' Order on us.

When I started to tell him that I would be using the recent decision about the heroin injection site to argue that raw milk is necessary for maintaining our health he said "that's my file" … ie. he'd been the provincial govt. counsel who'd prevailed against the federal government on several issues, one of which was `what is `health care'? I said "I knew you'd like it". So we laughed about that.

I am optimistic that the BC govt. will do nothing for now, awaiting what happens in Ontario. If so, we will have effectually won the key point = raw milk is not always and only such a risk to personal and Public health that it must be outlawed.

If Schmidt gets acquitted on any one of his various defences available, then the question will have been answered for all of Canada. If we win here, that precedent becomes a trump card for the Australians too. Although the Crown ( the government) may appeal that decision …. I wouldn't be surprised if they do

If he loses, then we = raw milk fans as a class = will immediately appeal that through three more levels of Court. There is no telling how long an ordeal that will take … I have one of the leading cases in British jurisprudence on another issue, now 9 years since the incident, awaiting a ruling from the BC Court of Appeal. Still got the Supreme Court of Canada to go. I'll be talking to the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords before that one is over … mark my words!

Legal wrangling is outrageously expensive if you have to hire professionals. But it can be done by a determined layman for not all that much $$. Which is why the lawyer's guild is terrified of a mono~maniac loose with the rule book (that would be moi )

But back to the question of whether the provincial govt. will hinder us taking home the milk which our beautiful cows are making today, out on the wonderful green grass

If the authorities can be held in abeyance while the mills of the gods grind slowly ( the appeals) REAL MILK will be normalized. Every day and every jar of raw milk which goes out and is drunk ( drank ? drunken ?) without any illness, is proof that raw milk dairying can be done properly.

Which is the root of the whole issue = every pint of the good stuff which gets delivered, to the delight of a raw milk fan, exposes the gross inferiority of that whiteish fluid which industrial agriculture puts on the shelves labelled 'homo milk'. Informed consumers won't buy it. No wonder the Dairy Cartel is slithering-around behind the scenes, doing its damnedest to put their competition out of business.

Gordon has a little example where he does the arithmetic to show how every dollar taken in by an independent farmer, is a dollar removed from the net profit of Big Dairy

I see the Campaign for REAL MILK and associated food revival movements, as this nation awakening to her heritage, the Law of God. There's a scary thought for the enemies of America, particularly the domestic ones

I urge everyone to get the REAL MILK flowing in your neighbourhood, no matter how small the scale. Prove the concept with a couple of cows delivering milk to the Big City.

At first, the delivery part will be a labour of love. Where I unknowingly 'made it happen' a year ago was by simply going out to the Valley and getting the milk and bringing it in to town.

Yes, I subsidized it, but that's what had to be done at that stage. Keep close track of the expenses and even the $ value of your time as you put in 'sweat equity' to set up the delivery system = call it a loan. Then take that amount of $ out later

A year later and our farmer is grossing about $1000 four days a week with 13 cows in milk, at $17 bucks a gallon. Mostly capitalized by the shareholders. Show me another business which comes anywhere close, for profitability, in that short a time.

If we can stickhandle our way through this test, the Agister's family will be able to buy a farm. One small patch of ground producing REAL MILK = a small but important victory against the communists who sit in the high places in Canada.

Gordon

Burnaby British Columbia

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