Raw Milk Defense Fund? (was: Re: A request for ideas)

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>> wow, great story. What good news. I wonder how feasible it would be

>> to start a 'raw milk defense fund'?

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> Isn't that basically what the Weston A. Price Foundation is?

I was thinking more hands-on, something with:

1. Lawyers that would take cases like what's happening to the

Brunner's, or what just happened in LA, on for free. That way raw

milk dairy farmers won't get buried financially by the legal

machinery of the agricultural departments.

2. Regular non-lawyer folks who could donate money to keep the

dairies at a subsistance level while they are shut down.

3. People that know about accounting and running non-profit

organizations and whatnot to organize the whole thing.

4. (the easy part), have a central website - probably the

realmilk.com - act as a central repository of raw milk related

research, so that its easily available to everyone. Right now, the

raw milk related health info is pretty scattered and hard to dig up.

I'd like to see some really thorough literature reviews that go

through the issue point by point.

I'd be willing to do #2 - its all I'm qualified for!

Maybe I'm being over-idealistic, but these small dairies are the

heart of the movement. I don't think we can allow them to be shut

down one by one. We never know when the local agricultural inspectors

will get a bug up their ass and try to shut down *our* raw milk

source. But if it becomes common knowledge in state regulatory bodies

that a bunch of extremely passionate (zealous?) raw milk supporters

from across the entire nation will fight to the bitter end for every

last tiny dairy selling raw milk, then they won't act like bullies

anymore. Think about the environmental movement - they actually scare

big business now and the environmental impact of new buildings and

whatnot are taken very seriously. We have to make it abundantly clear

that we will win any and every war of financial and legal attrition

over raw milk.

just my $0.02