Re: OOPS OT-Save raw milk in California

[Guest guest]

I apologize profusely, I have just received information that this email

might not be entirely factual. I am very sorry if I caused any

inconvenience to anyone. I am waiting for an update from the Weston Price

Foundation. They will send a notice, about what is really going on.

Irene

At 09:55 AM 1/1/2008, you wrote:

>Although this only affects you directly if you live in California, if it

>isn't reversed it can have a negative effect on raw milk all over the US.

>Anyway, if anyone is interested you can read the story here:

>

> " California's two raw milk producers filed suit Thursday to keep the state

>from imposing a strict new standard that, they say, would put them out of

>business. "

>

><http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/28/BAAPU5K48.DTL>http\

://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/28/BAAPU5K48.DTL

>

>A letter explaining the situation from Claravale dairy:

>

> " We already have an excellent and well constructed raw milk testing

>protocol in California which includes bacterial counts and tests for all of

>the pertinent pathogens. The state has not been able to shut us down with

>these regulations not because the regulations are insufficient but because

>our product is clean and safe. So now they come up with a new regulation

>that contributes not at all to product safety nor, at the bacterial levels

>we are talking about, to product quality. Rather, the regulation seems to

>be solely for the purpose of limiting the raw milk industry in the state to

>an insignificant level that would be entirely inadequate to meet the

>demands of the people of California for raw milk. "

>

><http://www.saverawmilk.org/claravaleletter>http://www.saverawmilk.org/claraval\

eletter

>

>Information on raw milk activism in California:

><http://www.saverawmilk.org/>http://www.saverawmilk.org/

>

> " Presently, raw milk is tightly controlled and rigorously tested by the

>state, and it is as safe as, if not safer than, factory-farmed pasteurized

>milk. Nevertheless, even though raw milk has not caused any disease

>outbreak, health department officials slipped into the 2007 California Farm

>Bill a new and scientifically baseless regulation that will cause raw milk

>to pass inspection only about half the time -- which means that our raw

>dairy farmers will be forced to either dump half of their product, or sell

>that half of it, for much less money, to the big industrial distributors --

>who will pasteurize it. Either way, they will lose a large proportion of

>the value of their business. "

>

>Irene

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