Canadian Farmer and Eight Others on Hunger
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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 |
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Canadian farmer Michael Schmidt, whose farm has twice been the subject of armed raids (in 1994 and 2006), was convicted by Ontario Justice Peter Tetley on September 28th of "selling and distributing raw milk and raw-milk products." So, for the second time in five years, Schmidt has gone on a Hunger Strike for Responsible Food Freedom, and has been joined by eight others in Canada and the United States. As of October 11th, he has given up all food (at first he was still drinking raw milk once a day) and is drinking only water. Two of those joining him are Wisconsin's own Vernon Herschberger and Max Kane. His demands?
I respectfully ask that the Ontario and BC governments agree to a constructive dialogue on how we can provide a framework to enable people to make real choices about their food and what they eat, beginning with raw milk and the implementation of a framework that grants legal standing for cow share operations in Ontario and BC. This objective also includes the end of the current prosecutions of cow shares which meet proper production standards.A large group in Toronto has joined Schmidt on a rotational fast in support of and respect for his fight.Ireland to Ban Raw Milk "As Soon As Possible": The Irish Times wrote (10/5/11) that Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney has promised to ban raw milk "as soon as possible." Raw milk producers have been fighting to keep their right to sell raw milk to customers. The ban would not apply to milk to be made into cheese or not intended for sale. The Campaign for Raw Milk has called the proposed ban a "missed business opportunity."
Why is the government putting its resources into shutting down raw-milk producers, a teeny-tiny "industry," when there are many more serious threats to food safety on factory farms? (In fact the overwhelming majority of illnesses tied to milk and cheese come from pasteurized products.) While Amish dairymen are being raided by the F.D.A., Jack DeCoster, the notorious Iowa egg producer whose filthy, salmonella-infected eggs were linked to an outbreak that sickened more than 1,500 people last year, received a mild warning letter from the F.D.A. What is going on here? Sounds like political theater to me.
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