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November 5, 2011

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Today's Guests:

Karine Bouis-Towe is a health freedom advocate, and member of the Grass Fed On the Hill Buying Club and the Farm Food Freedom Coalition at http://www.FarmFoodFreedom.org

David Gumpert is author of the book, The Raw
Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights. He also writes a blog on food rights, http://www.thecompletepatient.com.

Max Kane is a leader in the food freedom movement and is currently in a 3 year legal battle with the State of Wisconsin where is his is on petition with the supreme court.  He studies constitutional law and travels the country speaking on the subject of food rights and dietary privacy. More info at http://rawmilkparty.com/

RawMilkFreedomRiders.com

100 gallons distributed in front of FDA headquarters in peaceful demonstration Tuesday Nov 1, 2011

Photo Album of Raw Milk Protest on Tuesday November 1, 2011

FDA Nov 1st Statement

"With respect to the interstate sale and distribution of raw milk, the FDA has never taken, nor does it intend to take, enforcement action against an individual who purchased and transported raw milk across state lines solely for his or her own personal consumption."

PROTEST: Md. moms serve raw milk outside FDA

Written by Brandon Cooper

SILVER SPRING — Got protests?

A group of Maryland moms served raw milk and cookies in front of the Food and Drug Administration headquarters on Tuesday, urging the agency to drop its longstanding ban on selling unpasteurized milk across state lines.

The group of about 15 mothers and other supporters - calling themselves the "Raw Milk Freedom Riders" - purchased raw milk from a Pennsylvania farm and caravanned to Silver Spring to protest the ban.

But raw milk tastes better than pasteurized milk and has health benefits for children, said Liz Reitzig, a mother and co-founder of the Farm Food Freedom Coalition, which sponsored the protest.

"The (FDA) is undermining our authority as parents," she said.

Read full story:
http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20111101/NEWS01/111101031/PROTEST-Md-...

Protest against feds focuses on raw-milk rules

By Bob Unruh
World Net Daily

Protesters distributed an estimated 100 gallons of raw milk in front of the offices of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today during a rally that prompted the federal agency to issue a statement defending its crackdown on the product.

The event was organized by the Farm Food Freedom Coalition and a spokesman for the rally, Max Kane, told WND that a caravan of vehicles collected the supplies of raw milk, then traveled to Silver Springs, Md., to the FDA offices for the protest.

The distribution was in violation of federal law that prevents people from moving raw milk across state lines for delivery to others, and the rally participants were met by officers from the Department of Homeland Security and others.

But Kane said there were no conflicts, no arrests and no violence.

The FDA’s statement said that the dangers from raw milk make it necessary for the agency to impose restrictions.

“While the perceived nutritional and health benefits of raw milk consumption have not been scientifically substantiated, the health risks are clear,” the statement said. “Since 1987, there have been 143 reported outbreaks of illness – some involving miscarriages, still births, kidney failure and deaths – associated with consumption of raw milk and raw milk products that were contaminated with pathogenic bacteria such as Listeria, Campylobacter, Salmonella, and E. Coli.”

However, a report from the Weston A. Price Foundation revealed that from 1980 to 2005 there were 10 times more illnesses from pasteurized milk than from raw milk.

[ThirdRailBlog NOTE: I am attempting to secure the report that WND refers to and confirm the reliability of this assertion. As of 11/5/11, have not secured.]

That’s the preferred process by the federal government.

Full story: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=363085

Group of moms defies U.S. law in raw milk protest

Washington -- A self-described "caravan of criminal mothers" defied federal law Tuesday by transporting raw milk across state lines from a Pennsylvania farm and drinking it in front of the Food and Drug Administration headquarters in Maryland.

"It's totally natural for me as a parent to want to feed my children good food that makes them healthy," said Liz Reitzig, 31, a mother of five in Bowie, Md., who organized the protest. "In this case that is fresh, clean, raw milk from farmers we know and trust. The idea that we become criminals for engaging in that transaction is what is so appalling."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/01/MNRG1LP5LU.D...

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Additional Resources:

Timeline of FDA raids

on raw milk farmers, dietary supplement makers and natural medicine practitioners
Natural News

The Rawesome Raid and the Controversy Over Raw Milk

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/04/the-rawesome-raid-and-ra...

Commerce Clause Abuse by the Feds

The Commerce clause in the 14th Amendment declares that Congress shall “regulate Commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” The term “regulate” back then meant literally to “make regular trade or exchange,” not “all gainful activity,” as the usurpers have asserted since. “Among the States” meant precisely what it says – trade or exchange between one state and another – not commerce that might have an “effect” on another state. This interpretation has allowed for countless abuses of our rights under the Constitution, using the Commerce clause to create the “substantial effects rule” that allows the federal government to regulate/control any activity that has an “effect” on something.

At the core of this legal manipulation is access to and control of individual wealth and resources. For example, again in Chapter 4: “In Wickard V. Filburn (1942), the court ruled that the federal government could regulate the amount of wheat grown on an individual’s farm even though the wheat never left the state, and the farmer and his livestock consumed it themselves. Had they not grown and consumed that wheat, the argument went, they might have purchased it from another state, and hence their abstention from this commerce indirectly affected interstate commerce.”

According to Woods, this absurd ruling is the foundation of how control began to pass to the federal government and away from the states and its peoples.

Full story: http://www.rcreader.com/commentary/what-makes-you-a-good-loyal-american/