Raw Milk: Call for Action

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Take Action Now – Raw Milk – Michael Schmidt Hunger Strike

As many of you already know Michael Schmidt is on a hunger strike. This is day #19 and he is getting weaker by the day. Many of us are getting very concerned about this and I have been asked to circulate this letter so that people can take action. As you will see when you read Michael’s letter to Dalton McGuinty, what he is asking is not out of line and should be part of his rights as a Canadian citizen. . . .
From http://balanceyourapple.com/2011/10/18/take-action-now-raw-milk-michael-schmidt-hunger-strike/

Dalton McGuinty Premier of Ontario

Queen's Park Office 111 Wellesley St. W.
Toronto, ON M7A 1A1 Tel: (416) 325-1941 Fax: (416) 325-3745

Email: dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

Ted McMeekin — Minister Of Agriculture, Food And Rural Affairs tmcmeekin.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

Deb Matthews — Minister Of Health And Long-Term Care dmatthews.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

Dr. Eric Hoskins — Minister Of Children And Youth Services ehoskins.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org

Raw Milk is one issue that seems common to many countries.

The Food Supply in general, GMO's, Organic Farms.

The Panic of 1873 was the start of the Long Depression, a severe nationwide economic depression in the US that lasted until 1879. In 1874 thousands of unemployed demonstrated in NY’s Tomkins Square Park. The largest demonstration ever at that time. The NBER dates the contraction following the panic lasted from Oct 1873 to Mar 1879. At 65 months, it's the longest-lasting contraction identified by the NBER, eclipsing the Great Depression's 43 months. Following the end of the episode in 1879, the U.S. economy remained unstable, experiencing recessions for 114 of the 253 months until Jan 1901.
The depression began with a building boom in Europe, with rapid building construction taking place in Vienna, Paris and Berlin.
Mortgages were easy to get and large British banks happily made loans to developers. Mortgages were also available from new savings banks designed for the middle-classes. People used half-completed buildings as collateral because credit was so easy to obtain. This created a housing bubble.
The crisis hit when Russia and Central Europe couldn’t compete with American exports of wheat and other crops, including kerosene which undermined the use of rapeseed oil for cooking. Banks no longer wanted to lend so easily. Eventually the stock market in Vienna crashed and the crisis spread to Western Europe.
http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/03/housing-bubble-of-1870s-long-depression.html
http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2009/05/financial-crisis-of-1870s-lessons-from.html
http://pvrguymale.blogspot.com/2011/09/black-blizzards-and-black-rollers.html

California apparently does allow the sale of raw milk but requires a permit to do so.


"Some Like It Raw", an article on raw milk legislation and the appalling behavior of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, with evidence of influence by large dairy lobbying organizations.
"The Revolution Will Not Be Pasteurized", an article on raw milk, consumers, laws, and microbes good and bad.

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I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be! We know things are bad - worse than bad, They're crazy! It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone!' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone! I want you to get MAD! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad! You've got to say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!" So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! Network is a 1976 film about a TV network that cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for its own profit. It is an Academy Award winning film and #66 on the AFI's 100 Movies list.

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