Raw Milk advocates nationwide and worldwide can learn from each other and help each other!
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Jan. 2008 - UPDATE: Help keep CA Raw Milk available and easily accessable!
Please consider joining Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund,
to help protect our raw milk sources.
see http://www.ftcldf.org/ and http://www.ftcldf.org/become-a-member.html
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Update: URGENT ALERT!!! Government Sneak Attack on California Raw Milk
January 2008: updates at -
http://organicpastures.com/ab1735_landing.html
also see www.thecompletepatient.com
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From Organic Pastures: Read Analysis of AB1735
Help save your real milk. Here's what you can do: Details at http://organicpastures.com
* Contact law makers in California. Find specific law makers and sample letters. Start writing now!
* Write a letter to the editor of your area newspaper. When it appears in print, send OP the link and they will link to it .
* Write an article on your blog. Send OP the link. They will link to it .
* Read what others are saying.
Did you know that strains of coliform bacteria are beneficial and crowd out pathogenic forms?
Did you know that strains of coliform bacteria produce B vitamins? Read more in our Analysis.
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Reno:
Organic Pastures products, including Raw Superlite Colostrum, Colostrum, Qephor Cultured Colostrum, and other raw products/dietary supplements
available at Whole Foods in Reno - 775-852-8023
Note: It is best to call them first, to make sure their supply is in!
For more Nevada updates, contact Bari Caine at greenleaf@lycos.com and see www.organiclifestyle.net/
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Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund - http://ftcldf.org/ ( also see below)
Nevada Raw Milk Campaign - this groups purpose is to help educate the public on the benefits and safety of raw milk and to make raw milk easily and legally available to Reno residents.
A series of Reno area Raw Milk educational events will be starting in Sept - more details to be posted soon -
Topics will include:
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Health benefits and safety of raw milk
Legal and political issues
Local Reno access to high quality raw milk!
How to culture raw milk and cream - Easy - Easy - Easy to do!
Cow shares and herd shares
Raw Milk Legal Defense Fund - Nationwide initiative launched on 4th of July, 2007
and much more!
We are arranging for Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy to be our guest speaker soon!
For more information, or to help with this campaign, please contact Bari Caine at greenleaf@lycos.com or call 775-851-8590
A well-informed and articulate public is essential to our freedom of access to raw milk and other healthy foods!!!
Real Raw Milk - Nevada:
Consumer demand is increasing exponentially in Nevada, as it is everywhere!
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Raw milk is legal in California, so consumers can go to CA and buy it!
Organic Pastures Dairy Raw Milk is now in most health food stores throughout CA !!! - see http://OrganicPastures.com
Organic Pastures Dairy cows are grass-fed, humanely raised, free-range, certified organic!
Also Organic Pastures Dairy raw butter, raw cream, raw colostrum, etc -
Ask your nearby health food store to order it for you if they don't already have it in stock! - see http://organicpastures.com
Where to buy Raw Milk in California:
Organic Pastures Raw Milk available at many stores, including:
BriarPatch Community Market (Co-op) - Grass Valley, California 95945 (now in their new, much larger location) 530/272-5333.
For more Gold Country dairy & food resources,contact Shan Kendall - Co-leader of the Gold Country, CA Chapter, WAPF
(530) 478-5628 daveshanken@juno.com
Whole Foods Market in Sacramento - ph. 916-488-2800
Note: It is best to call the store first, to make sure their supply is in!
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More store listings will be posted soon!
We are looking for more stores in Truckee/ Tahoe area, South Lake Tahoe, King's Beach, etc that carry Organic Pastures Dairy Raw Milk.
If you have any updates on raw milk in these locations, please let us know!!
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New! Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund - ftcldf.org/
The FTCLDF was initiated by the Weston A. Price Foundation Board of Directors and is
now a separate 501(c) (4) non-profit organization, modeled after the highly successful Home School Legal Defense Fund.
It is an inexpensive and effective means for both farmers and consumers
to protect their constitutional rights to provide and purchase fresh farm goods
without the burden of over regulation and interference.
As farmers and consumers across America pool their resources,
the funds will be used to protect the rights of farmers and consumers
at local, state and federal levels through the 3 L's - litigation, legislation and lobbying!
Sustainable farming and direct farm-to-consumer transactions
further the common good and general welfare of all Americans.
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Please consider joining!
This is for farmers and consumers, to protect our freedom to buy/ sell the healthy food we want!!!
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*** Organic Lifestyle/ Bari Caine has moved to the Reno, Nevada area ! More raw milk/ dairy updates are continuously being added to this page!
Nevada Raw Milk Campaign - groups are now forming to help educate the public on the benefits and safety of raw milk and to alter the Nevada laws to allow raw milk sales in stores, at farms and by home delivery. Your input is welcome!
A series of Reno area Raw Milk educational events will start soon - details will be posted here .
A well-informed and articulate public is essential to our freedom of access to raw milk and other healthy foods!!!
Strong vocal consumer demand will bring healthful, real raw milk back and have it easily accessable to all!!
For more information, or to help with this campaign, please contact Bari Caine at greenleaf@lycos.com or call 775-851-8590 - and see http://www.organiclifestyle.net/ ---
We now have a contact person in Las Vegas area! See NV listing at http://www.realmilk.com/happening.html --- that site also has other nationwide and worldwide updates.
Also, please consider joining the Weston A. Price Foundation and supporting our positive goals, including informing people about raw milk and working to make it more accessable to everyone, making raw cheese legal, etc.
- see http://www.westonaprice.org/membership/membershipform.html - see link -
The yearly membership fee is US $40. WAPF members receive an informative quarterly journal with valuable updates and articles.
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Buyer BEWARE!
- even though some cheeses are labeled "raw" some of them aren't really raw!!!
some have been heated high enough to kill enzymes & defeat the reasons we buy raw cheese!
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Radio Program: Update!
Note: our Radio Programs are now posted on this website - now everyone can listen online anytime, from anywhere in Nevada and anywhere in the world!!!
Guest: Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy Company in Fresno, Calif - http://organicpastures.com
Topic: Raw, Live, Enzymatic, Probiotic Milk!
Traditional Food for Well-being on Radio Southland 96.4 FM - To listen on-line Any Time - click here.
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Raw Milk DVD- with Mark McAfee:
Highly Recommended! It is a great teaching tool to educate people about the safety and health benefits of raw milk
You can get your own copy from Christina Trecaso at ctrecaso@hotmail.com or phone 330-665-5858
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Updates!
Series of Educational events on raw milk: safety, health benefits, legal issues and more! Starting soon: (Please check back - event dates & locations will be posted)
Does your group, organization, school, or church want a speaker on this important topic? Contact Bari Caine at 775-815-3346
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Recommended reading:
****** Highly recommended:
A new, updated book about Raw Milk by Dr. Ron Schmid called The Untold Story of Milk: Green Pastures, Contented Cows and Raw Dairy Foods has been published by New Trends Publishing - ISBN: 0967089743 ---- see -New Trends Publishing at http://www.newtrendspublishing.com/ - 877-707-1776 -- and see Dr. Ron Schmid's websites ---- see http://www.drrons.com/untoldstoryofmilk.html - and see http://www.drrons.com --- this book is now available in bookstores.
More recommended books below -
Keeping A Family Cow by Joann S. Grohman - Publisher: Coburn Press; (2000) - ISBN: 0963181440 - see http://www.westonaprice.org/book_reviews/familycow.html --- available from amazon.com
The Milk Book by William C. Douglass,MD--- see review --- This informative book has been reprinted, however it is currently being updated, as some of the info is no longer accurate.The Milk Book: The Milk of Human Kindness Is Not Pasteurized by William C. Douglass,MD - Publisher: Rhino Publishing S.A.; (June 2003) - This book is written with humor and zest!
Nourishing Traditions - Sally Fallon - 2nd Edition - New Trends Publishing - see http://www.newtrendspublishing.com/ -- There is lots of fascinating info about raw milk and dairy , as well as lots of recipes on how to make and use cultured raw milk, such as clabber, kefir, sour cream, creme fraiche, farmer's cheese, sourmilk pancakes, breads, etc, Also recipes using fresh raw dairy, such as ice cream, sherbert, and much, much more!
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AUDIOTAPES:
Raw Milk and the Real Freedom to Farm
by Panel of Speakers
Jerry Brunetti, Lee Dexter, Sally Fallon, Will Winter, D.V.M.
These four raw milk activists discuss the real freedom to farm issue -- the right of farmers to direct market raw milk and other traditional, wholesome foods directly to consumers without crippling regulation and fear of government legal and police action against them. Learn what some farmers are doing to meet burgeoning consumer demand for these healthful products.
2004 Acres U.S.A. Conference, audio tape - Item # T-2806.
available at http://www.acresusa.com/tapes/thumbnail.asp?catid=73&pcid=3
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The Science Behind Raw Milk - How Mother Nature Protects its Wholesomeness
by Lee Dexter, M.S.
Learn about the many bioactive components in raw milk that prevent the growth of pathogens, while simultaneously strengthening the health and immune systems of those who drink it. Learn why milk is the only food that has co-developed with humans to assure our growth, maturation, and development. . . . more.
2004 Acres U.S.A. Conference, audio tape - Item # T-2820.
available at http://www.acresusa.com/tapes/thumbnail.asp?catid=73&pcid=3
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IMPORTANT! I recommend that you Store Your Milk and other Food in Glass Not Plastic!l
see - http://www.mercola.com/2003/apr/16/food_storage.htm
Glass canning or preserving jars with wide mouth are available at many supermarkets,
hardware stores, kitchen/ cooking shops and thrift shops in 1 Quart / 1 Litre size and many other sizes. Ask for Mason jars.
The wide mouth makes them easy to clean.
Hammer Hardware has many sizes, large - including 4 and 5 L -
and small ones, good for storing or transporting your milk.
Warehouse has 3 L, 2 L, 1 L and other sizes, also Briscoes has various sizes.
Resale shops, thrift and second hand stores often have glass jars.
Stainless steel "milk billy" containers can be ordered from farm supply stores - more updates will be posted.
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Raw cheese is also under attack nationwide and world wide! see Manifesto in defense of Raw-milk Cheese at http://www.slowfood.com/eng/sf_eventi/sf_eventi_cheese.lasso
Also see Cheese of Choice Coalition on link. ---- "Cheese of Choice Coalition" (or CCC). ----
Oldways and the American Cheese Society organized the CCC to oppose governmental agencies that want to ban production and sale of cheese made from unpasteurized milks.
Worldwide, if such a ban were implemented, the following cheeses would be affected: Parmigiano-Reggiano; Swiss Emmental; Swiss Gruyere; Swiss Appenzell; Vigneron; Comte; Shelburne Farms Vermont Cheddar; Grafton Village Vermont Cheddar; Keen's and Montgomery's English Farmhouse cheddars; Spanish Idiazabal and Manchego; and many others.
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For NATIONWIDE and worldwide info/updates on raw milk, cheese, butter, etc --- see www.realmilk.com
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LEARN WHY RAW MILK IS BEST, and why pasteurized milk is NOT RECOMMENDED!!! --- see http://www.realmilk.com/what.html --- and http://www.realmilk.com/indexpage.html
Ideally, you can find a local farmer who will be willing to sell you high quality raw milk.
If you can't obtain raw milk, try yoghurt, butter or cream, but NEVER use ultra-pasteurized. Regular pasteurization is not as damaging to butter or cream as it it to milk. With yoghurt, many of the enzymes are restored through the culturing process.
Consumer demand is needed to bring healthful, real raw milk back and have it easily accessable to all!!
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Real Milk - USA:
California: Organic Pastures Dairy Raw Milk is now sold in most health food stores throughout California, along with Organic Pastures Dairy raw butter, raw cream, and raw colostrum.!!! They also export to world markets.
"Organic Pastures Dairy Company was founded on a simple principle: care for our cows and the environment, and our milk will be of the highest quality. The herd grazes all day in certified organic pasture.
The cows eat only organic feeds. Unlike conventional dairies, no antibiotics or hormones disrupt the cows' health." -- Mark McAfee
The cows are humanely treated (in fact, each cow has her own name) and are REALLY, REALLY free-range, grass-fed cows!
Organic Pastures Dairy --- see http://OrganicPastures.com ---
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Raw Milk -
Dr. Ron Schmid is on the board of the Weston A. Price Foundation, and is the author of The Untold Story of Milk: Green Pastures, Contented Cows and Raw Dairy Foods
Topics include the role traditional dairy cultures played in the development of civilization;
how politics and economics forced the compulsory pasteurization of milk;
and why many health enthusiasts are now advocating for raw milk.
Please tell your health conscious friends!
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Cigarettes kill people, and they are sold legally ; food additives seriously harm people, and they are sold legally in most processed foods ; Cola drinks destroy teeth and health and they are sold legally; raw milk is good for people, and we should have the choice to buy it everywhere!!!
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For NATIONWIDE and worldwide info/updates on raw milk, cheese, butter, etc --- see www.realmilk.com
****** Organic Lifestyle/ Bari Caine has moved to the Reno, Nevada area USA! More raw milk/ dairy updates are continuously being added to this page! If you have any info about raw milk, cheese, or other raw dairy in NV / CA, please send to Bari Caine at greenleaf@lycos.com or call 775-851-8590 - (Note: my email sometimes doesn't work right - if you don't get a reply by email, try again or try phoning)
If any of these links don't work, try typing the website in yourself ( or cut-and-paste)