Action On Raw Milk Safety
It is ironic that the very diseases, weather or not, attributed to milk are actually cured by raw milk! Many are are discussed in this excellent summary on the safety of raw milk and is a must read - see also: Health Canada Vs Unpasteurized Milk.
For those in the Michigan area please read Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz (Ph.D. Nutrition) note below and take action. A word document of the letter is also attached here.
See also the note: An Action of "People Powered by Raw Milk" from the Raw Dairy egroup which applies to all in the US.
Chris Gupta
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Hi, everyone,Some of our raw dairy farmers are being attacked in Michigan and Indiana. Please open attached Word document, sign, print your name and address and fax to the number listed for each individual at the bottom of the letter. It is important to jam their fax machines for 1 week with this letter and proof of raw milk safety. They must realize that harassing us will cost them outrage, time and money. Please be diligent. People with names starting with the letters A-H should fax them on Monday, letters I-M should fax them on Tuesday, letters N-Z should fax on Wednesday, and everyone who can, please fax again on Thursday and Friday. Jamming government faxes for a week has worked very well in the past to end harassment. Please be tenacious.
Below is my sample letter to Michigan Food & Agriculture that is in Word document in attached file. We will fax Indiana when appropriate, maybe soon. Accompanying that letter is 4 pages of research proving raw-milk safety to be faxed with your letter. Therefore, a total of 5 pages should be sent; a cover letter stating person to receive the fax will make the entire document 6 pages.
Thank you!
healthfully,
aajonus
-----------------October 23, 2006
Michigan Department of Agriculture
Director Mitch Irwin
524 West Allegan
Lansing, MI 48933
517-335-1423 (Fax)Dear Michigan Department of Agriculture Director Mitch Irwin,
I am appalled that your department obtained probable-causeless warrants on and seized dairy from one of our private clubs. You robbed health-giving raw milk and byproducts from our sibling members', their babies' and childrens' stomachs. Raw milk is not harmful even though most health-department officials and employees believe that it is. The belief that raw milk is risky is unscientifically based and false. I have improved my health significantly with raw dairy products. Pasteurized dairy products did not improve my health and sometimes made me sick. I attach research proving that raw milk is beneficial and pasteurized milk is harmful and sometimes dangerous. It was taken from Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz' (Ph.D. Nutrition) book The Recipe For Living Without Disease (2002), Chaper 31. I hope that the Michigan Agriculture Department will be open-minded to the factual issues of raw milk in the future.
Please stop harassing people who choose health-giving raw foods. Allow me and my family to choose what we have experienced is healthy for us. You are not God. Thank you for your consideration to this life-important matter.
Sincerely,
(print your name &
address)
cc:Larry Perreault, Regional Office Manager and Regional Supervisor (Fax) 989-757-7505
Elizabeth Hunt, Dairy Section Regional Supervisor (Fax) 989-757-7505
Michael Juhasz, Food Section Regional Supervisor (Fax) 989-757-7505
Katherine Fedder, Director Food & Dairy Division (Fax) 517-373-3333
Terry Philibeck, Regional Office Manager and Dairy Section Regional Supervisor (Fax) 616-356-0622
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Raw-milk-drinking safety is scientifically and empirically based.
Infant Safety, Health Benefits, Propagandized False Risks From Feeding Raw Milk, And The Harm Of Feeding Infants Pasteurized And Other Processed Milk.Consistent with most doctors' modern beliefs, they prescribe food and therapies for infants and children that have created disease in our children. Unscientific propaganda issues from them constantly. They say that raw milk is dangerous for infants, causing bacterial food-poisoning and death without one credible scientific experiment to support that theory. I present to you many published reports from the first 5 decades after pasteurized and processed milks were introduced to the public. They prove that feeding infants pasteurized or processed milk is dangerous and causes disease. They prove that feeding infants raw milk is safe and healthful.
In 1984, William Campbell Douglass, Jr., M.D., presented considerable clinical evidence to the world that drinking pasteurized milk resulted in degrees of osteoporosis and bone malformation, diabetes, and many other diseases. Also, he provided clinical evidence from the same sources that drinking raw milk reversed osteoporosis, bone malformation, diabetes and many other diseases. He cited the findings of studies documented at the following universities and clinics: Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge, Dartmouth, Tufts, the Washington University School of Medicine, the University of Georgia Dairy Science Department, the Ohio State University School of Agricultural Chemistry, and Mayo Clinic of Minnesota.
He presented testimony confirming those findings from the following medical journals and publications: The Lancet, JAMA, World Cancer Research Fund journal, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, Consumer Reports, Consumer's Union, Hartford's prestigious St. Vincent's Hospital Report, Certified Milk Magazine, American Association of Medical Milk Commission Report, Milk Industry Foundation Report, and The Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation Newsletter.
Colic is a concern with infants who are fed pasteurized milk. One of every five babies suffers colic. Pediatricians learned in the early 1900s that pasteurized cows' milk was often the reason. A more recent study linked pasteurized cow's milk consumption to chronic constipation in children. Those researchers observed that pasteurized milk consumption resulted in perianal sores and severe pain during defecation, leading to constipation. [1]
Dr. Francis Pottenger, Jr., MD observed several infants. They were born of mothers known to be hypothyroid. Prior to the birth of those infants, the mothers had given birth to children within three years. Each of the previous children suffered asthma, infantile rickets, and skeletal underdevelopment. In one experiment, the baby girl that had been fed formulas since birth was always sickly. The formulas included powdered milk, pasteurized milk, boiled milk, boiled certified milk and canned milk. She suffered severe gastric distress during her infancy. When she was 8-months young, she developed asthma. She was undersized, considering her parents had large builds. Contrarily, the healthy child was breast fed from birth. The mother drank raw milk and lived under excellent health-promoting conditions.[2]
Dr. Weston Price, D.D.S., proved fifty years ago that processed milk leads to disease and premature death.[3] He also showed that processed food, such as pasteurized milk, causes poor development of facial bones. Nizel of Tufts University reported that decayed teeth were four times more common in pasteurized-milk-fed babies as opposed to raw-milk-fed babies.
Dr. A. F. Hess wrote in his abstracts that pasteurized milk was an incomplete food. He proved that many infants developed scurvy on a diet of pasteurized milk. The form of scurvy took some months to develop and was termed subacute. He considered it not only the most common form of scurvy but also the one that passes most often unrecognized.[4] The infants were cured of scurvy when raw milk was substituted. Regarding his tests, he stated that, taken in conjunction with the fact that they fed the same number of infants on raw milk as pasteurized milk, cases of scurvy did not develop in infants on raw milk. He stated that their test-results were sufficient to warrant the deduction that pasteurized milk is a causative factor in infant scurvy.
Dr. Pottenger proved there is deficiency disease similar to Vitamin C deficiency (scurvy) that can be cured by giving an endocrine product that contains no Vitamin C. He proved that raw milk naturally contains that endocrine nutrient and that pasteurized milk does not. He proved that raw milk reversed and prevented scurvy.
Stefansson, an anthropologist working for the U.S. government, reported that an Arctic sea-captain who ingested high amounts of Vitamin C did not reverse his scurvy. After the captain ate raw meat for several days, he completely healed.[5] It was reported in 1942 that grazing cows produced as much Vitamin C as does the entire citrus crop, and that most of it is lost as the result of pasteurization.[6]
In Berlin prior to 1901, rarely was there a case of infant scurvy. In 1901, a large dairy established a pasteurization plant in which all milk was raised to a temperature of about 140° F (60° C). After an interval of months, infantile scurvy was reported from various sources throughout the city.[7] Neumann recorded that he and two other doctors had seen only 32 cases of scurvy from 1896 to 1900. He reported that the number of cases suddenly rose to 83 cases in 1901 and 1902. An investigation was made as to the cause. Pasteurization was discontinued. The number of cases decreased as quickly as they had increased.[8] Neumann also reported that the cases of infantile scurvy were marked by susceptibility to infection, abdominal cramps, nasal diphtheria, furunculosis of the skin, and pneumonia in advanced cases.[9]
Dr. Hess reported that milk-pasteurization that was intended to prevent humans from getting diseases that cows sometimes develop was a waste. He further reported from his observations and tests that infants fed pasteurized milk easily developed common diseases. He stated that deaths from those common diseases should have been attributed to the defective nature of pasteurized milk.[10] Humans do not get bovine undulant fever nor does it naturally transmute into human undulant fever. There is no credible data that proves otherwise.
Dr. J.E. Crewe, from the Mayo Foundation, Minnesota, reported the therapeutic uses of raw milk in 1923. He stressed, from his experiments, that the key-factor was the feeding of raw milk. He stated that while raw milk is widely used and recommended as an article of diet, physicians seldom use it as an agent in the treatment of disease. For 15 years, he employed the raw-milk-diet treatment in various diseases and obtained "uniformly excellent" healing results. Dr. Crewe witnessed rapid improvement in his patients with advanced cases of pulmonary tuberculosis when he utilized raw-milk therapy. That was ironic, considering that tuberculosis of the time was blamed on raw milk. Hippocrates used raw milk to cure tuberculosis.
Research by Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland found that raw milk contained 2½ times more lgG enzyme than pasteurized milk. In the presence of higher levels of lgG, rotavirus that cause diarrhea in infants is not produced.
In 1923, at St. Vincent's hospital in Philadelphia, concern arose for the high death rate among infants from gastroenteritis. Dr. Paul B. Cassidy, M.D., recommended raw milk instead of pasteurized milk. The raw critics panicked, predicting a catastrophic increase in infant deaths. The death rate in infants from gastroenteritis quickly fell by 94%, from a high of 89 in 1922 to less than 5 per year.[11]
Destin was a child who developed asthma as an infant on baby formulas, suffered near-fatal attacks yearly, grew frail, weak, underdeveloped, extremely small for his age, and was on regular medication. Dr. Douglass treated him, at the age of nine, by feeding him raw milk. In six weeks, Destin stopped wheezing for the first time in his life. Destin grew rapidly on the raw-milk treatment, living a normal life thereafter.[12]
A Dutch chemist, Willem J. Van Wagtendork at Oregon State College, proved that pasteurized dairy creates calcification and stiffness. He found that guinea pigs with calcification of the tissues could be relieved with raw cream but not so with pasteurized cream. The active health-giving factor is transmuted and rendered ineffective by pasteurization. John Fowler, M.D., Worcester, Massachusetts reported that raw-milk therapy relieved muscle cramps in pregnancy.
There has never been an epidemic proved caused by raw milk. All epidemics from milk were proved to be caused by pasteurized milk. The following list reveals that pasteurized milk products are dangerous. As Dr. Lee explained, pathogens enter unhealthy cells. Pasteurization kills milk cells. Pathogens multiply rapidly in those cells. If someone eats a product that is full of pathogens, the bacteria will proliferate in a body full of unhealthy cells.
Some Outbreaks Attributed to Bacterial Food-poisoning from PASTEURIZED MILK products
• 19451,492 cases for the year in the U.S.A.
• 19451 outbreak, 300 cases in Phoenix, Arizona.
• 1945Several outbreaks, 468 cases of gastroenteritis, 9 deaths, in Great Bend, Kansas.
• 19781 outbreak, 68 cases in Arizona.
• 1982over 17,000 cases of yersinia enterocolitica in Memphis, Tenn.
• 1982172 cases, with over 100 hospitalized from a three-Southern-state area.
• 19831 outbreak, 49cases of listeriosis in Massachusetts.
• 1984August, 1 outbreak S. typhimurium, approximately 200 cases, at one plant in Melrose Park, IL.
• 1984November, 1 outbreak S. typhimurium, at same plant in Melrose Park, IL.
• 1985March, 1 outbreak, 16,284 confirmed cases, at same plant in Melrose Park, IL.
• 1985197,000 cases of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella infections from one dairy in California.
• 19851,500+ cases, Salmonella culture confirmed, in Northern Illinois.
• 19932 outbreaks statewide, 28 cases Salmonella infection.
• 19943 outbreaks, 105 cases, E. Coli & Listeria in California.
• 19951 outbreak, 3 cases in California.
• 19962 outbreaks Campylobactor and Salmonella, 48 cases in California.
• 19972 outbreaks, 28 cases Salmonella in California.[1] Iacono G, Cavataio F, Montalto G, et al. "Intolerance of cow's milk and chronic constipation in children" N Engl J Med 1998;339:110-4.
[2] "Clinical and experimental evidence of growth factors in raw milk", Certified Milk, January, 1937.
[3] Nutrition and Human Degeneration, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, La Mesa, California.
[4] Infantile Scurvy. III. Its influence on growth (length and weight), Am. J. Dis. Child., August, 1916.
[5] Harper's Magazine, November/December, 1925 & January 1936, from the Stefansson Collection, Dartmouth College.
[6] Proc. Nat. Nut. Conf. for Defense, May 14, Federal Sea Agency, pp. 176; U.S. Government Pat. Off., 1942.
[7] Newmann, H., Deutsch. Klin., 7:341, 1904
[8] Ibid.
[9] Ibid.
[10] Hess, A. F., "Recent advances in knowledge of scurvy and the antiscorbutic vitamin," J.A.M.A., April 23, 1932.
[11] Annual Convention, Certified Milk Producers Association, Hotel Roosevelt, New York City, February 8, 1938.
[12] The Milk Book; How Science Is Destroying Nature's Nearly Perfect Food, Wm. Campbell Douglass, Jr., MD, 1996, Second Opinion Publishing, Georgia; pp. 204.
[13] Ryan CA, Nickels MK, Hargrett-Bean NT, et al. "Massive outbreak of antimicrobial-resistant salmonellosis traced to pasteurized milk", JAMA 1987;258:3269-74.
[14] "CDC. Outbreaks of Salmonella enteritidis gastroenteritis -- California", 1993. MMWR 1993; 42:793-7.
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An Action of "People Powered by Raw Milk"
If you are a Raw Milk Consumer or Raw Milk Store this is your time to act! Raw Milk needs you now!!
Thousands of emails have been received by OPDC in the last three weeks expressing passionate support and asking the question….
…how can we help protect our raw milk supply?
Three critical objectives have been identified in order to permanently protect raw milk for California's future.
Raw Milk laws must be updated. In order to protect consumers and raw milk producers old Certified Raw Milk laws controlled by physicians ( Food & Ag Code #35921-35928 ) that are already on the books must be updated. California's Raw Milk supply would then be supervised by a board of "doctors, veterinarians and consumers" and not the CDFA. This would permit all raw dairy products to be produced including cultured raw butter, crème cheese, and Raw Milk Kefir….and even fresh cheeses and ice-cream. Currently these laws are not accessible because of certification authorities. An updating change could be very rapid. Currently CDFA and the Grade A standards govern raw milk in California. These standards permit a very narrow range of raw dairy products. The bias shown by CDFA has jeopardized the availability of even these products. This updated Certified Raw Milk law would focus on food safety and not on political obstructions to raw milk. We have commitments from Dr. Paul Fleiss director of the AAMMC (president of the certified raw milk medical commission ) to get this done immediately. This does not require an act of congress but just a change in AAMMC Commission Bylaws.
Legal protection must be provided. In the last few weeks ( and the last several years as well ), OPDC has withstood a massively biased and unfounded attack on its business. Recently, you have felt this personally with the loss of your raw milk supply. During this period, OPDC was falsely accused of making four children ill. NO evidence has been produced (even though OPDC attorneys have requested it ) to show that in fact four children's fecal samples tested positive for the same DNA of Ecoli 0157. Comprehensive testing pointed to other sources for the illnesses. From the CDFA and media reports it would appear that OPDC had critically injured four kids. This is not true at all. Only two children were hospitalized and they have fully recovered. These two children's parents freely admit that other sources of food contamination were probably the source of illness including spinach and sushi. The truth was never told in the media or by CDFA. These government agencies have an agenda that goes far beyond food safety. They hate raw milk and want it gone from California. No one will ever know how close California citizens came to losing raw milk permanently. At one point CDFA threatened to shorten shelf life of raw dairy products to just three days. This single act would have eliminated raw milk in California from any source including Claravale. A media blitz and hundreds of calls from angry consumers to the state threatened a "tell all" media press release by Mark McAfee and OPDC. That threat lifted the siege. The CDFA brand assassins bullet hit very close… Harassment continues even after the recall was lifted. Inspectors arrived at Farmers Markets in LA and attempted to shut down sales of raw milk even though "all legal reinstatement papers" were presented. Directed legal action must start immediately to stop biased harassment and unfounded actions. OPDC lost more than $250,000 over the recall and will not be compensated for its losses. Even though CDFA attorney promised OPDC attorney that if OPDC cooperated, that all products would be back on shelves in five days and costs of the recall would be covered by CDFA. Neither of these promises ever happened. Suits must start immediately to recover losses and stop the harassment.
Freedom to Speak about Freedom to Eat. OPDC was fined $20,000 dollars by the CA Department of Health Services earlier this year because OPDC posted email testimonials received from its consumers about the wonderful life giving and healing properties of raw milk at its website. DHA argued that this is not protected by freedom of speech and that OPDC was making medical claims that had not been approved by the FDA. According to DHS only drugs cure disease. Under current laws consumers can not share their experiences with lactose intolerance or asthma or any other medical condition being resolved by the consumption of raw milk. To make sharing testimonials legal, OPDC has established relationships with other entities that will post consumer testimonials. This raw milk freedom BLOG will allow OPDC consumers to freely post their testimonials. A link to this BLOG will be established at the OPDC website. This is legal and will give raw milk consumers a Freedom to Speak about their Freedom to Eat. This will become a huge educational resource for new raw milk consumers to hear directly from established raw milk drinkers. A data base of all raw milk consumers email addresses will be kept to assure immediate reaction to any challenges should they arise.
We have carefully considered using a non profit organization, foundations, consumer advocacy groups and others to achieve these goals. In the final assessment, it was determined that OPDC should carry this ball directly with its consumers. No other organization would be as passionate, focused or as economically efficient in accomplishing these goals.
The time has come. Consumers need to understand that they must contribute dollars into this effort. If living, whole, bio-diverse, enzyme rich, healing raw milk is going to be continually available for all consumers… all consumers must contribute. This is not an option. OPDC barely survived an attempt on your raw milks life!! We must not sit back and drink our delicious raw milk and enjoy our day! This is just a lull in the raging battle. We must remember the near death experience and act now. The next round could be the last round for California Raw Milk if we do not act immediately.
My grand father once described intelligence as the ability to foresee challenges in the future and doing something about these challenges in the present.
As the old saying goes…if we do not hang together… we will surely hang one by one.
To achieve these objectives OPDC has founded a new department at the dairy called:
People Powered by Raw Milk
PPRM is tasked to accomplish the goals stated above. To fund the activities PPRM will begin selling shirts for $150 dollars each ( or as much as you are able to contribute ). As a contributor you will receive your choice of OPDC shirts with various messages printed on them. We are able to take credit cards, checks and cash for the shirts. Our goal is to establish a People Powered Raw Milk War Chest of $500,000 dollars to immediately accomplish the goals and changes as described.
Your $150 secures the future of Raw Milk
This may seem to be a lot of money… and it is. Think of this as people moving a huge mountain. That is what CDFA and the pasteurized milk lobby is…a huge mountain of money and processed milk power. We can deal with this mountain if we are smart and just find a way around it. We prefer not to fight but rather maneuver. Kind of like energy and motion in Karate. By staying focused and moving quickly we can and will protect raw milk for California. A pathway has already been discovered. We must just find the courage to move right now. This is not cheap. If thousands of raw milk consumers sent in $150 dollars each, the goal would be quickly accomplished. Also, the shirts that would be worn across the state would demonstrate our resolve and further carry the message. $150 dollars is a very small amount to pay for our raw milk security.
You have asked the question and we have developed an answer. It is now up to you to act quickly so you do not suffer repeated interruptions of raw milk availability. A tally of the amount collected will be kept at www.organicpastures.com website. Updates on progress will also be given at the PPRM department at OPDC.
Please contact 1-877 RAW MILK and order your raw milk shirt. Several statements are available in different colors and sizes. Wendy is the manager of PPRM and is awaiting your call. Lets create a raw milk voice for change right now. OPDC can not and should not do this all by its self. After nearly three weeks of shut down OPDC is digging deep just to survive the losses inflicted unjustly by CDFA. PPRM is acting for all of you who enjoy and depend on raw milk. This is something that must come from consumers.
We are very serious and ask that you all take this opportunity to act and protect your raw milk source and choice. These changes and protections will also protect Claravale as well. All raw milk is subject to future biased and unfounded acts by CDFA.
Lets raise some real money and lead the smart fight for raw milk freedom and freedom to eat for ourselves and our families.
1-877 RAW MILK for credit transactions
Or make checks payable to:
OPDC c/o People Powered by Raw Milk
7221 So. Jameson, Fresno CA 93706Shirt selections:
People Powered
by
RAW MILK
( with OPDC brand )Raw Milk Revolutionary
( with OPDC brand)Raw Milk
Freedom Fighter
( with OPDC brand )I Love Raw Milk
Raw Milk Loves Me
( with OPDC brand )Freedom to Eat
RAW MILK
( with OPDC brand )Raw Milk
Human Race
Super Fuel
Shirts will be sent out within four weeks of ordering via post office.
The OPDC dairy team is proud to lead this challenge with you…
…the ever wonderful raw milk consumer.
posted by Chris Gupta on Monday October 23 2006
URL of this article:
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