Vernon Hershberger’s Privacy Rights and Right to Contract Under Seige
Brendan Connelly is a successful businessman in Wisconsin, who is greatly troubled by his states persecution of the dairy farm where he procures raw milk by being a “partner” with the farmer. He visited Washington, D.C. this Spring and spoke to our local Whole Foods Nutrition meetup group.
In this 27 minute video, he explains what it is like to have the government trying to criminalize a decent family man for helping other families obtain the nutrient dense super food, farm fresh milk.
Connelly recently launched a Wisconsin based non-profit in defense of food liberty. Check out his website at www.ap76.org and his facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/ap76wi/info
Kimberly Hartke is the publicist for The Campaign for Real Milk, a project of nutrition education non-profit, The Weston A. Price Foundation.
Love your blog, by the way. What a great, centralized resource for all real food and local farm info.
Great speech. Hear is something I posted on the complete patient: David Gumpert didn’t seem to get it back then, when he said raw milk was fragile. Fresh milk is the least fragile and the most difficult to contaminate of all the fresh foods and the so called contaminates themselves are less dangerous than most of the food and drugs that Americans consume on a regular bases.
Yes, DATCP represents the dairy processing industry but they do not work for them they work for us. In America the law is written by the people not by DATCP. The safety of raw milk is irrelevant. Bringing up the constitution is really not necessary and only serves to further sidetrack the main issue. We don’t make things illegal because they’re dangerous and it is not DATCP’s job to tell us what to eat. If the people want raw milk, it’s DATCP’s job to make sure they get it and there’s no law preventing them from doing that. I got this idea from DATCP’s home page under history of DATCP.
As a matter of fact DATCP is actually breaking the law when they interfere with direct farm sales. They also break the law when they interfere with private food contracts. Our regulations were never intended to limit food choice.
The court should keep in mind that DATCP is not representing the people of Wisconsin in the Hershberger case, Vernon is. By law DATCP is an industry representative. Vernon’s food club members are the only ones with relevant testimony. Everyone else has a conflict of interest. If the food club has no complaint DATCP has no case.
Now if you want to talk about safety later, fine, but then that opens the door to all the issues involved here. The first being conflict of interest, then anti trust, and libel. The safety issue is really very simple as long as you stick to the facts.
We are talking about diarrhea. Diarrhea is the most common illness in the world and is not dangerous in and of itself. Diarrhea is only dangerous if it is treated by a medical doctor or if the person is deprived of food and water. Raw milk is the healthiest and safest America food and DATCP’s data does not show otherwise.
If at some point a consumer decides he wants raw milk at his local supermarket than it will be DATCP’s responsibility to see that it is there next week. If we can find a way to safely sell knives and forks and battery acid we can certainly find a way to sell fresh milk whether it is safe to drink or not.
DATCP could have prevented this problem at any point by simply using some common sense.
The court should take the Hershberger case more seriously. This is not a speeding ticket. DATCP stands accused of mass murder and I think we all know they’re guilty. I’m not sure if they’re even denying it.