Raw Milk Moms to Stage Protest at FDA Headquarters

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Milk and Cookies for the Grinch

by Kimberly Hartke

We are not yet to the holiday season, and already, raw milk consumers are getting cold shivers from the FDA’s bad attitude toward their food of choice. Like the mean Grinch, FDA has entered Who’s Whoville and wants to steal food and freedom along with it. Described as a grumpy hermit in his character bio, the Grinch, plots and schemes to get his way, not unlike the FDA.

Well, raw milk momma’s have decided to turn the other cheek, so to speak. Instead of giving milk and cookies to Santa, they are taking them to the Grinch to spite his raw milk pinch.

Ok, that is the adult daily limit of Dr. Seuss rhymes!

The Raw Milk Freedom Riders is a sprightly band of young mothers and their friends who decided to flex their freedom muscle and serve a raw milk and cookies protest across from the FDA headquarters. The event is proceeded by a trip to the state of Pennsylvania, which has legal raw milk sales, and bringing the white stuff across the border into Maryland, which doesn’t.

That trip across the border is what turns fluid raw milk into contraband.

Currently, both a federal lawsuit by Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and  bill HR 1830 introduced by Ron Paul in Congress (R, TX) and co-sponsored by Chellie Pingree (D, ME) seek to end the ban on interstate transportation of raw milk.

The Raw Milk Freedom Riders hope to hasten its demise by raising awareness of the hardship posed by a law which criminalizes natural consumer behavior.

To learn more, visit the Raw Milk Freedom Riders website. See this article on Natural News for a partial list of speakers at the event.

If you are on Facebook, here is the event listing, please share it with your friends.

Kimberly Hartke is the publicist for The Campaign for Real Milk, a project of The Weston A. Price Foundation, a nutrition education non-profit.

This post is part of the Fight Back Friday blog carnival on Food Renegade.