Today we are launching a Letters to Michael campaign, starting with a British Royal who writes this letter of support to Michael Schmidt. Schmidt is a Canadian farmer on a hunger strike to draw attention to the unfair prosecution of his cow boarding program.
Sheep and Goats will join shepherds and goat herdsman at a protest rally for food rights in Santa Cruz, California next week.
While politicians are stressing jobs in their stump speeches, government agencies are putting people out of work if they seek to meet consumer demand for raw dairy. The irony is, the best hope for economic stimulus will come from local small enterprises.
Professor sets out to school her students and elected officials on the meaning of liberty, free enterprise and private contracts, specifically, herd share agreements.
“This can not stand” says outraged Dad, Martin Matthews, whose baby is being denied milk from the family’s goat by the state agricultural officials.
California dairy farmer Mark McAfee is a pioneer. He advocates for raw dairy at every opportunity. Here is an example of how he recently came to the aid of threatened cow and goat share programs in his state.
Brigitte Ruthman is a part-time farmer with a full time love of cows. She tells a beautiful story of a holstein rescue calf, who now thrives in a small herd of milking shorthorns.
America’s tiniest dairy farm needs support from the Massachusetts state legislature to survive. Grassroots help is needed to get her state representatives to act.
Dr. Ted Beals and the Michigan Raw Milk Workgroup have compiled a historical overview of raw milk and pastuerization laws, it is now available on the internet.
The protracted effort to secure raw milk access has taken its toll on many farmers. Michael Schmidt with the help of his cow boarding partners, may have changed all that.
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