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Know Your Raw Milk History, Advises Dr. Ted Beals

Untold-Story-of-Milk

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.

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Tim Wightman Cow Boarding Pioneer Reacts to Schmidt Verdict

Clearview Acres Farm

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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Key Witness in the Michael Schmidt Trial Shares his Thoughts

Ron Hull, Ted Beals, Witnesses for the Defense

Ted Beals, M.D., expert witness for the defense of Michael Schmidt, a dairyman facing criminal charges for his raw milk enterprise, shares his thoughts about the case.

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Cow Boarding–A CSA for Dairy Farmers

Michael Schmidt and His Supporters in Cow Masks

Kimberly Hartke argues that Michael Schmidt is an artisan dairy farmer providing a quality product to his patrons of his art, heritage raw milk in this editorial.

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Nourishing Foods Blog Carnival

Food is the Best Medicine!

On my library shelf, is a wonderful little book by Dr. Henry Bieler, M.D., Food is Your Best Medicine. Written in 1965, before Big Pharma had such a stranglehold on the business of healing, this doctor details case after case of how nurturing food played a role in healing his patients.When my brother was very young, he was diagnosed by our pediatrician, Dr. Knop, as celiac. She was an old school German doctor, and worked in the prestigious Yater Clinic in downtown Washington, D.C. She looked like a fierce school marm, with her dark hair pulled back in a tight bun. In her clipped German accent, she prescribed a strict diet for my brother of nothing but cottage cheese…

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A Splattering of Digital Ink

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I am so excited! An opinion editorial I wrote about Weston A. Price and his influence on contemporary raw milk movement was published Friday on the Canadian Blog, The Bovine! This is a fantastic blog…

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Today is the Michael Schmidt Trial

Today, Michael Schmidt, a raw dairy farmer in Ontario will be hauled into court. He is being charged with 20 criminal counts, simply for trying to pursue his passion…

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Dear Canada: Michael Schmidt is Not a Criminal

Yesterday, Michael Schmidt, an Ontario dairy farmer was fined
$55,000. for contempt of court. He has refused to stop servicing his
cow boarding clients…

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