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California Mom Speaks Out in Defense of Raw Milk

Christine and her children at Stueve's Farm, the "original" raw milk dairy in CA - Alta Dena

Today is the third in a powerful series of videos showing activists moms working to protect the food that their children eat. We end on a positive note, and on a mom defending a healthy food that our government frowns on–raw milk.

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Vermonters Protest Government Ban of Butter Making Classes

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Butter making classes banned by state edict? How much food freedom is left if this can happen in America? One citizen group in Vermont did a colorful protest and got loads of good attention for the issue.

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Grassfed Raw Milk Sales Double after BBC Milk Show

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Phil Ridley reviews a recent radio show on BBC, What is Milk? In the show raw milk gets fair treatment, and sales of one raw milk farm doubled after the show aired.

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A Heartfelt Wish…for No GMOs

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Leslie Goldman, the local foods poet laureate, offers an inspirational Valentine’s wish, for a greener, cleaner world!

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Monsanto’s Creeping Contamination Strategy

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Now that our government has caved to pressure to deregulate GMO alfalfa, citizen education and action is the only way to save organic food and farming. I am looking for leaders who want to address this challenge.

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Madness and Violent Behavior: The Food Connection

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The Arizona mass shooting is yet another gut wrenching tragedy to occur on American soil. When are we going to dig deeper and find the root causes of such widespread mental illness in our land?

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Sustainable Farming Advocate Fired by USDA National Organic Program

Mark-Keating

At a time when the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) is channeling money to outside contractors with no experience in organic agriculture to write production standards, why would it invent reasons to fire the most experienced regulatory rule writer on its staff?

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S 510 Opponent Wins Activist Award at Sustainable Agriculture Conference

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Sustainable agriculturalists recognize the valiant effort of one farmer citizen to derail the food safety “modernization” act, which is such a threat to mixed use and small farms.

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How the FDA Can Use S 510 to Close Down Raw Milk Dairies

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What’s at stake for raw milk in the FDA S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act? How about everything…

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Woman Poisoned by Pesticides Speaks Out on S510

Ho'okipa Lookout means Hospitality. Corporations have Overstayed their Welcome in Hawaii.

Kimberly Usher knows first-hand the dangers of pesticides in foods, she lives in Hawaii, where corporate farms have poisoned the environment with heavy spraying. Kimberly is now crippled due to exposure to these dangerous chemicals.

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