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Raw Milk in the News

January 26, 2012

• Raw Milk Rally and Court Hearing for Wisconsin Dairy Farmer Vernon Hershberger Friday, January 27 at 12:00 pm in Baraboo: Vernon Hershberger has a court appearance scheduled tomorrow, Friday, January 27, 2012 at 1:00 pm at the Baraboo Courthouse, which is located on 515 Oak Street in Baraboo. Vernon is facing criminal charges for allegedly violating state food and dairy laws, including several counts for not having the proper permits. He has contended that he was not required to have the licenses because his store was a members-only club, in which people leased farm animals and were provided dairy products from those animals. Wisconsin farmers and Hershberger’s farm club members have scheduled a Rally at 12:00 pm in front of the Baraboo Courthouse preceding the 1:00 pm court appearance. The Jefferson/Waukesha chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation recently published a related commentary on the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection’s (DATCP’s) “war on raw milk.”
• “Local Food Movement Gets Verbal Support from El Dorado County Officials” (Sacramento Bee, 1/25): “The grass-roots (and grass-fed) agriculture revolution that Patty Chelseth,” whom the Food Rights Network interviewed last month, “started last summer is picking up steam. Chelseth, of My Sisters’ Farm in Shingle Springs, has launched a campaign to get a ‘Local Food and Community Self-Governance’ ordinance. Her effort got a warm reception Tuesday from the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors.”
• New Hampshire Considers Exemption for Small Raw Milk Dairies (Concord Monitor, 1/25)
• “Food Pathogen Mystery in MA: How Did Dairy Farmer Robert Kilmer Contract Brucellosis?”: For more on the law firm MarlerClark‘s and most media‘s attempt to spin this as a story about raw milk, see David Gumpert‘s blog, “The Complete Patient” (1/22).
• “The Heated Battle For, and Against, Unpasteurized Milk” (Seattle Times, 1/20)
• “Beware of That Cow: She’s a Potential Felon” (Central Jersey, 1/20)
• “New California Public Health Report Further Links Illnesses to Organic Pastures Dairy Company; McAfee Argues Fermenting May Have Exacerbated Tainting” (The Complete Patient blog, 1/19)
• “Raw Milk Bill on Docket Again in New Jersey” (World Dairy Diary, 1/18)

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Tags: brucellosis, California, El Dorado County, localfoodordinance, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, newjersey, organicpastures, rawmilk, rawmilkfelon, vernonherscherbger, Wisconsin