Raw (Undamaged) Milk & Fluoride Notices - See Index - 2011-10-30
Index:
Raw (Undamaged) Milk:
1) Starving Farmer's Strength Fades As He Awaits Meeting With Premiere
2) USA Moms are Demanding Raw Milk Access of FDA
Fluoride:
3) Lakeshore, Ontario, Canada Stops Fluoridation
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1) Starving Farmer's Strength Fades As He Awaits Meeting With Premiere
Please write, fax, snail mail, and telephone again to the contacts
below. Send follow up letters and/or fax, phone and keep demanding a response.
Remember a squeaky wheel gets attention. Continue to be persistent!
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:49:29 -0400
From: Kimberly Hartke <kimberly@hartke.comcastbiz.net>
Supporters of Michael Schmidt, the beleaguered dairy farmer are in disbelief
that Dalton McGuinty entered another weekend without a response to the many
pleas for a meeting to take place. Could it be that not enough attention is
being brought to the issue by the media? Please consider covering this story.
Here, in Michael's own words is where things stand, now.--Kimberly Hartke
Michael interviews Michael
M:
Let me begin with the question everybody is asking and wanting to know; How are
you?
Michael:
I am surprised how long a body can go without physical nourishment.
I am surprised that I am still able to do certain things at the farm. At the
same time I begin to realize that I have reached my limit. My body is not coping
anymore.
M.
Are you seeing a doctor?
Michael:
Yes I do, I am in fact with two doctors who are very concerned and trying to
help at least with monitoring the situation.
The biggest concern is, that apparently I had a mild heart attack sometime in
the last 6 months and that does not help in my current condition.
M.
Are you worried?
Michael:
I said it before: I am not worried about me, I am worried about my family and
the farm in case we cannot get this current stalemate resolved.
M.
Let me ask you straight forward; why are you so determined to continue your
hunger strike considering the risk that Dalton McGuinty might ignore your
request.
Michael:
One needs to understand that I did not enter this hunger strike to wiggle out
when things do not go my way.
I made a very conscious decision. The request to meet the Premier in order to
start a dialogue at the top, is not too much to ask.
17 years of trying to enter into a serious dialogue with all parties concerned
has resulted in nothing.
Instead we had repeated raids, many many charges and court proceedings, as we
speak they continue to this day to accumulate, and the Government keeps issuing
press statements how dangerous and fatal the consumption of raw milk is.
This is a stand off which is very serious and will have tremendous consequences
across North America if the Premier ignores this simple request.
This is not a political power play , or a publicity stunt.
This is about our small farmers, about people who need healthy food, and parents
who care about their children.
M:
Why do you say North America?
Michael?
Freedom of Choice as it relates to food is becoming a major issue across this
Continent. What happens in Canada happens also in the United States. During my
travels, in the last 5 years I have seen devastated families, crying mothers,
helpless farmers and ruined farms as a result of these violent attacks. This is
as urgent south of the border as it is here.
I do not think that the majority of people and politicians have yet grasped the
enormity of this situation.
Farmers are slaves once again, full of fear and have no means to defend
themselves if Government decides to take them down only because they do not
conform.
It is heartbreaking to say the least.
M:
Are we looking here at another 1% reality?
Michael:
Indeed we do. If you consider that not even 100 years ago 70% percent of the
population was actively involved in farming. Today it is less than 2 percent
with no vision or option left.
Those who look at new models like cow sharing are raided, prosecuted, threatened
and bankrupted.
All they try to do is, to provide food people want to eat.
M.
You are leaving on Monday to go to Washington and then to Vancouver? Are you
able to endure this stress under you current condition?
Michael:
I made a commitment to my friends which I hopefully can keep.
They asked me to speak at a major raw milk rally at the FDA headquarter close to
Washington.
Mothers with children will cross state lines with raw milk which is illegal in
order to expose these draconian anti raw milk laws.
The FDA has been more and more in the forefront to take down non conforming
farmers.
With Vancouver I had no choice, because of the contempt of court charges
regarding my involvement in the cow share operation in Chilliwack BC.
As well there will be a major raw milk rally on November 2.
How will I manage this? I wonder myself, will see. Sometimes there are other
forces at work supporting your body.
M.
Your situation has effected a lot of people.
You helped other farmers to start very successful cow share operations in
Ontario, you had at least four cow share colleges and the demand for raw milk
keeps increasing. Are you a danger to the dairy industry?
Michael?
Let me make a very important point right now.
I had no intend in 1994 when we got raided the first time, to work outside the
current system of supply management. I met with the Milk Marketing Board, I
proposed to the different Ministers in charge to adopt the British model of a
dual quota system where farmers and consumers have a choice to either produce or
consume raw milk or pasteurized milk.
My opinion has since then changed drastically; supply management was good and
may be necessary but has in it's current form outlived it's purpose.
It has become almost an elite club which turns farmers against farmers.
Yes they are very afraid of that their industry is on the way out as result of
my continued stand on food freedom.
It is sad how much misinformation about my intentions is spread and I have to
say that they act too often in a very underhanded way to protect their turf.
In reality we are no danger to them at all.
Those who seek raw milk have given up drinking pasteurized milk long ago. They
are part of the yearly loss in milk consumption as reported by many industry
statistics.
The dairy industry is it's own enemy and in fact helps building the raw milk
demand.
I wonder if they are afraid that people might find out the truth about
conventionally produced and processed dairy products.
M.
Let's get back to the core question.
What will make you stop your hunger strike?
Michael:
As I said the window of opportunity is closing more and more, but the chance for
true miracles is there when you are open for it.
I have to meet with Dalton McGuinty to start the dialogue in order to stop my
hunger strike.
The are four scenarios as I see them at this moment;
1. Dalton McGuinty forgets his political chess game and agrees to a face to face
meeting.
I will gladly walk into his office for a meeting on a very personal level with
an attempt to listen and understand each other. I am calling this "breaking down
unnecessary barriers" for a better understanding.
2. Dalton McGuinty keeps listening to his advisers and waits until finally after
weeks and weeks of increasing public pressure he agrees. I will be likely by
then in a wheel chair because of the lengthy hunger strike. Not too late.
3. Dalton McGuinty will not act until he finally begins to understand that I am
serious. He will then have to come to the farm to meet because I am to weak to
travel.
4. Dalton McGuinty will choose death instead of dialogue.
M.
Are you hopeful?
Michael:
I am always hopeful, because I have great trust that the humanity in every
person will reveal itself when challenged with grace, respect and love. McGuinty
has a huge responsibility leading the Province of Ontario, but he also is a
caring human being.
I know that, because I met him before he became Premier and he told me so.
M.
Stay strong
Michael:
I will, knowing that thousands of people watching ,caring, worrying and praying
for a good outcome. I always believe in the ultimate goodness of every person.
Michael Schmidt
#393889 Conc. 3 EGR R.R.#1
Durham Ontario Canada N0G 1R0
Michael can be reached c/o Beverley Viljakainen
519-369-6782 or 519-375-7432
For other sources on raw milk issue
contact: Kimberly Hartke, Publicist
The Campaign for Real Milk
a project of the Weston A. Price Foundation
CANADIAN CONTACTS:
Dalton McGuinty, Premier
Legislative Building
Queen's Park
Toronto ON M7A 1A1
1-800-387-5559
https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/en/feedback/feedback.aspx
Fax: 416-325-3745
Tim Hudak- Leader of the Opposition
4961 King St. E Unit M1
Beamsville, ON L0R 1B0
timhudak@niagara.net
905-563-1755 (or toll free at 1-800-665-3697).
Deb Matthews-Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
242 Piccadilly Street
London, ON N6A 1S4
dmatthews.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
519-432-7339 Fax: 519-432-0613
Andrea Horwath - Leader of the New Democratic Party-
Hamilton Centre
Constituency
Suite 200
20 Hughson Street South
Hamilton, Ontario L8N 2A1
ahorwath-co@ndp.on.ca
905-544-9644 Fax: 905-544-5152
Randy Hillier
Lanark--Frontenac--Lennox and Addington
Constituency
Unit 1
105 Dufferin Street
Perth, Ontario K7H 3A5
randy.hillierco@pc.ola.org
613-267-8239 Fax: 613-267-7398
Jack MacLaren
2 Beaverbrook Mall Unit 102,
Kanata, ON K2K 1L2
jack@jackmaclaren.com
877-780-5225
Greg Sorbara
Liberal MPP in Ontario
Constituency Office
140 Woodbridge Avenue, Unit AU8 - Market Lane
Woodbridge, ON L4L 4K9
905-851-0440 Fax: 905-851-0210
gsorbara.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
Queen's Park Office
Room 186, Main Legislative Building
Toronto, ON M7A 1A4
416-212-1022 Fax: 416-212-1025
Larry Miller
Federal Conservative MP for Grey
Chair of Standing Committee on Agriculture in Ottawa
1131 2nd Avenue East, Suite 208
Owen Sound, ON N4K 2J1
519-371-1059 Fax: 519-371-1752
millela1@parl.gc.ca
or
Room 510, Justice Building
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
613-996-5191 Fax: 613-952-0979
ottawa@larrymiller.ca
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2) USA Moms are Demanding Raw Milk Access of FDA
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:06:02 -0400
From: Kimberly Hartke <kimberly@hartke.comcastbiz.net>
The U.S. FDA and Health Canada have been working in concert on their anti-raw
milk activities. Just so you know, folks aren't happy about it. Here is a
peaceful civil disobedience protest being staged by moms at the FDA
HQ.--Kimberly Hartke, Publicist
Press Release--October 27, 2011
Contact: Liz Reitzig, Co-founder, Farm Food Freedom Coalition
301-807-5063, lizreitzig@gmail.com
www.RawMilkFreedomRiders.com
Washington DC - The beloved American tradition of milk and cookies is a
crime for some mothers, according to the Farm Food Freedom Coalition, organizers
of a planned civil disobedience on November 1. A US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) regulation makes the transport of raw milk intended for human consumption
across state lines illegal, even for individuals purchasing it legally in one
state and carrying it into the states where they live.
On Tuesday, November 1, 2011, a group of moms will challenge the FDA�s ban on
interstate transport of raw milk by picking up fresh milk in Pennsylvania,
transporting it to Maryland, then distributing it, along with cookies, in front
of FDA headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland at a rally from 12:00 -3:00pm.
After numerous armed federal assaults and undercover investigations on farmers,
coops and buying groups that supply their raw milk, mothers across the country
are disgusted with the FDA�s aggression and ready to take action to protect
their families� food.
�By criminalizing me for the food choices I make for my family, the FDA is
effectively saying that I have no right to feed my family what I, as the parent,
know is best for them,� says Suzy Provine, one of the �raw milk freedom riders�
who chooses fresh milk for her family. �It is one thing to inform me about my
choices, but the FDA goes too far by forcing what they think is best on my
family.�
The FDA is disrupting thousands of families' food supplies by pressuring states
to restrict access to raw dairy. States like Wisconsin and California are
shutting down family farms by threatening penalties and jail for farmers.
View
www.naturalnews.com/033280_FDA_raids_timeline.html for a timeline of FDA�s
raids on raw milk farmers. Visit
www.FarmFoodFreedomCoalition.com for information about the organizers. For
more information on raw milk, go to
www.westonaprice.org
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3) Lakeshore, Ontario, Canada Stops Fluoridation
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:40:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: NYSCOF@aol.com
Lakeshore, Ontario, Canada
2011-10-29 09:17:24
Lakeshore residents no longer have fluoride in their water. Fluroide was
originally added to water to help fight tooth decay. Mayor Tom Bain says with
today's health programs and the amount of fluoride that's in toothpaste, it's
not necessary to put fluoride in the water.
http://www.am800cklw.com/headlines.php
This is the resolution
Council authorizes Administration to bring to council a by-law which would
discontinue the practice of fluoridation of the Stoney Point Water Treatment
Plant
http://weblink.lakeshore.ca/WebLink8/DocView.aspx?id=122670&page=199&searchid=7cf363db-2fe7-4b4b-98ec-13bdbd0149a9
The resolution doesn't show it was passed
(at least I couldn't find it) but a Facebook posting
below lead med to ask the Facebooker for an official announcement. The person
gave me the link to the media report above
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