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> Sent: March-27-10 6:56 AM
> To: Ralston.MLA, Bruce
> Subject: Raw Milk and real food
>
> Hello Bruce
>
> I am a shareholder in Home on the Range Dairy and one of your constituents.
>
>
> I grew up on a farm drinking raw milk. At the age of 50 I started seriously
> looking at my health and how to improve it. I found the Weston A. Price
> Foundation and that started me on the path to healing with WHOLE foods. I
> never thought I could get raw milk again and finding Home on the Range was a
> God send. Since drinking their milk my health has grown considerably.
>
> In my search for things that nourish me, I have learned that some things are
> not as they seem. I sincerely believe that there is a strong movement
> starting AWAY from industrialized farming and back to more naturally raised
> food.
>
> But to you, that is neither here nor there. The question is the LAW and the
> role of government in our lives. I don’t need government telling me what is
> unsafe to put in my stomach. You won’t try to stop me from smoking,
> drinking.. Eating at McDonalds.. Why are you standing in the way of me
> receiving my property. I own part shares in these cows and am therefore
> allowed the fruit of said cows. You are trying to legislate too many
> aspects of our lives and are legislating away our freedom. In this time of
> budget constraints, I’m sure you can find a better place to spend our money
> and your time than hassling a small dairy that is bucking the trend.
>
> Thank you for your time.
> --
> Mary-Anne
> Student of Life
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> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: "Dix.MLA, Adrian"
> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:32:00 -0700
> To: "'mwisejsj@gmail.com'"
> Cc: "Ralston.MLA, Bruce" , "Popham.MLA, Lana"
>
> Conversation: Raw Milk / Fraser Health Authority
> Subject: Raw Milk / Fraser Health Authority
>
>
> Dear sharemember in Home on the Range
>
> Your e-mail regarding raw milk was forwarded to me by my colleague Bruce
> Ralston. I am pleased to have the opportunity to respond.
>
> I appreciate your point of view about the benefits of raw milk and your
> passion for naturally raised foods. I am supportive of natural foods, but
> within the bounds of health safety. In the case of Home on the Range Dairy,
> I must respect the Fraser Healthy Authority’s decision to request an
> injunction against their product, and the BC Supreme Court’s decision to
> uphold the injunction.
>
> I trust the Fraser Health Authority’s expertise and judgement on the issue
> of food safety. It is the responsibility of the Fraser Health Authority to
> act under the Public Health Act when they feel there may be a health risk to
> the public.
>
> At this time the NDP has no intentions of changing the BC Milk Industry Act
> or Health Act in regards to the consumption or sale of raw milk, as we feel
> it is doing an adequate job of protecting the health of British Columbians
> in this regard. Thank you again for taking the time to write about your
> concerns; I have copied Lana Popham, Opposition Agriculture Critic for her
> information.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Adrian Dix, MLA
> Vancouver-Kingsway
> Opposition Health Critic
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2)
> From: Ryan Conroy
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 3:55 PM
> To: Adrian Dix.MLA
> Subject: Raw milk
>
>
> Hi Adrian:
>
> I recently was copied an email from one of my fellow share members in
> Home on the Range. I will preface this by saying that I like you as a
> person Adrian, so do not take this personally - but I cannot help but
> be outraged by your reply and I hope that Mary-Ann was as well. The
> arrogant and condescending tone of your reply (masked by a misleading
> statement of support for an agency of the government which has been
> malicious and deceitful towards all members of Home on the Range) made
> my blood boil.
>
> I must say that as a member of the government who crafted the current
> version of the BC Milk Industry Act, I am not suprised.
>
> Comments from people like Chief Provincial Health Officer Perry
> Kendall, Ida Chong of the BC Liberals and yourself are the most
> troubling part of this all, for it seems the people who having been
> running the province for who knows how many years are either utterly
> clueless, or embroiled in deep-seeded and disgusting sedition to
> deprive hard working British Columbians of their choice to drink milk
> of the highest quality available in its purest form on behalf of
> nefarious corporate interests.
>
> The fact of the matter is that raw milk can be provided safely, and
> Home on the Range has been providing it safely. The lab test is a red
> herring - ironically enough Fraser Health Health actually broke the
> regulations regarding transporting milk, delivering the milk to the lab
> at a temperature below provincial standards for storage as legislated
> in by the BC Milk Industry Act they are purporting to uphold! The milk
> they stole from us and then publicly slandered with cries of
> contaminated with feces had fecal coliform limits within the standards
> for conventional milk even after they handled it with their bumbling
> incompetent paws! Something you should know is that all milk contains
> coliforms. It contained coliforms but not excessive coliforms.
>
> So I hope your support is blind support and ignorance rather than
> actually knowing what is going on here. In States in the US where raw
> milk is completely legal, the milk is shipped overnight, tested the
> next day, and stored at an appropriate and legal temperature until the
> tests are done. The fact is having legal sales of raw milk makes it
> easier to monitor diaries through inspectors and a permit system.
>
> Was it buffoonery or treacherousness here? I'm not sure but they
> should be the ones with an order slapped on them under the Act,
> prohibiting them from transport or storage of milk. Next time tell
> someone should should tell Falcon to tell Kendall to tell Fraser Health
> to have somebody who actually knows what they're doing from the lab
> pick it up so they don't look like such clowns.
>
> Aside from their demonstrated incompetence, they issued a recall
> warning to members approximately three weeks after confiscating those
> samples, when we receive weekly allotments. This demonstrates that it
> is all nothing more than a charade which has been going on for a long
> time. Any milk from that time had obviously been consumed, raw milk
> does not last as long as the pasteurised homogenised pus and feces
> filled milk from animals who need antibiotics to keep them alive
> because of the infections caused by the grain which is dissolving their
> stomach linings and growth hormones to produce more of that lovely
> stuff. But don't worry - zap it and shred it at the molecular level
> and its all good even if there is little to no nutrition and it tasted
> terrible, at least it tastes terrible for a long time.
>
> If you were really concerned about bacteria, you would ban containment
> farming and the toxic slurry which is causing people to get salmonella
> and e-coli from everything from strawberries to organic spinach from
> the factories where they make the garbage milk you are promoting. That
> is what is not natural. Our cows live a healthy happy life grazing on
> pasture and reward us with delicious healthy milk in return, and their
> manure is stamped into the pasture rather than collecting on the floor
> in a toxic slurry.
>
> But then again it is obvious the NDP and the LIberals are not concerned
> about what is natural, or what is right. You are doing the bidding of
> the big corporations who are poisoning children with fructose - giving
> seven and eight year old children scirosis of the liver comparable to
> fifty year old alcoholics. Then they feed what is left of the corn to
> the cows to make them fat even though it makes them sick. There is no
> logic in what you are supporting. Ironically the reason for this
> injunction was a supposed sick child who never materialised even when
> the Crown was presenting evidence.
>
> There is only one right in this situation and it is us. And we are not
> trying to impose our will upon anyone. We purchased shares in cows so
> that we own the animal we are getting the milk from. We pay Alice to
> take care of the animals because we know her and trust her. We are
> operating outside of the BC Milk Act, and we are not buying nor selling
> milk but paying to produce it for ourselves. So regardless of whether
> the NDP or Liberals are willing to allow legal milk sales in BC, LEAVE
> US ALONE OR WE WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ALONE!!!
>
> Furthermore, both Royal Commissions on Milk in 1954 and 1995 suggested
> it would be a violation of the rights of people who chose to seek out
> raw milk to not allow some forum for them to purchase it.
> Approximately 70% of milk consumed worldwide is consumed raw, and it is
> legal at least partially in every other G8 country. The government
> does not have a right to tell us as members of a dairy herd share
> cooperative, farmers wishing to produce raw milk, and people wishing to
> purchase it.
>
> You can walk into a restaurant and order raw shellfish, which might
> actually kill you. On the other hand most incedences of
> bacteriological contamination blamed on raw milk are due to either
> false blame being assigned due to bias against raw milk or a
> contaminated farm producing raw milk. Pasteurised milk has caused
> hundreds of thousands of cases of food born illness since it was
> implemented. Raw milk is known to contain an enzyme amongst its riches
> of nutrients which protects against bad bacteria, which is destroyed by
> pasteurisation. But I do not have to convince you what is right. I am
> not trying to ban pasteurised homogenised milk. I am saying that I
> choose to drink raw milk from Home on the Range, even if it is not
> intended for human consumption, and that is my choice - and I believe I
> have a right to that choice.
>
> If my words sounded harsh, they are actually quite measured in
> comparison to the words Perry Kendall and Fraser Health have lobbed
> against our dairy, and you so nonchalantly threw at us again. It is a
> cooperative, your attacks are not on "them" but on "us". You of all
> people should know that you deal with enough cooperatives. Our milk is
> not a biohazard, as you claim. Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures in
> California has advised Alice on the safest ways to milk, and thanks to
> modern technology and people who actually care about what they are
> doing Organic Pastures is the largest producer of raw milk in the US
> and does not have problems. By calling our milk a health hazard you
> are insulting all the hard work that they put into caring for our cows
> which we appreciate.
>
> I hope your ignorance is not willful ignorance.
>
> But should I be suprised when the NDP is happy to change key platform
> initiatives from supporting carbon taxes to axe the tax, overruling the
> democratic wishes of their own membership. Then they have to vote to
> change it back after you already whatever policy you want against their
> wishes in an election.
>
> Like I said Adrian I think you seem like a good guy, but you have
> obviously been at the core of some pretty greasy stuff that is, quite
> frankly, starting to hit a little bit too close to home.
>
> I doubt you either of you have the cajones - but I challenge yourself
> and Kevin Falcon to a debate on this subject. I believe the people of
> BC are owed both sides of the story on this issue and they have not
> been adequately given either of them. The Liberals and NDP really are
> a two-headed snake, it seems.
>
> Ryan Conroy,
> Vancouver-Kingsway Constituent
> Director-at-Large, Green Party of BC
> Home on the Range Dairy Herd Share Member