Dear Minister Michael de Jong. (c) - канацкому министру здравоохранения

http://babusyatanya.blogspot.com/2011/10/dear-minister-michael-de-jong-c.html

Dear Minister Michael de Jong.

I’m writing to you to ask a simple question. What’s more dangerous
for your health? Smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol or drinking
unpasteurized milk?

According to Health Canada, it’s drinking unpasteurized milk.

Canada is the only G8 country where the sale of raw milk is illegal. The
country outlawed its sale in 1991. However, drinking raw milk is legal.
I believe in food freedom and I believe the provincial government
should too. Clearly raw milk is not a health issue as thousands of
people drink it with great benefits, including myself. More people will
die from interactions with prescription drugs this year in North America
than all the cases of raw milk drinkers getting sick in the world in the
last two decades!

I guess what I am looking for is a honest answer why to why the
provincial government is not doing more to ensure the rights of British
Columbians to choose to eat whole unprocessed foods, directly
from the farmer, if they so choose? When tainted spinach is sold and
people get E-coli poisoning or tainted deli meat is recalled, why don't
you make spinach or deli meat illegal to sell?

It's very disappointing to see your government not making this basic
freedom more important when I believe we have much bigger issues
to allocate resources to than punishing a small raw dairy. It seems
every day average Canadians are assaulted by their own government
under the guise of looking out for our welfare. Whether it’s raw milk
or natural supplements coming under attack, we seem to be losing the
choice to be responsible for our own health.

We are an overmedicated culture living on too many processed foods,
and we don’t have to look very far to see that health care requires a
new paradigm to become effective. If I wish to purchase whole healthy
raw milk direct from a farmer, is that not my constitutional right? In
fact why don’t we make raw milk dairy's legal so they can be properly
regulated. Does the little guy not get help from the government, or is
it only the powerful that get the ear of the policy makers?

I can assure you I take my health very seriously, because I don’t want
to get ill or be a burden to the system, and raw dairy is a large part of
my health protocol.

There is a growing desire and movement for fresh whole unprocessed

foods, that are not boiled irradiated and processed in factories, where
animals are treated humanely, the way nature intended.

Food freedom is becoming more important to ordinary Canadians
each and every day and this is not an issue that is going away, so I’m
asking for your support to bring some common sense back into the
equation. I stand for local sustainable unprocessed whole foods and
the freedom to purchase and eat them.

I hope you will take a leading role to make your government more
progressive by making food freedom a top priority.

I feel strongly about this issue, as do many of the folks I’m talking to,
so this is a major election issue for me.

I appreciate the opportunity to express my thoughts on this subject.

Kind thanks

David Frank Gomes

+ many more people standing for their rights

18 день голодовки - Michael Shmidt on hunger strike

http://babusyatanya.blogspot.com/2011/10/18-michael-shmidt-on-hunger-strike.html


(c) "Henry Kissinger said, "If we can control fuel we can control the masses; if we can control food we can control individuals."

Well, you only need to look at gas prices to see the first part of that is in place. But now they are working on the second part.

Under the Food Safety Modernization Act, the US FDA can now come in and, without a search warrant nor court order, seize your computers and bank accounts (as well as your food) if you are merely SUSPECTED of using "unapproved farming methods" or "unapproved seed sources," among other things.

The US FDA is flexing its muscles, spending an entire year infiltrating (for example) the raw dairy herd share of Amish farmer Dan Algyer, and arresting him for "conspiring to transport raw milk across state borders."

A food buying co-op in California, Rawsome Foods, was recently shut down by an armed swat team of federal, state, and local agents, for similar reasons. Three people were assessed fines totalling over $250,000.

Now in Canada, our government has declared war on a gentle, mild-mannered dairy farmer, assessing $110,000 in fines. Michaels Schmidt's terrible offence? He set up a shared-ownership situation in which he cared for people's cows and distributed THEIR milk to them! He initially won a court battle, but it was reversed in a higher court, in which the judge stated that Canadians do not have a fundamental right to drink milk, pasteurized or not, from animals they own.

In BC, I have set up a herd share operation so that the co-owners of EcoReality Co-op's dairy goat herd can legally (so we thought) obtain raw milk from their goats. So far, the regulators have not noticed our little operation. But you can be sure they will someday.

I would gladly go to jail for this cause. But they are too smart for that -- they don't want martyrs on their hands. Instead, they levy usurious fines, upon which they can seize assets, putting the raw dairy operations into bankruptcy.

But now they have a martyr on their hands. After trying to work with the authorities for 17 years, brave Michael Schmidt is in his 19th day of a hunger strike. He is seeking to meet with the Ontario Premiere in order to find a way that citizens can eat food of their choosing, from animals they own.

"But I don't drink milk," you might exclaim, or even "I'm vegan, and don't believe animals should be milked."

Well, remember what Pastor Martin Niemoller* wrote in the days of Nazi Germany? It may be milk they're after today, but it may be your bean sprouts tomorrow. This is not someone else's problem! This is a problem for ANYONE who wants control over what they eat.

Please join me in signing the petition!

Thanks!
Jan Steinman

* "In Germany they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me -- and by that time no one was left to speak up." -- Pastor Martin Niemoller

(The rest of this message came from the petition campaign, not me.)
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Hey,

I just signed the petition "Government of Canada: Support food freedom" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 10,000 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

http://www.change.org/petitions/government-of-canada-support-food-freedom

Thanks!
Jan"