CANADA: Farmer’s motion lays out case for selling unpasteurized milk - (Globe and Mail Update)
June 4, 2008 – 5:19 pmNEWMARKET, Ont. — What does the word include mean? And how should a person be defined?
Behind closed doors, a pretrial hearing for a farmer charged with selling unpasteurized milk was asked Wednesday to ponder those weighty questions.
At issue are charges brought against German-born organic farmer Michael Schmidt, 54, who for more than 20 years has been producing and selling raw milk from his Glencolton Farms, in Grey-Bruce County near Owen Sound.
That’s illegal under Ontario’s Health Protection and Promotion Act, as it is everywhere in Canada, and in 2006 Ministry of Natural Resources officials raided and searched Mr. Schmidt’s farm and seized his processing equipment.
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