The story behind the story of Ron Paul’s raw-milk proposal - (The Complete Patient)
November 19, 2007 – 7:06 pmhttp://www.thecompletepatient.com/journal/2007/11/19/the-story-behind-the-story-of-ron-pauls-raw-milk-proposal-ar.html
The speech in Congress and introduction of legislation permitting interstate shipments of raw milk by Rep. Ron Paul didn’t just happen in a vacuum.
According to an email account from Aajonus Vonderplanitz, the California raw food expert, the move by the dark-horse presidential candidate grew out of a concerted two-month campaign last summer by Aajonus and two other raw-milk advocates, Jeff Slay of St. Louis, MO, and Leslie Jacob of Appleton, WI. Here is how he describes the effort:
“Even though we were there two months,
we were able to meet with 76 legislative representatives only. Personally, we met with three legislators. Probably 72 of the 76 believed that raw milk carried disease. When we left the meetings, all but four of them believed that raw milk was advantageous to health and bacteria in it was not a problem. Three of them were uncertain and one was outright negative and refused to help […]
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