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Saying California’s two raw milk dairies “got rolled by a state agency,” a state assemblywoman is taking steps to repeal a strict new standard that the dairies say will put them out of business and deprive 40,000 consumers of unpasteurized milk.
Owners of both raw milk dairies, Organic Pastures of Fresno and Claravale Farm of San Benito County, protested that they were never told of the proposed limit or given a chance to oppose it before the Legislature passed it without debate in October. It took effect Jan. 1.
On Wednesday afternoon, Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures and Ron and Collette Garthwaite of Claravale plan to bring a cadre of scientists, doctors and raw milk consumers to present their case for raw milk to a hearing of the Assembly Agriculture Committee, where the limit originated.
The committee’s chairwoman, Assemblywoman Nicole Parra, D-Hanford, said she is introducing an urgency bill to repeal of the [...]
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