Two hundred supporters traveled from great distances to discuss raw milk at the Multipurpose Room of the Cook Campus Center in New Jersey.
Peter Southway, who has dedicated the last four years of his life to dairy farming and to Springhouse Dairy in Newton, N.J., was quoted as saying, “I’ve often thought that America was the land of the free, yet we don’t have the choice to buy raw milk – and yet the Food and Drug Administration has not approved any other forms of pasteurization.”
Joseph Heckman, a scientist at Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station and a recent supporter of their plight and gave credence to alternative forms of health, stating, “In Jersey, raw milk is not an illegal substance. Its sale and distribution is, and if you want to consume raw milk, it almost means you have to be a dairy farmer yourself.”
Mark McAfee, the founder of Organic Pastures [...]
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