***Prepare to attend the biggest raw milk event in history: raw milk needs you like never before on April 15th** - (Mark McAfee, Founder OPDC)
March 31, 2008 – 8:42 pmIt is now official. Senator Dean Florez and Senator Abel Maldonado will hold joint hearings on raw milk in California.
Representing the CDFA and the FDA will be the chief of FDA dairy safety, John Sheehan, along with eight other university food safety experts.
Protecting our right to drink raw milk will be a very special Raw Milk Dream Team. These experts include Sally Fallon, Jordan Rubin, Ted Beals, MD., Cat Berge DVM PhD, and more to come in the next two weeks. Also joining us are powerful advocates like Walter Robb, president of Wholefoods. Together, we will argue that the raw milk industry in California has a long history of safety; that raw milk provides superior nutrition; and consuming raw milk is a matter of personal choice.
We expect a history-making showdown that will significantly impact the destiny of our food choices. These hearings will send a message to our government that [...]
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