| An Urgent Appeal for Justice Dear ___________, Today, governments are pouring enormous resources into interfering with people’s rights to their own property and to obtain the food they need for their well-being. Governments that are truly concerned with justice are supposed to protect citizens’ rights, not violate them. We urgently demand an open, in-depth dialogue with government and health officials about these violations of food freedom and property ownership. Increasing numbers of people consider it crucial to their health to obtain high-quality foods directly from organic, sustainable farms. These foods often include raw dairy products, meat and eggs from free-ranging, grass-fed animals-foods of very dense nutrient value that cannot be found in grocery stores. In states and provinces where the law bans the sale of raw milk, people enter into contracts to co-own a cow and board the animal with a farmer. As owners of the cow, they are also the owners of the milk the cow produces, and are legally entitled to drink it because no sale of milk is involved. These arrangements are called “cowshares.” The most allergenic food in North America is pasteurized milk, so it is not an option for many families. Raw milk is not allergenic and actually cures asthma and allergies (huge international studies show this to be true). That is why we must be free to have that choice. That is why our lack of food freedom creates illness and pushes us all into food slavery. These basic principles of justice must prevail: —Food freedom is an inalienable constitutional right —Rights to one’s own property is a legally binding principle —Cowshares are a legal binding contract of property ownership —Access to foods from small farms is essential to the health and well-being of families who choose these foods —Small sustainable farms are essential to the health of agriculture world-wide —Governmental interference of property ownership rights along with violations to basic human rights of food freedom must end —Government and health authorities must abstain from the infringement of rights and violence against cowshare programs. Sincerely,
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