21st of October 2011
 

Fw: Urgent Raw Milk Alert - Appeal for Justice against Government Interference

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From: Marcie McBee <mcbeedairyfarm@att.net>
Date: Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Subject: Fw: Urgent Raw Milk Alert - Appeal for Justice against Government Interference
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Hay guys and galls it is me again,

 

I know that you all are very busy but this is very important if you want freedom to choose what you eat and feed your family or how you even use your land. The government can attempt to take that away if we ignore it. I am not going to ignore someone else’s plea for support when we may be next. We need to support Michael’s Schmidt in what he is doing. Please take time to read the below information and email or call or copy and print and mail the letter bellow. I have been following this story for a while now (Michael ran the first right up that the news sentinel did about us in Canada). When Farm to Consumer sends out and action alert it does not need to be taken lightly as they do not do it often, only when there is immediate danger in loosing your right to chose.

 

If you don’t have time to gather an envelope or a stamp just give it to us at a drop and we will do that part for you.

Please foward this to all your friends also.

 

Thanks

Marcie McBee



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From: FTCLDF President <admin@farmtoconsumer.org>
To: mcbeedairyfarm@att.net
Sent: Fri, October 21, 2011 1:38:20 AM
Subject: Urgent Raw Milk Alert - Appeal for Justice against Government Interference
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Action Alert

Mobilizing Against Governmental Interference with Property Ownership Rights and Food Freedom

 
Michael’s Schmidt’s urgent message:
We must mobilize our forces throughout Canada and the US with an enormous public outcry. We need to put relentless pressure on legislators in both countries-national, state and local-and also on health authorities through a massive letter-writing and call-in campaign. [See the Sample Letter at end of this alert.]
 
We also need to organize face-to-face meetings whenever possible. Canada desperately needs US support in these matters, so we encourage all US members to send messages to key Canadian contacts as well.

Please take the first action now then share this alert with others! 

BACKGROUND
On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, the Ontario government won its appeal against biodynamic farmer, Michael Schmidt. The appeal reversed the former ruling, which confirmed cow share members’ right to obtain raw milk products. Justice Peter Tetley rejected Schmidt’s argument that providing raw milk to cow share owners who are aware of any health risks was his legal right.
Schmidt has been fighting for the right to provide raw milk at his Grey County farm ever since it was raided by government officials in 1994. The recent ruling convicts Michael on 15 of 19 charges and reverses last year’s lower court decision to acquit him of all charges. This latest judicial ruling basically endorses governmental interference of property ownership rights and violates basic human rights to food freedom.

 

Since this ruling, Michael has embarked on a hunger strike and faces imminent danger of another raid to his farm, as do other farms that participate in Cowshare Canada.
He feels that our movement is in great danger and we must act in unison now!
ACTION TO TAKE 
It is imperative that we organize to a much higher level. We need everyone in our movement to participate. We are asking:

 

2. US citizens to write letters and call local, state, and federal legislators in the U.S. and to write letters to Canadian members of the Provincial Parliament in Ontario and British Columbia listed below in this alert.  [Use sidebar link to find US legislators]

 

3. Canadian citizens to write letters to Canadian members of the Provincial Parliament in Ontario and British Columbia listed below in this alert.
4. Folks in the U.S. and Canada to write letters and call your local and state health officials. [Google your state/province and “health department” to locate your officials]

 

Michael is depending on us to back up his brave efforts for food freedom!
 CANADIAN CONTACTS
Legislative Building
Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario  M7A 1A1
Tel:  1-800-387-5559      
Fax:  416-325-3745
Send Online Message to Dalton at
https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/en/feedback/feedback.aspx

 Michael de Jong - Minister of Health

Room 337, Parliament Buildings
Victoria, British Columbia   V8V 1X4

Tel: 250 953-3547      
Fax: 250 356-9587
hlth.minister@gov.bc.ca  


The following are MPPs (Members of the Ontario Provincial Parliament otherwise known as the Ontario Legislative Assembly):

Tim Hudak - Leader of the Opposition
(MPP -   Niagara West—Glanbrook)
4961 King St. E, Unit M1
Beamsville, Ontario   L0R 1B0
Tel:  905-563-1755  (or toll free at 1-800-665-3697)

timhudak@niagara.net 

Deb Matthews - Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
(MPP -  London North Centre)
242 Piccadilly Street, Main Floor
London, Ontario  N6A 1S4
Tel:  519-432-7339  
Fax: 519-432-0613

dmatthews.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org 

Andrea Horwath - Leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP)
(MPP - Hamilton Centre)
20 Hughson Street South, Suite 200
Hamilton, Ontario  L8N 2A1
Tel:  905-544-9644      
Fax: 905-544-5152

ahorwath-co@ndp.on.ca 

(MPP - Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington)
105 Dufferin Street, Unit 1
Perth, Ontario  K7H 3A5
Tel:  613-267-8239      
Fax: 613-267-7398

randy.hillierco@pc.ola.org 

Jack MacLaren
(MPP - Carleton—Mississippi Mills)
2 Beaverbrook Mall, Unit 102
Kanata, Ontario  K2K 1L2
Tel:  877-780-5225      

jack@jackmaclaren.com 

Greg Sorbara - (also has Queen’s Park Office)
 (Liberal MPP in Ontario - Vaughan)
140 Woodbridge Avenue, Unit AU8 
Woodbridge, Ontario  L4L 4K9
Tel:  905-851-0440      
Fax: 905-851-0210

or  

Queen’s Park Office
Room 186, Main Legislative Building
Toronto, Ontario  M7A 1A4
Tel:  416-212-1022        
Fax: 416-212-1025
Larry Miller  - Chair of Standing Committee on Agriculture in Ottawa
(Federal Conservative MP for Grey)
1131 2nd Avenue East, Suite 208
Owen Sound, Ontario  N4K 2J1
Tel:  519-371-1059        
Fax: 519-371-1752
or
Room 510, Justice Building
Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0A6
Tel:  613-996-5191      
Fax: 613-952-0979
SAMPLE LETTER
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,

About the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund:

FTCLDF is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization made up of farmers and consumers joining together and pooling resources to protect the constitutional rights of the nation’s family farms and the consumers who patronize them. Annual membership is $125 for Farmers and $50 for Consumers.   

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Visit www.farmtoconsumer.org or call 703-208-3276   

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Michael Schmidt - got freedom?
Ontario dairy farmer, Michael Schmidt has practiced biodynamic farming for over 33 years. For many years, Michael has produced raw milk for human consumption under an arrangement called “cow-sharing”. No-one has ever gotten sick from drinking the milk from Michael’s farm, but that doesn’t matter to the Ontario government.

Read “Michael Schmidt on Hunger Strike for Responsible Food Freedom”.
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