Raw Milk Consumer Guide: How to Choose Your Raw Dairy Farmer

Dr. Amanda Rose has been gracious enough to let us publish her excellent Raw Milk Consumer Guide. Depending on which state you live in and the current laws in that state, you will either be able to obtain raw milk from a health food store, direct from the farm, through a buyer's club, or via a herd share type of program. Current estimates put raw milk consumers in the USA above 9 million, and quite possibly closer to 12 million, and increasing rapidly. As a result, a consumer guide like this is absolutely essential to ensure you are obtaining the quality of raw milk you desire. Farmers are like any other sector of society: there are good ones and bad ones. Just because someone is willing to sell you their milk raw, do not assume that it is the type of product you want to consume simply because it is raw.

The Last Farm in the City – The War Against Small Farms and Raw Milk in California

A short version of a documentary-in-progress about Evergreen Acres Goat Farm, a small family farm in San Jose, CA, that is struggling to maintain their herd-share operation following the attempt of local law enforcement and the California Department of Food and Agriculture to shut them down.

Politics more than Science Behind Government Attacks Against Raw Milk

Foodborne Illnesses in America:

Complex Factory Foods pose the Highest Risk

by Rady Ananda

A close look at the people behind the raw milk scare, and the actual numbers of foodborne illness, reveals that politics more than science drives the food safety agenda in the U.S.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack just appointed Susan […]

California: Herdshare Dairy and Goat Owners File Suit Against CDFA over Raw Milk Private Ownership Rights

Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Falls Church, Virginia (August 9, 2011)–The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund on behalf of its California members, San Jose goat farmers Mike and Jane Hulme and San Jose goat owners Ian Gerbode, Sara-Jane Skiwski and Sarah Sullivan, has filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Food and Agriculture […]

Tucker Adkins Dairy Asks FDA for Reputation Back: Test Results Vindicate Raw Milk and Dairy Farm

Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund
“How do we get our reputation back?” That’s what Tommy and Carolyn Adkins of Tucker Adkins Dairy were asking after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) acknowledged last week that raw milk suspected of harboring campylobacter tested negative. On July 16 FDA […]

Raw Food Co-op in LA Raided Again for Raw Milk Distribution

by David Gumpert
The Complete Patient
When you watch the brief video below of the raid yesterday on Rawesome Food Club, resist the inclination to focus on the conversation and shouting happening off to the left. Instead, keep an eye on the guy who keeps appearing on the right. He’s the law enforcement […]

You are 35,000 times more likely to become ill from other foods than you are from raw milk

By Ted Beals, MD
RealMilk.com
Those Pathogens, What You Should Know
Remarks delivered at the Third International Raw Milk Symposium, May 7, 2011, Bloomington, Minnesota.

I wish to begin by saying that the real discussion of food, including raw milk, should focus on the undeniable values and benefits for our development and sustained health. Sally […]

California Moves to Take Away Citizens Right to Board Cows, Goats

Michael and Jane Hulme and Two Nubian Goats
by Kimberly Hartke
hartkeisonline.com
Michael Hulme is a 67 year old former Vice President of Business Development for a semiconductor firm. He lost his position as a result of our nation’s economic downturn. Because there were no jobs to be had in California, he and his […]

The Advantages of Raw Milk…Cooked!

by Maureen
Home Made Mothering

About a year and a half ago I wrote a post about my interest in raw milk. All the milk sold in American grocery stores is pasteurized at either 161 degrees for 15 seconds or 145 degrees for 30 minutes. Pasteurization kills any dangerous bacteria potentially lurking […]

California Raw Milk Farmer Stands Up to California Department of Food and Agriculture

Photo by BRYAN PATRICK / bpatrick@sacbee.com
By Carlos Alcalá
The Sacramento Bee
Excerpts:
Pattie Chelseth thinks she has the right to sell you a fraction of a cow.

Chelseth, operator of My Sisters’ Farm in Shingle Springs, keeps two cows owned by 15 people.

A cow’s owner can legally drink its milk filtered but unpasteurized, so she believes each […]