Success! Rally For Food and Farm Freedom

Lois Rain
Health Freedom Alliance 

You could just feel the passion, enthusiasm, and energy brimming among the 400 or so attendants at Monday’s Rally for Food and Farm Freedom. We met in D.C. and peacefully protested just one month after the FDA’s year long sting operation and armed raid against Amish farmer Dan Allgyer culminated over the distribution of unpasteurized milk. HFA has followed the story ever since the FDA began harassing Mr. Allgyer early last year.

Buyer’s club, Grassfed On the Hill’s Liz Reitzig and Karine Bouis-Towe organized the event that included a variety of prominent speakers and food freedom advocates, free raw milk tastings, and the lovely Jersey cow, Morgan, who made a grand entrance, happily grazed Upper Senate Hill grass, and shared her fresh milk with the crowd.

Buyer’s club, Grassfed On the Hill’s Liz Reitzig and Karine Bouis-Towe organized the event that included a variety of prominent speakers and food freedom advocates, free raw milk tastings, and the lovely Jersey cow, Morgan, who made a grand entrance, happily grazed Upper Senate Hill grass, and shared her fresh milk with the crowd. 

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The War on Milk - GM Dairy and Cancer Links

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Updated excerpt from Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom

Brandon Turbeville

Activist Post 

I wrote an article recently detailing the impacts of rBGH on the welfare of dairy cows. I explained how the use of rBGH was responsible for increased rates of mastitis and how rBGH injections actually have the potential to decrease milk production. Yet, aside from the damage to the animals, rBGH usage is significant in that it also affects humans consuming the milk.

This is because Insulin Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1), another powerful hormone increased in the animals’ system by injections of rBGH, lingers in the milk and has been linked to breast, colon, and prostate cancer in humans.[1]

IGF-1 is present naturally in both cows and humans, and is important for mediating cellular response to growth hormones. While the growth hormones themselves are quite different, cow and human IGF-1 are identical to one another.[2]

Mothers crying over raw milk

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times

Four weeks after the government moved to shut down Amish farmer Dan Allgyer for selling fresh, unpasteurized milk across state lines, angry moms who made up much of his customer base rallied on the Capitol’s grounds Monday to demand that Congress rein in the food police.

The moms milked a cow just across the street from the Senate and served up gallons of fresh milk, playfully daring one another to drink what, if sold across state lines, would be considered contraband product.

“The FDA really screwed up this time. They got between a mom and a farmer,” said Mark McAfee, who runs Organic Pastures Dairy Co. in Fresno, Calif., which under his state’s laws he legally sells at 400 markets, but which he cannot ship across state lines without running afoul of the Food and Drug Administration.



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rBGH Milk Production: Animal Cruelty, Genetically Modified Hormones and E. Coli

Updated excerpt from Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom

Brandon Turbeville 

Activist Post

With the current controversy surrounding the government crackdown on wholesome, organic, and locally produced milk, it is important to understand the products we are being pushed toward, as well as those we are being pushed away from. While the benefits of organic and raw milk is largely undeniable when compared to the industrially produced substitute, the dangers of the latter are not discussed quite as frequently. Of these dangers, rBGH is a central figure.

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (also known as Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin) is a genetically engineered hormone that is injected into cows for the purpose of increasing milk production.[1]  It is derived from bovine somatotropin (bST) which is a hormone that is produced naturally in the cattle by the pituitary gland. This hormone is very important for growth and development, as well as other functions of the animal’s body.

Sometime in the 1930s it was discovered that injecting cattle with bST increased milk production. However, because bST is produced in the animal itself, the only source available was in the pituitary glands of the slaughtered cattle. Genetic engineering thus came into play. 

UPDATED: Home Rule takes a beating as Maine defeats food freedom bills

Bake sales to fall under hyper-regulation

Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

In the state that made international news this year when three towns passed a food sovereignty ordinance, two bills that would have bolstered them at the state level met with defeat in Maine’s legislative Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee.

Sponsored by Rep. Walter Kumiega, LD 366 was rejected by the Ag Committee on May 11. The raw milk bill would have obviated licensing for the direct sale from farmer to consumer and protected small operations from overly burdensome rules recently imposed at the bureaucratic level.

“Requiring someone with two cows or a handful of goats to invest ten thousand dollars or more to build an inspectable facility doesn’t make economic sense,”  Kumiega told Food Freedom.  “Hand milking is a perfectly acceptable method and does not need the same facilities that a machine milking operation does. LD 366 seeks to restore an exemption that was a standard practice up until two years ago, when it was changed by an administrative decision.”

In response to the Ag Committee’s issuance of a Majority Ought Not to Pass report on LD 366, Kumiega requested a roll call, which showed that by a vote of 80-70, the House accepted the Ag Committee’s recommendation not to pass the bill.

A Major Legal Victory in the Fight for Hormone-Free Milk

After two years, a federal court has ruled that Ohio's ban on the labeling of dairy products as hormone-free is unconstitutional.

Jeff Deasy
Alternet

After two years of wrangling in the courts, a federal court has ruled that Ohio's ban on the labeling of dairy products as hormone-free is unconstitutional. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is a major setback for corporations selling dairy products from cows treated with synthetic bovine hormones to an unwitting public.

It was the court's decision that Ohio's absolute ban on voluntary, hormone-free labeling violated the First Amendment rights of dairy processors and was "more extensive than necessary to serve the state's interest in preventing consumer deception."

The landmark case was brought to court by the Organic Trade Association (OTA). OTA and its members, including Horizon Organic®, Organic Valley®, and Stonyfield Farm®, filed the appeal in conjunction with the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA).

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