Dec

Greene Co health department’s anti raw milk political agenda

It would appear that the Greene County Health Department is exercising an anti raw milk political agenda. The following is a post from the local Weston A. Price foundation chapter website.

Save Our Raw Milk

In recent months farmers all over Southwest Missouri have been harassed by the Greene County Health Dept. The Health Dept. has decided that, across the board, no raw milk may be sold in Greene County. There is no law to back up their demands. Raw milk is legal to sell through out Missouri.

What this means to you the consumer, if Greene County has their way, is that you will be forced to drive out to the farm to pick up your life giving raw milk. This would be inconvenient for you and may cause the producers to lose customers as well. In addition, if Greene County realizes that they can boss the small farmer around they will continue to make power grabs and who knows where they will stop.
We have chosen to take a stand for raw milk in southwest Missouri. You can do several things to get involved and help preserve our freedom to purchase the food we desire.
· Sign the petition provided by your raw milk producer.
· Meet us in Jefferson City January 12, 2010 for the big raw milk rally to support one of our local producers.
· Show your face at our rally and other events to make it apparent that there are thousands of people that are adamant about their right to purchase raw milk.
· Rally others. The more people we have at these events the more seriously we will be taken.
We are not alone. There was recently a fight very similar to ours in California. The people rallied, got involved and made a difference. The law was changed and raw milk is now freely available all throughout the state of California. We can do this.
For more information please talk to your raw milk supplier, check out our website at www.417wapf.com and subscribe to our yahoo group to keep up to date on the latest action on the raw milk front.