Non-corporate farmers raising unconfined healthy cows living outdoors and eating a normal diet of grass are producing the only whole and FULLY nutritious milk.
THAT is the lesson that the history of pasteurization needs to teach.
Those farmers were functioning without industry-contamination issues since long before pasteurization and deserve and NEED freedom from industry-sized "public health" laws that were created to stop industry's worse excesses. One size does not fill all. If it did, we wouldn't have lost so many dairy farmers while the industry side continues to grow, despite all its excesses and abuses. Click here.
Regulations written by industry are eliminating small farmers. Certification for cleanliness is fine for small farmers but million dollar building and equipment standards, massive paperwork, global tracking systems, industry-imposed standards that in themselves eliminate normal food, (click here) - are not. They fit only corporations. They are unnecessary and have been and are meant to be literal threat to our fast disappearing small farms. Testing for diseases is fine as well, but by independent labs, not government labs controlled by agribusiness.
The limited understanding of the history of pasteurization and of its impact on food has played into the hands of the powerful food industry. People have been taught to believe a lie - they are being saved by this process, when in fact, they are losing out. And in having faith in pasteurization based on scientific misconceptions, the public ends by promoting industry's destruction of what is left of our real farmers and their healthier food, and all possibility of local, sustainable agriculture ever existing.
Pasteurization is the first of three basic "wonders of modern medical science" assumptions that liberals must revisit in light of its full impact on food, its use in the service an industrial monopoly, and its false relation to food safety. It must be seen in its true historical and industrial context if we are to save real farming, real food, and, thus, ourselves.
In this context, there is something you can do immediately to try to protect American farmers from the mother of all regulations that will destroy our farmers – NAIS. Click here
Farmers are asking the public to please vote against it. Please help them in this small way and and ask your friends and family to as well. Thank you.
While I have no faith left that Obama is sincere about saving American farmers and supporting sustainable agriculture after he selected Vilsack, an Monsanto crony, I have immense faith in farmers themselves and liberals believe in listening to the people involved and not governments or corporations to learn what is really going on. So, vote with a will and with increasing concern for YOUR American farmers.
The Obama Transition Team has set up a section called "Open for Questions" on the official website. They have not specified the deadline for submitting or voting on questions, but said they will respond to the top issues "in the new year."
Step 1: If you are not already signed up for the site, register at: https://www.change.org/admin/sign_up
Step 2: Go to http://www.change.org/ideas/view/stop_nais Be sure to click the box labeled "vote!" to the left of the Stop NAIS! Simply leaving a comment does not count as a vote.
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