From Brad Kava in the Santa Cruz Patch:
Bring your own goat! Photo via Santa Cruz Patch. Click image to go there.
“Last week Santa Cruz went to the dogs, with its new law giving canines rights to visit the boutique downtown.
This week it’s going to the goats, who will be milked near the downtown farmer’s market by a group of protesting farmers. The milk, unprocessed and untainted by the government, will be shared for free at 3 p.m., after a 2:30 p.m. parade of goats.
The protest stems from attempts by the California Food and Drug Administration to limit consumption of unprocessed milk by dairy collectives, those that share their food among shareholders. The CDFA says all dairies should be licensed to monitor public health issues.
Family farmers say they have a right to eat their own food without government intervention.
The CDFA has tried to shut down the shareholder operations with cease and desist letters, including one sent last week to a collective in Willits and a threat of $10,000 fines given to a herdshare in San Jose, one of the last family dairy farms in that city. It also raided one farm in Ventura and arrested its owner Aug. 3, and in the same raid cited a Venice health food store….”
The Bovine 
In case you haven’t put two and two together, this is related to the Rawsome raid a couple of weeks ago.