Michael Schmidt talks to the press outside the Newmarket courtroom.
NOW Magazine recorded an audio interview with several of the participants in the International Raw Milk Symposium on Saturday and they have now posted it for download on their website. Click the player that looks like the image bolow (on the NOW Magazine website) to play the audio interview on your computer. Click here to go to the NOW Magazine story and audio interview.
Go to the Now Magazine page and click on the audio player that looks like this (above).
“It was November 2006 when 25 armed Ministry of Natural Resources closed in on Michael Schmidt’s Glencolton Farms in Durham, Ontario, and confiscated files, computers, and…milk.
What kind of milk? Milk with melamine? No. Milk with listeria? No. Milk contaminated with chemical sanitizer? No, not even the kind of milk you’d get at the Korova Milk Bar. It was raw cow’s milk, and the government still wants you to think it will kill you.
If our government is so adamant about denying Canadians the raw milk choice (the US and half of the US is fine with it), it’s fair that Schmidt push back with some expert science. Enter the Raw Milk Symposium held at U of T’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) this past Saturday with about 150 in attendence.
The daylong gathering brought out, among others, Australian microbiologist Ron Hull, who specialized in dairy microbiology, and pathologist Ted Beals. Both were in town as expert witnesses in the Schmidt case.
They sat down with me to record a step-by-step explanation of why Michael Schmidt, and Canadians are getting burned by fear-mongering, misinformation, bureaucracy, and big business interests….”
Click here to go to the NOW Magazine story and audio interview.
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