Raw milk cow share meeting Dec. 5th with Michael Schmidt, farmers and regular folks, in Regina Saskatchewan

Michael Schmidt met today with people in Saskatchewan who are interested in the cowshare approach to raw milk. He sends these pictures from the meeting:

Of course raw milk was an important part of the event!

About the workshops, Michael Schmidt wrote: “Great meeting in Regina. First with over 70 people and then with about 10 farmers discussing cow share Canada. Planning cow share college in the spring.”

Food and farm control bill snagged

from Augie’s “Journal of Natural Food and Healing”:

Picture via Journal of Natural Food and Healing

“The so-called Food Safety Control S510 bill with the so-called savior Tester-Hagan amendments may now be passed back to the overwhelming approving Senate. This is a perfect example of hard-ball politics of division, where half the food freedom folks are for it and half against it.

Typically, federal control bills are written to appease large  stakeholders, then revised to include most stakeholders, changed several times in the process, including having several bills of different names. In this battle, the war on food controls by the corporate/government  partnership, the magic trick is to appear to save the small farms producing local foods, yet provide the legal and regulatory framework, with funding, to take it all way.

Americans are “Food Libertarians” — they want to eat what they want, when they want, and where they want

From a Society Pages post titled “Let them eat Cheetos”, a treatise on food and social class in America. Among their findings: “Essentially,” he [Michael Pollan] says, “we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.”

“The phrase “you are what you eat” may refer to more than your physical make-up. In fact, the food in your fridge might say just as much about your social class as about your health.  Newsweek reports:

Media news of B.C. raw milk decision

First off, here’s what they’re saying about raw milk and the Alice Jongerden verdict on BC Local News.com, along with this dynamite photo from the Chilliwack Health Unit raw milk drink-in. By Jeff Nagel:

Photo Jenna Hauck / Chilliwack Progress

“The former operator of a Chilliwack-based cow-sharing co-op has been found in contempt of court for illegally distributing raw milk but isn’t expected to be punished.