Daily Archives: December 14, 2010

Michael Schmidt’s first raw milk news conference in late November of 2006

This event took place at Glencolton Farms, a few days after the raid on the farm by armed enforcement officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources. It was attended by raw milk supporters and representatives of local news media:

Story in a local newspaper from four years ago. That's how long this latest round has been going on.

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Raw milk is still “getting ink” in Saskatoon nearly two weeks after Michael Schmidt’s visit Dec. 2nd

Amy Jo Ehman writes in the Saskatchewan Star Phoenix:

Raw milk is still headline news is Saskatoon, 11 days after Michael Schmidt's visit.

“You wouldn’t think that something so basic as milk could be controversial. However, milk has made a renegade out of me.

I have on occasion bought milk from a local farmer — an act that is both venerable and verboten. The sale of raw, unprocessed, straight-from-the-farm milk is illegal in Canada. More specifically, it is illegal to sell milk that has not been pasteurised. Continue reading

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