CDC Letter to States
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) continued the federal government’s ongoing campaign to prohibit raw milk sales and consumption in a July 18 letter to state epidemiologists and public health veterinarians entitled, “The Ongoing Public Health Haz...
Defending Raw Milk in the Policy Arena
By Judith McGeary, Esq.
“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status,” said Laurence Peter, author of The Peter Principle .
The raw milk movement continues to gain momentum due to increasing consumer dem...
FDA Wages Secret War on Raw Milk Farmers
By Mike Adams
Editor's Note: The following shocking article was published on NaturalNews.com on August 25, 2011 and is reprinted here in edited version with permission of the author, Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and NaturalNews Editor. It confirms...
Federal Legislation
By Pete Kennedy, Esq.
Update, Spring 2012—HR1830
With the increased FDA aggression against raw milk producers and consumers, HR1830, a bill that would effectively overturn the interstate ban on raw milk, continues to take on greater importance. T...
Food Safety Modernization Act (S510)
By Pete Kennedy, Esq.
On August 12, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the manager’s package for the “Food Safety Modernization Act,” a revised version of S510. The most alarming change in the bill is one that ...
FTCLDF Lawsuit against FDA
By Pete Kennedy, Esq.
Update, Summer 2012
On March 30 federal district judge Mark W. Bennett issued an order dismissing a lawsuit challenging the interstate commerce ban on raw milk for human consumption filed by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense...
Interstate Raw Milk Sales
By Pete Kennedy, Esq.
The ban on interstate (from state to state) shipments of raw milk is the single greatest impediment to raw milk sales in the US. This ban is widely misunderstood to have stemmed from a presidential executive order; actually it...
National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments
The National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) is held every other year in odd numbered years. See their website at: ncims.org .
2009 Conference
The 32nd National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments (NCIMS) met in Orlando from April...
Raw Milk: Laying the Groundwork for the Future
By Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
The following article appeared in Passages, the newsletter of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. For more information go to www.pasafarming.org .
Hundreds of Pennsylvania...
The Law on Raw Pet Milk Sales
By Pete Kennedy, Esq.
While federal law prohibits the sale of raw milk for human consumption in interstate commerce, and around half the states either ban or severely limit the sale of raw milk for human consumption in intrastate commerce, similar...
