* Dairy Farmer Michael Schmidt: 3 Weeks on Hunger Strike, Wants Talks With Canadian Premier McGuinty
"A reader commented on The Bovine site, Michael Schmidt’s WordPress blog, that if it’s legal to buy all sorts of raw foods: beef, pork, chicken, sushi and raw vegetables (which we know, of late, can be contaminated with e-coli or other organisms) as well as PRODUCTS THAT ARE KNOWN TO BE HARMFUL TO HEALTH such as alcohol, tobacco and over-the-counter drugs — then WHY is it illegal for people to drink milk from a cow-share?
Read the above paragraph again.
As I said in last week’s post on this hunger strike by Mr. Schmidt, people have been trading with farmers since just about the beginning of time. Up until the early 1900s, communities were agricultural based. The farmer supplied the food to the surrounding areas. Until the ‘advance’ of modern food and the system of grocery stores that we have now – our farmers were an important part of the landscape. They still are but the face has changed to the industrialized machine. Get big or get out!
This is all about control. “In the public’s best interest” is a statement uttered by agencies here and in Canada. As the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations are pointing out to the uninitiated of us who already know -and care- what goes on behind closed doors, this could also mean, “In the corporation’s best interest.” We all know that corporate influence is rampant in the food industry in its relations with the government."
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/10/22/dairy-farmer-michael-schmidt...
