Definitely see the new the ARMi Campaign Base http://j.mp/armi2 and the Resource page at http://milk.livingfood.us  . Here is a New Release if you want to spread this around or forward. There is a Facebook share button set up at the Base.—Happy New Year! Mr. Augie and Mrs. Annie

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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2012 Real Raw Milk Campaign Launched  
MILLERSBURG, OHIO(January 1, 2012)– A no-cost, flyer comparing farm-fresh raw milk with processed, store-bought milk is being offered by the Journal of Natural Food and Health and the Alliance for Raw Milk Internationale (ARMi) to launch their 2012 Real Farm Food Campaign. The education, outreach and marketing campaign is for consumers who need good food facts to make healthy choices for their families and to help food producers with marketing their local dairy and food products. These powerful flyers, for both cow and goat milk, are being handed out at farmer’s markets, stores, food groups, health shows and by health professionals. Give the gift of living food and support your farmer today. Help yourself to these free downloads at the ARMi Campaign Base http://j.mp/armi2

It was Christmas Day 2009 when I started the now 1100 member Wisconsin Alliance for Raw Milk. This Facebook venture called Alliance for Raw Milk Internationale (ARMi) now reaches all fifty states and 7 other countries. So, I am thrilled to be able to make this available this Christmas Day at no-cost–thanks to all who have taught me so much to make this happen, including all the Journal readers. Print them out!

This new flyer will go along way to market the real raw milk in your local area. It is a strategic weapon for your arsenal in the war against the federal, state and local unified plan to ban this healthy food by 2020. Please be sure to show it to your dairy producer. Anyone can have it customized for their dairy or real food business. Mrs. Annie, my wife said: “This new tool will help start the New Year off right by introducing a lot of people to real dairy and healthy food choices and make real raw milk more accessible to all Americans.”

These are free, printer-ready flyers. In return, we only ask you to complete a one-minute survey. We need to know how you plan on using the flyers and about how many you plan to print out to give, etc.

If  you want to promote this, we want everyone pointed to j.mp.milkraw so they can register and get the full benefits. Use this link for your emails, Facebook, blog posts etc. But there are share buttons below also.

GO GET THEM NOW!

God Bless You and Merry Christmas,
David Michael, M.S., P.E.
Mr. Augie and Mrs. Annie
ARMi, Journal of Natural Food and Health

(There are two versions: one with two biblical references; and one without them)

See the Spy -Counter-spy on the left.

GO GET THEM NOW!

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Stealing the milk bottle from a baby and giving her Coke and candy in its place is dangerous to her health.  Don’t take the candy from a government/corporate/academia partnership– and that is a stranger to most people on Main Street.–Augie

RAW Milk and Constitutional rights

by Guest Blogger, ©Doreen Hannes 2010

Morningland Dairy is the latest attempt by the FDA to fulfill the Healthy People 2020 objective to kill raw dairy. Morningland is owned by Joseph and Denise Dixon, who operate the cheese plant and make raw cheese from cows kept right on the property and managed by one of their eldest daughters. They have 12 children, 4 who still live at home, and they have been actively engaged in real food for decades.  They were caught up in the Rawesome Raid dragnet and many believe the questionable California Dept of Food and Agriculture tests on their cheese are the legal justification for the multi-agency guns drawn raid at Rawesome.

Farm’s Perfect Safety Record Matters Not to Authorities

In the thirty years of Morningland Dairy operations NO ONE has become ill from consuming their products. Yet they have been ordered by the Missouri Milk Board to destroy ALL of their cheese without actual tests being performed on the cheese stock. This is nearly 50,000 pounds of cheese, or approximately $250,000.

Since the Milk Board and the FDA showed up at Morningland on August 26th, they have been “embargoed” from shipping or making any product. They dumped their milk for nearly six weeks before being approved to send it into homogenized, pasteurized distribution. All the while, they have had to pay the bill to keep the dairy and cheese plant operable.

On September 24th, the Milk Board verbally ordered Morningland to destroy their product. Morningland asked that this order be put in writing. One week later the order was hand delivered to General Manager/owner, Joseph Dixon. The order states that in three business days the Milk Board would contact them with when and how the cheese was to be destroyed.

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In other news, the Georgia ARMi put out a video of a segment of a debate between the two candidates for GA Director of Ag.

There will be a fundraiser for a natural, raw cheese operation in Missouri who has been ordered by the State to destroy 50,000 pounds of cheese for no good reason.

For the last couple years in Ohio, it was illegal to label milk as being free of the genetically engineered growth hormone drug rbGH– like companies are now saying HFCS-Free! The pharmaceutical and dairy cartels, in concert with their partners inside Ohio government– did not wish their product to be thought of as dangerous to your health, as it is known to be in Europe. –Augie

Today, Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception, made his remarks at the Huffington Post:

ATTENTION SHOPPERS. An appeals court just upheld your right to easily choose drug-free milk from drug-free cows. This is a victory.

rbGH is banned in most other countries and banished from most US dairies, it still lurks behind friendly “All Natural” labels of companies like Breyers Ice Cream.

. . . I propose that dairies use a different disclaimer than that now required by Ohio law. Here’s what I propose:

Ohio governor Strickland and other politicians who cater more to the interests of biotech companies than consumers, require that we state, ‘According to the FDA, there is no significant difference between the milk from cows injected with rbST compared to those not injected.’

Read Smith’s article,  Ohio Court Victory: Bovine Growth Hormone Labeling

You will also want to see Smith’s 4-minute video interview on this topic here at the Journal in  Your Milk on Drugs

While we are at it, see the brief video of Indiana’s 32,000-Cow SuperMax Dairy Factory.

Courtesy of NaturalNews.com

Like moonshine in the US Prohibition Era, raw milk is being targeted as unhealthy and dangerous, but unlike moonshine, raw milk that is produced following strict code of cleanliness and correct nutrition for the animals producing it, is safe. Even for babies. In the absence of mother’s milk, raw milk can be combined with other ingredients to make a baby formula that helps babies thrive, and meets the nutritional needs of babies much better than powdered or canned baby formula can. Also, unlike alcohol prohibition, today’s heavy regulation and bans on raw milk seem to be spurred more by big agriculture and the dairy industry to suppress unwanted competition, rather than a genuine desire to protect public health by a nanny state run amok.

Before the prohibition, clean water was scarce, and milk had become dangerous due to the cattle being fed the grain byproduct, or “swill,” left over from alcohol production. By the 1820′s the average American, including children, was drinking an average of 7 gallons of pure alcohol annually or the equivalent of about 2.5 ounces of pure alcohol daily, which translates out to 70 gallons of beer, or 39 gallons of wine, or 15.5 gallons of distilled liquor, per year.

To try to control the use of alcohol, reformers began an educational campaign teaching temperance or the “reduction or elimination of the use of alcoholic beverages.” Reformers experienced a significant amount of success with their educational campaigns, and In the 1830′s the average alcohol intake was down to only 3 gallons of pure alcohol per year, but because of alcohol’s addictive properties, reformers set their sights on ending alcohol consumption completely.

During this time, according to Jeffrey A. Miron at Boston University, “temperance movements waxed and waned in the U.S. from early in the nineteenth century, and these movements produced numerous state prohibitions. Many of these prohibitions were subsequently repealed, however, and those that persisted were widely regarded as ineffective. Amid the atmosphere created by World War I, support for national prohibition reached critical mass, and the country ratified the 18th Amendment to the Constitution in January, 1919. Under this amendment and the Volstead Act, which provided for the enforcement of Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol were prohibited by federal law.”

Aside from the differing reasons for temperance, the parallels are strong. The current “raw milk temperance” being pushed by the big dairy industry has the same goal – to use federal law to end “the manufacture, transportation, and sale of” raw milk intended for direct sale to the consumer – albeit for differing reasons. Raw milk temperance also enjoyed a huge success as the result of its ‘educational’ smear campaign against raw milk in the early to middle 1900’s, and almost completely wiped out small raw dairies who were selling directly to consumers. But that was not good enough. Now in the wake of consumers’ ever increasing interest in local farm fresh foods, the dairy industry has doubled its efforts to eradicate raw dairy altogether using federal regulation and whatever means possible.

Like alcohol consumption, raw milk does have its risks – just as any other food does. However, food borne illness from raw milk is relatively small compared to that of other raw foods, even when compared to pasteurized milk. Supporters of raw milk prohibition claim that the reason those instances are small is due to the fact that less than 10% of the US population consumes raw milk, and that in fact, instances of food borne illness are actually higher per capita. Even if this were true, their comparison does not take into account the diet of the cow producing the milk, or the difference between raw milk that has been properly handled and raw milk that has not. It also does not take into account that there have been no deaths from food borne illness associated with raw milk in many years, but there have been deaths from food borne illnesses linked with other foods, including pasteurized milk and cheese.

The standards of cleanliness and the way that cows producing raw milk for direct sale are fed have improved dramatically since the days of the swill milk dairies. Even if they had not, you would think that the temperance movement would take a lesson from history – prohibition was unsuccessful then, and it won’t work now.

Now, for tonight’s post over at the Journal of Living Food and Healing, at our new domain at livingfood.us.  Also there is a Tip Jar there and a chance to receive a PDF of Living Food at http://ishop.livingfood.us  the iShop (ARMi store) will be opened soon.

Here are some examples of new ARM Twitters. These are being used for state-specific raw milk/farm food freedom links/news/info. These are voluntary standards, of course, but you may find this fun and easy once you get the hang of it.

http://twitter.com/TXRawMilk
http://twitter.com/OhioRawMilk
http://twitter.com/AKRawMilk
http://twitter.com/WAARM

The preferred naming standard is MassRawMilk, MinnRawMilk or OhioRawMilk. Everyone is useing the state ARM logo–so it looks real cool across the internet and gets attention. The best way to focus and make your feed valuable is to post raw milk and food/farm freedom issues specific to your state or surrounding states and the bigger national stories. Of course, it is up to you if you post recipes too!

These will be aggregated into the USARMi feed at http://twitter.com/USARMi to create a live streaming international feed on ARMi Posts (http://milkraw.wordpress.com SEE IT ) and the ARM Internationale web page http://wholefoodusa.org

This will be in addition to a separate feed Cathy Raymond does http://twitter.com/CathyAtTheFund

Comment below if you will set one up and let us know so we can include you on the ARM Internationale feed! (It’s working!)