Garden State Raw Milk Mission:
To Legalize the Sale of Raw Milk in NJ
Our vision: To see clean, safe, locally-produced raw milk and raw milk products from well-managed New Jersey dairies legally available for purchase across our Garden State.
Upcoming Events
The Raw Revolution
David Gumpert, Author Lecture & Book Signing
2:00 pm, Cook Campus, Marine Science Building, Alampi Auditorium
Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 0890111:00 am, Monroe Township Public Library
4 Municipal Plaza, Monroe Township NJ 08831
At both of these events, David Gumpert will be signing books and speaking on America's growing battle over food rights.
UPDATE - On May 11, 2010, the NJ Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing in Trenton to discuss the legalization of raw milk in NJ. More than a dozen people including State Senator Marcia Karrow, dairy farmers, consumers, representatives from the Farm Bureau and the Foodshed Alliance, and chapter leaders from the Weston A. Price Foundation, testified with passion on behalf of making raw milk available to every person in NJ who wishes to purchase it.
A bill before the Legislature would overturn the current ban, and require vendors to have a state permit when selling it. This hearing was the first of several hearings on the subject of raw milk. Since there is usually only 5 days notice before a hearing, keep an eye out for Foodshed Alliance alerts regarding the next hearing or check back often at this website.
The sale of raw milk will be highly regulated if legalized. The committee said it would review the regulations of New York and Pennsylvania. There are only 111 dairy farms left in NJ at the writing of this. .
We'd like to thank Chairman Nelson Albano and the committee for their patience and candor as they listened for hours to our testimony. We are also grateful to Assemblyman John DiMaio for picking up the bill and Senator Karrow for all the energy she has put into this issue. For every person who spoke on behalf of this issue, thank you for taking your personal time to make this bill a reality!! I had a boss who used to ask us, "Who rules the world?" His response was, "The people who show up!"
-Jen Reich, co-director, Foodshed Alliance
Who is Garden State Raw Milk?
We are a grass-roots group of consumers, farmers, scientists, health professionals, and non-profit organizations, working together to create legal
access to raw milk in New Jersey. GSRM is a project of the Foodshed Alliance.
Please join us!
Please take a look at our brochure and feel free
to print it and share it with others.
Download the brochure (PDF, 163K).
How Can You Help? See the sidebar on the right and:
The first successful hearing of our bill was on May 11, 2009.
We still need YOUR SUPPORT to make raw milk a reality in NJ!!!
The public may also address comments and questions to Lucinda Tiajoloff, Committee Aide at 609-292-7676,
fax 609-292-0561,
or e-mail: OLSAideAAN@njleg.org.
If you want legal raw milk in NJ, here is how you can help make this happen::
- Senator Karrow introduced our bill to the NJ Assembly while she served in the Assembly, Asemblyman John DiMaio is now our bill sponsor in the Assembly .
- Spread the word that we have a bill that will make raw milk sales legal again.
- Download and sign our petition!
- Write or call the 5 Agricutural and Natural Resource Committee members and tell them why you support this bill. (Fisher, Alban, Amodeo, Conaway, & Karrow).
- Call your own legislators (for talking points, click here) and tell them that you want legal raw milk sales in NJ and you want them to support this bill
- Remember, letter writing is very powerful- write your legislators, regular mail is best, but phone calls and email are good too! Your legislators need to hear from YOU!!!
- To contact your legislators, log onto:
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/members/legsearch.asp
Download the bill (PDF, 46K)
