Raw Milk In The News
Sponsors of New Jersey Raw Milk Bill Start Over
from Food Safey News, January 17, 2012
Got (Raw) Milk? NJ's Suprising Split Over Pasteurization
Local coverage of the Senate Committee Hearing on December 12, 2011
NJ Star Ledger Video about NJ Consumers purchasing raw milk at Birchwood Farm in PA
Raw Milk Drinking Returns, Should It? May 2011
Good article by Fox News - take the survey at the end
Raw Milk the Key for NJ Farmers
(Letter to the Editor by Joseph Heckman)
New Jersey and raw milk: perfect together, February 2011
Article by Tamara Scully in Country Folks, summarizing the 2-10-11 Assembly Committe hearing and affirmative vote
NJ Secretary of Agriculture Fisher working to halt dairy exodus from state
(We believe that legal sales of raw milk can help turn this exodus around)
Minnesota citizens hold a press conference on raw milk, January 2011
(Watch their testimonies as they work to make their raw milk laws more liberal)
F.D.A and Dairy Industry Spar Over Testing of Milk, NY Times, January 2011
(Article discusses antibiotic residues that may remain in conventional milk products)
DAIRY VOLUNTARILY RECALLS (Pasteurized) MILK SOLD IN NORTHERN NJ
(Thankfully no illnesses were reported from this September 2010 incident)
Disturbing Reality of Dairyland, ABC News, April 2010
(find out where some conventional milk and cheese may be coming from)
Raw Milk Sales Could Reinvigorate U.S. Dairy Farms, November 2009
Report in the New York Times featuring New Jersey Dairy Farms
Debate Grows Over Raw Milk, USA Today, October 2009
New Jersey bill would allow sale of raw milk, MSN News, May 2009
Trafficking in Raw Milk, MSN Lifestyle News, March 2009
(find out what lengths some people go to to get raw milk)
New Jersey Farmer Editorial, May 2008
Time Magazine: Raw Milk Straight from the Cow, May 2008
California and Pennsylvania Legal Battles covered by David Gump
MSNBC news: Demand for Raw Milk Growing Despite Dangers, April 2008
Rutgers University Daily Targum covers McAfee Seminar, February 2008
Princeton Packet Story on Raw Milk, January 2008
Rebuttal to FDA slide show re: raw milk
What's old is new again! Read the fascinating story of the last farmer to legally sell raw milk in NJ:
I fought the system and won, published in the Mother Earth News
Other webpages of interest:
- Video clip of an ABC news story on raw milk: http://www.realmilk.com/abc-news-raw-milk-story.htm.
- Acres USA interviewed Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures in January 2007. Read "The Right to Raw Milk. "
- USA today published a chart of raw milk's legal status in all 50 states. See the chart.
- Ohio is making strides in its campaign and now has legal cow-sharing: http://home.woh.rr.com/billkrisjohnson/Kris/raw_milk_issues_in_ohio.htm.
- Florida is actively pursuing legalization of raw milk sales for human consumption. It is currently legal to sell raw milk for pet food use in Florida. Visit www.f-a-r-m.org.
- This is a link to an inspirational article about natural farming, from Japan: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/337/
Let us know if you have any information to share!
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Raw cow or goat milk - it will be your choice!
