AB 1735: What Others Have to Say

• "At the grocery store yesterday I was asked for my attention to a political issue. Not outside from the people with clipboards, but from my milk. That is because we buy real, raw, grass fed milk. And the stuff is the subject of much controversy...."

• "More and more dairies are going by the wayside across the country due to pressure from lobbyists from big money dairy factory farms. We can't let this happen in California, where raw milk has always been legal and available in stores..."

• Raw milk may soon be toast: scroll down and read what Jim Burket has to say about it.

• Central Valley Business Times: -Effective Jan. 1, 2008,the state-s two bottlers of raw milk will have to conform to the stricter standards, equal to those imposed on pasteurized milk, the CDFA says.-

• Fresno Bee-s Dennis Pollock: "This new law will limit the sale of perfectly healthy, pathogen-free milk," McAfee said. He called the legislation "a sneak attack on raw milk."

• The state of California has perpetrated yet another disturbing assault on our rights to consume whole foods. From Local Forage.

• Brian Bernbaum at SF Weekly Blogs writes: -Needless to say, the 40,000 or so raw milk buyers in California, along with several dairies, are pretty pissed off about it and intend to fight for repeal.-

• -Will raw milk soon be banned in California?-, asks Dr. Joseph Mercola.

• -This bill is an egregious intrusion into my food choices,- says Jason Kwong in the Sacramento Bee.

• -I am able to digest raw milk without problems. my skin is clear, and my general health and strength, I believe, are improving, says Tiffanie Pope at Wide World of Tif

• and Food-A-File

• -We've been fighting the wrong enemy for far too long. Tell the California Legislature to wise up and defend, not destroy, our access to whole foods,- says Michael Feiner in the Times Argus.

• Nina Planck says: -This law does not protect you. It protects industrial milk-.-

• David Gumpert reports on Mark McAfee-s meeting in Sacramento.

• Richard Morris writes: -The big government food Mafia is at it again. You remember the last time we reported on Organic Pastures Dairy. They were being harassed by the local Department of Agriculture.- At the San Francisco Chronicle, Carol Ness says -Raw milk, as precious as mother's milk to about 40,000 California consumers, is likely to be tougher to find on store shelves come January because of a state law that the Legislature passed quietly this month.-

• At The Complete Patient, David Gumpert says -It-s going to take an outpouring of opposition to change things around in California.-

• Amanda Rose at Rebuild from Depression says -The bill is politically crazy because it was passed without the consultation of raw milk consumers. It is scientifically crazy as well--

• -As much as government officials would like to have you believe otherwise, the fact is that properly produced and handled raw milk from properly fed cows is not a dangerous food-.- says Randy Jonsson at Raw Milk Facts

• At Through the Cooking Glass, Brian Glass says -The anti-raw-milk busy-bodies are at it again.-

• -I know! Let-s redefine milk,- Dragon Lady perhaps said to herself. Then she called a few politicians-.- Amanda Rose at The Ethicurean.

• -I hate to cast the assault on Organic Pastures Dairy Co. and nutritional rights in California in terms of warfare. But what else can you do?- asks David Gumpert at The Complete Patient.

• -Some serious deception has just taken place in the California Assembly says Maggie at Mouthful of Soil

• -It is amazingly twisted thinking to take a natural product, define it as dangerous, and therefore make it illegal,- says Linda Diane Feldt.

• Kate writes, -You know how they say "happy cows come from California"? Happy cows live at OPDC. I've seen them-.-

• Lihn Nguyen writes, -I'm outraged that someone would have so much time to target a small group of consumers and producers, instead of focusing on improving public health at large.-

• All the way from Australia, Joanne Hay directs people to the OPDC website.

• As do Chad

• and Nancy Deville.

• -Concerned citizens and true believers need to band together now to protest this outrage,- says Jaye Drummond at Healing Headquarters.

• Annette Hall writes, -The governor of California and his henchmen have just legislated away our right to drink raw milk.-

• Frankie gives a report on the Saturday press conference and rally.

• David Gumpert writes -Interesting coincidence that this release wasn-t issued until the day the media, including a number of blogs, come out with stories about the new standards.-

• More from David Gumpert:

As I said in my previous post, the authorities want to get us all engaged in sifting through their new rules and figuring out whether our dairies can -make it,-rather than asking the larger question of why they-re suddenly putting the screws to dairies that are safely cranking out raw milk for 40,000 or more Californians each day.

Watch for articles posted at:

Joseph Mercola-s Vital Votes

David Gumpert-s The Complete Patient

The Ethicurean

Amanda Rose-s Rebuild from Depression

back to top