October 2007 Archives

This message was posted on a mailing list I belong to. It's interesting; I think I agree overall that the law discussed is bad legislation and should be overturned, and yet I found myself getting increasingly annoyed with the author. So! Many!! Exclamation!!! Points!!!!

If they're trying to reach people who don't know about raw milk and aren't sure why they should care, I'm not sure they're going to succeed by sounding like they're a wee bit insane. (I resisted making a mad cow disease joke here because it's not funny. But believe me, I was tempted.)

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GOVERNMENT "SNEAK ATTACK"
ON CALIFORNIA RAW MILK

Dear Chapter Leaders and Members,

With raw milk politics facing tough battles and having some wonderful
successes across the United States, raw milk has just been dealt a
serious blow and has been made illegal
in California as of January 1st 2008.

We need you to act today.

I have included a letter from Mark McAfee below. We need you to write to
California legislators, write letters to the editor of your local paper
if you are in California, post about this issue on your blog, and
contact everyone in your chapter and in your friendship network to
mobilize them in this fight.

Read Mark's letter below or visit the Organic Pastures action page
directly:

DEAR RAW MILK FRIENDS,

There comes a time in life when conscious people must fight... ....this
is one of those rare times!!

The Governor of California just signed into law AB1735 which changes raw
milk standards to include "less than 10 coliforms per ml of raw milk".
This will eliminate a consistent supply of raw milk in California,
because high quality raw milk always has some Coliforms. In fact
Coliforms are essential to the safety of raw milk. They are responsible
for making Colicins which protect against and kill off harmful
pathogenic forms of bacteria including Ecoli 0157H7. Never before has
raw milk in California ever been tested for Coliforms, because they are
good bacteria and are not pathogenic.

All raw milk pathogens are tested separately to assure safety.

Sadly, the reality is that the Governor probably did not even know what
he was signing because it was slipped into the regulation without
discussion or debate. When he finds out what he signed he will ask for a
"CDFA head on a silver plate" I am sure. That's right. There were no
open discussion or hearings on this change. No raw milk consumer or raw
milk producer was advised or invited to attend the secreted meetings.
The staff at the State Ag Committee now says that AB1735 was not
supposed to be an area of conflict. It was just law to align California
Raw Milk laws with Federal Raw Milk laws.

To any raw milk producer or consumer this is WAR!!
The CDFA and FDA hate raw milk!!!

Only the government and pasteurized GOT DEAD MILK policy makers were
involved in AB 1735 and of coarse there was no discussion. This was a
"strategic sneak attack"... to get rid of the looming raw milk threat to
the GOT DEAD MILK industry.

We now ask that you all please shower the Governor with emails and
letters. Do not blame him but ask him to correct a horrible mistake
immediately. We ask that you call your state assemblyman. We ask that
you write your local newspaper. We ask that you blog. We ask that super
moms and dads morph into raw milk ninja fighters and protect your
families. The internet and your voices are your greatest tools. But they
must be heard. Tell everyone about how raw milk has changed your life.

Demand that the "eight new words introduced by AB 1735" that effectively
kill California Raw Milk be immediately removed!

There is more to this story, in September of 2006, during the height of
the huge Ecoli 0157H7 spinach outbreak that sickened 197 and killed 3,
CDFA mandated a recall of organic raw milk in California. After seven
days of press drama, raw milk famine, fanfare, thousands of tests
(including fresh manure from all cows and all milk products) and
extensive research, neither the FDA, CDFA or DHS could link any illness
to raw milk. The kids supposedly sickened did not even have matching
pathogen tests linking them as a group! There were only two sick kids
and they did not share the same pathogens. There were never four sick
kids as advertised. Suffice it to say there was great government
embarrassment and liability after the true facts were collected and
exposed.

In the end, the government official statement said that "there was no
connection between raw milk and any illnesses" (Fresno Bee front page
CDFA statement reference).

CDFA then settled with OPDC for a large cash settlement payment and a
mutual release of liability in exchange for not being sued for the
"false recall". OPDC signed this settlement several months ago.

AB1735 is "CDFA Payback" for this settlement embarrassment and the
"false recall". This sneak attack was because CDFA knows full well that
they do not have the political support or the science to address raw
milk consumers or producers to their faces.

We need your help to save raw milk in California. The entire raw milk
movement is being attacked when raw milk is attacked in California or
any place. You the consumer is being attacked and being denied your
right to chose living whole foods.

It is time to fight for your health and your lives, because that is
exactly what is on the line. Sterilized and preserved food brings on
immune depression, allergies and illness. Antibiotics then make it all
that much worse. 80 percent of the human immune system is made up of
bacteria in our gut. When they die we die!! We need good bacteria badly.
The crisis in MRSA and VRE infections are directly associated with weak
immune systems and antibiotic abuse. Most all chronic diseases and
immune depression are healed by whole bio-diverse and enzyme rich
foods....raw milk. Raw milk is at least 800 times more biologically
diverse than even good yogurt.

Please go to www.organicpastures.com for specific directions on what to
do and who to call. Addresses, contact information and legislative
representative names are available here:

http://www.organicpastures.com/ab1735_landing.html

High on our priority is our Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the
Secretary of Agriculture A.G Kawamura, and all the state legislators.

This a raw milk health revolution....do not let it be our generation
that lost this fight. We owe it too ourselves and our children to win
this and place these GOT DEAD MILK protectors on notice that this is a
democracy and due process and representation still matters. Sneak
Attacks will not be tolerated by the raw milk consumers or producers of
California or our nation.

You are requested to attend a rally and press conference at 1130 at the
Fresno Farmers Market at Shaw and Blackstone avenues on Saturday October
27th. I will be speaking to the press and they need to hear your voices
loud and clear. We expect a huge turn out and we need everybody that can
come. Raw milk will be on sale for all that come. Movie stars are
invited...Arnold needs to hear from you.

Try your best to attend the rally wear a shirt that supports raw milk
and your right to eat whole living foods!

Stand now and be counted!!! See you in Fresno at the Farmers Market on
Saturday.

Only living milk brings life!!

Mark McAfee
Founder OPDC
1-877 RAW MILK
http://www.organicpastures.com

"When you are right you can not be too radical, when you are wrong you
can not be too conservative". MLK.

Raw Milk and Living Foods are Right!!

I saw this perfect, star-shaped hole in this leaf today.

This has to be the scummiest. Or one of them.

Hello

We are giving hope to millions of children who are missing good health,food and education, who needs your help to survive.

UNICEF depends entirely on voluntary contributions for all our work. You can make a difference for children by donation or purchase UNICEF cards and gifts.

But this message calls for your voluntry assistance to act as one of our agent in your state to receive material and financial donations made to Unicef by people within your region.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
If you are willing to partner with us in this humanitarian program, you will furnish us with your personal data to enable us acredit you as our agent.

It might interest you to know that you will be paid for your humble service eventhough your service will not affect your present job in any way.

We will always send a notification email to you whenever there is a donation within your region. All you have to do is to check your email at the end of every day to know if there is any material or financial donation notification within your region.

And when there is donation, We will always furnish you with the information of our office or charity organisation where you will send the donation and how you will send it. You stand to benefit 10% of any financial donation you received on our behalf, and in case of a material donation, we will access the value of the material and also pay you 10% equivalent.

Due to our current program running in surport of Refugees, Motherless babies and HIV/AIDS children in Africa, we have so many outstanding donors but few agents. So if you are willing to contribute to the work of humanity through this medium, kindly get back to us immediately with your personal data for more explaination.

Yours sincerely,
Unicef Management
www.unicef.org

Forwarded today on our neighborhood list...

from Charles Pine's ORPN site:

Well Dressed "Rat Pack" Attacks Bystander

An Oakland resident reports, "Today (Oct. 19, 2007) around noon a group of about 15 teenagers mugged a young woman, knocking her down and stealing her purse. This occurred at the corner of 40th St. and Piedmont Ave. A bystander pursued them, at which point they turned and (essentially) attempted to murder him by gang beating him. They got away. They were described as very well dressed, like Nation of Islam or private school. Police arrived after the fact and did their jobs as best they could, but wouldn't it be nice if an officer was close enough to have been on the spot?"

It's mind-boggling that somebody could get attacked in broad daylight on such a busy intersection on our neighborhood like this.

It's a brilliant tactic, though. Even if there had been a beat cop in the area, how could he/she/they take on 15 people?

People really don't want to vote for Hillary Clinton.

I'll vote for her if she gets the nomination... but I think her nomination would be a big mistake because so many people have made up their minds about her already.

I really wish Barak Obama or John Edwards would clinch it instead.

The Republican candidates are all so vile, and the Republicans so, so, so deserve to go down in flames in 2008 — we really can't afford to mess this one up.

This is a slightly new, slightly amusing, twist...

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THE PRESIDENCY
Aso Rock villa, Asokoro District, Abuja
Direct Security Line 234-808-342-2181
Email: genpeterolucbn2000@i12.com

CONFIDENTIAL DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY PAYMENT

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am General Peter Olu (Rtd), National Special Adviser to President Aihaji Umar Musa Yaradua Federal Republic of Nigeria I am delighted to inform you that the contract panel, which just concluded it’s seating in Abuja just released your name amongst contractors to benefit from the Diplomatic Immunity Payment. This Panel was primarily delegated to investigate manipulated contract claims, contracts and over-invoiced payment as the effect has eaten deep into the economy of our dear country.

However, we wish to bring to your notice that your contract profile is still reflecting in our central computer as unpaid contractor while auditing was going on. Your contract file was forwarded to my office by the auditors as unclaimed fund, we wish to use this medium to inform you that for the time being Federal Government of Nigeria have stopped further payment through bank to bank transfer due to contractors numerous petitions to United Nations against Nigeria on wrong payment and diversion of contract funds to different account.

In this regards we are going to send your contract part payment of 4.1Million USD.To you via our accredited shipping company and I have secured every needed documents to cover the money. Note: The money is coming on 2 security proof boxes. The boxes are sealed with synthetic nylon seal and padded with machine.

Please you don't have to worry for anything, as the transaction is 100% risk free. The boxes are coming with a Diplomatic agent who will accompany the boxes to your house address. All you need to do now is to send to me your full house address and your identity such as, international Passport or drivers license and your mobile phone and telephone number, The Diplomatic Attachй will travel with it. He will call you immediately he arrives your country's airport. I hope you understand me.

Note: The diplomat does not know the original contents of the boxes. What l declared to them as the contents is Sensitive Photographic Film Materials for security reasons. I did not declare money to them please. If they call you and ask you the contents please tell them the same thing Ok. Call me on my direct phone (234-808-342-2181) email: (genpeterolucbn2000@i12.com) and I will let you know how far I have gone with the arrangement. I will secure the Diplomatic immunity clearance certificate, which will make it pass every custom checkpoint all over the world without hitch. Confirm the receipt of this message and send the requirements to me immediately you receive this message. Please I need urgent reply because the boxes are schedule to live as soon as we hear from you. Call me immediately.

Congratulations.

Best Regards,
General Peter Olu (Rtd).
National Security Adviser to the President
Federal Republic of Nigeria

So President Bush decided that it made good politics to deprive low-income children of health insurance.

As you can imagine, I do not share this opinion.

Here are a couple of web graphics I whipped up for the occasion. Feel free to use! No babies were harmed in the making of these images. (Click for larger versions)

Andy Samberg (Berkeley High represent!) and Adam Levine sing a love song to Iran's President Ahmadinejad... too funny.