Healthy and happy life through a proper diet

Dear Mr. Aajonus,
I would like to first thank you for your suffering, tenacity, work, experimentation and love of a good healthy and happy life through a proper diet.
Secondly, I'd like to thank you for my wife's miraculous and speedy recovery from a 15 yr. battle with a debilitating I.B.S. [irritable bowel syndrome] condition. After spending thousands & thousands of dollars on doctors, tests, supplements, gas, time etc., in one day we noticed a
difference on your diet. She was taking a variety of laxatives in the amount of 66 capsules and tablets A DAY just to facilitate a bowel movement.
After faithfully doing your diet she kept backing off the supplements and within a little over a month was completely off them. Our kitchen cabinets were literally full of this stuff and are now empty. She is not totally healed yet as she still struggles at times with dry blockage, but she is 90% betterthanks to you and your research.
I'm totally grateful to you for her health back again. Her skin looks smoother, softer and her eyes brighter.
Thank you Mr. Aajonus, thank you!
Thirdly: after seeing the tremendous results in her in just a couple of weeks, I started to try it [the Primal Diet] too, but only just eating raw meats & fatty avocados, tomatoes, etc. about 3 days a week. I also have been doing the moisturizing drink twice a day now for about 3 months. BOY OH BOY! I had had arthritis hitting my hands and shoulders really bad!
I couldn't bend the thumb on my left hand at all. It was spreading to the rest of my fingers in the same hand & starting in my right hand. Mr. Aajonus, I couldn't even clap my hands without their hurting - or even shake hands. Within a little over a week my thumb started to bend again. Within 3 weeks most of the soreness was gone & within a month & a half, I could bend my
thumb completely without any soreness.
It also left my shoulders too! I used to drink a lot of gelatin & eat a lot of homemade jelly - but it didn't help!
raw butter - 3 tablespoons
2 free range eggs - raw
2 tablespoons fresh squeezed lemon
1 heaping tablesppon of unheated honey
1 banana for pain
Blend it & voila!
Another note: I had a bad case of "allergic dermatitus eczema" on my hands, arms and very heavily all over my scalp. My easy chair looked like it had just snowed each time I got up, from the dandruff. I feel because of the moisturizing drink and raw foods being the help I needed - it is all but gone - 90+ %.
My calloused skin is as smooth as a baby's in only a couple of months.
Thank you again!
I haven't completely switched over yet - although my wife has. I drink veggie juice now, raw milk, fresh squeezed orange juice an eat raw meats at least 3 days a week. My wife is full time on your diet including lotions and even tooth paste - God, I admire her tenacity and will power.
Well sir, just thought you might like to hear about this. We look forward to the new 'shopping list' and one day to perhaps get to meet the great Mr. Aajonus V...
One last note. I'm a commercial artist of 38 years and need my hands to do my work. I'm 58 years old. My wife is a nationally certified personal trainer of some 12 years and is 44 yrs. old. We love our health & we thank you personally for better health through a better diet - the Primal Diet!
Many thanks & God be with you, Rick & Kelly B.

Dietary Quest for Health...

...Leads to the Primal Diet:
By age twenty-four, I had developed a painful hemorrhagic colon fissure requiring surgery. By age thirty, I had developed a bleeding duodenal ulcer that was 'treated' for three years. Both conditions were ultimately resolved by dietary means. During my fifty+ year quest to de-mystify and unravel the elusive secrets of optimal health, I attended many dozens of health
lectures/seminars. Each of them gave clues, but never the complete answer. I was inspired by, but still unsatisfied with health lectures, so for reference, I began to purchase, read, and slowly build a small library of seventy-five+ books. All were alleged to improve one's health. Some of them were in fact so far off-course that I later threw them away. To further expand my knowledge base on health and other important protocols, while holding a full-time job
with Southern Company Services, Inc., I attended UAB [University of Alabama at Birmingham] Regional Technical Institute night classes. In the final phases, I did all-night hospital rotations before working a full eight hour shift the same day, finally graduating as a state-licensed EMT [emergency medical technician] paramedic in 1976. Afterwards, I worked and continued my training at my own expense, alongside City of Birmingham's Fire Department Rescue
Services 'FireMedics,' maintaining my license for approximately 11 years. Why do I bore you with the above? Easy:
1) to establish some semblance of credibility, and
2) so that you won't waste your precious time and energy following the same meandering paths that I did in your mission to secure information necessary to provide for your own OPTIMAL health. Optimal health CANNOT come from potentially LETHAL drugs that can kill in all but the tiniest of dosages. Medications do not cure; they merely MASK the symptom(s), often
requiring progressively ever-larger dosages with their concomitant side effects and complications. Over time, I reluctantly came to the conclusion that what we've been taught about health is not always true, but instead is often predicated on centuries-old, false, even dangerous, postulations and/or on multitudinous conflicts of interest(s). All too often, such 'postulations' can be traced to profit motives. Clearly, there is certainly nothing wrong
with making a profit, so long it doesn't cost you your health, or even your LIFE in the 'bargain.' In an article appearing in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, it was actually divulged that iatrogenic medicine (mistakes made by doctors and medical personnel in hospital environments) is responsible for more mortalities than by any other means! In the considered
opinion of an ever-expanding number of health researchers and practitioners, THAT is exactly what established, pharmaceutically-inspired, 'orthodox medicine' does. I now believe that orthodox medicine was largely responsible for the premature demise of one of our greatest American WWII Air Force heroes, Henry E."Red" Erwin, CMH [Congressional Medal of Honor]. Like ninety-nine percent of all physicians, your own MD is probably well-meaning and really wants you to get well, BUT he is far too busy to pursue alternative or complimentary medicine. He HAS to 'practice' medicine according to strict AMA protocols or risk censure and/or loss of his license to 'practice' medicine. Does your physician know who Professor Antoinne Bechamp (a
contemporary of Louis Pasteur), Royal Raymond Rife or Gaston Naessens, MD were/are? Highly unlikely. Key them in to your favorite search engine. These were/are men of vast accomplishments and genius who were unheralded GIANTS of their chosen professions. However, because they did not march in lock step with the prevailing dictums of their peers' professional societies, they were ignored, suppressed or even persecuted. Their so-called 'controversial' ideas, though now have been validated by time (my opinion), are still ignored by our pharmaceutically-driven 'orthodox' medical establishment today. It was not
until four years ago when I discovered two (2) pivotal, life-changing books,
i.e. We Want To Live and The Recipe For Living Without Disease by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Ph.D., did I finally discover the truth, the INSIDE story about optimal health. My health
has improved ever since. These two books belong in every home, to be read, and re-read, until their principles literally become instinctive. In summary, don't be bamboozled by the disengenuous 'smoke-and-mirrors' propaganda of the pharmaceutically-inspired medical establishment. Instead, please take the time to think for yourself. Hippocrates, called the father of medicine, is quoted as saying "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food". [Doctors are sworn in saying this as part of the Hippocratic oath. I asked one once and she said yes, she was sworn in saying that but food was more nutritious in Hippocrites' day. the editor]
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, in his major work Phyusiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante: "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are." Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach wrote "man is what he eats" which got switched around in popular vernacular to "You ARE what you eat." Food IS your best medicine. I don't know who said that first but I am saying it now. There is only one disease: MALNUTRITION. Investigate the two most important health-conserving textbooks of the 21st century.

Health alert regarding children's health

The following health alert came to us from Gary Holmes, a concerned citizen. It gives a thorough view of a threat about which Aajonus has warned us many times. Aajonus has told subscribers to his newsletters briefly what to do about it.

Deadly Immunity=NO Vaccinations for me!

Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Gary Holmes

The following is a link concerning acidic vaccines
and their link to autism and other neurological disease.
This link and article was uncovered by using the Freedom
of Information Act request, by John F. Kennedy Jr.
My hope is when you read this article it will be
enough to really motivate you to rally against the
powers that be who blatantly hide the truth about
the toxic acidic effects of ALL vaccines (this includes
the latest vaccine for HPV called Gardasil which has
injured over 9000 and killed 27 young women in the last
6 months) that jeopardize the health and well-being of every child across our country and the world! Please write your
congressman or congresswoman today and ask to put an
end to ALL mandatory toxic acidic vaccines.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, “vaccinations are all
acidic and toxic to the body and provide no true immunity.
True immunity is found in a person who is maintaining the
alkaline design of their body fluids at 7.365 or better
with an alkaline lifestyle and diet!”

http://groups.google.com/group/misc.kids.pregnancy/msg/4847350dae3bb353?

Uncovered via the FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT reported
by ROBERT F KENNEDY JR

Deadly Immunity

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. investigates the government
cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal

By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.

In June 2000, a group of top government scientists
and health officials gathered for a meeting at the
isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross,
Georgia. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist
retreat center, nestled in wooded farmland next to
the Chattahoochee River, to ensure complete secrecy.
The agency had issued no public announcement of the
session — only private invitations to fifty-two
attendees. There were high-level officials from the
CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, the top
vaccine specialist from the World Health Organization
in Geneva and representatives of every major vaccine
manufacturer, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth
and Aventis Pasteur. All of the scientific data under
discussion, CDC officials repeatedly reminded the
participants, was strictly “embargoed.” There would
be no making photocopies of documents, no taking
papers with them when they left.

The federal officials and industry representatives
had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that
raised alarming questions about the safety of a host
of common childhood vaccines administered to infants
and young children. According to a CDC epidemiologist
named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency’s
massive database containing the medical records of
100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the
vaccines — thimerosal — appeared to be responsible
for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other
neurological disorders among children. “I was actually
stunned by what I saw,” Verstraeten told those assembled
at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier
studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and
speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity
and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA
had recommended that three additional vaccines laced
with the preservative be given to extremely young
infants — in one case, within hours of birth –
the estimated number of cases of autism had
increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500
children to one in 166 children.

Even for scientists and doctors accustomed to confronting
issues of life and death, the findings were frightening.
“You can play with this all you want,” Dr. Bill Weil,
a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics,
told the group. The results “are statistically
significant.” Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist
and pediatrician from the University of Colorado whose
grandson had been born early on the morning of the
meeting’sfirst day, was even more alarmed. “My gut
feeling?” he said. “Forgive this personal comment –
I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containing
vaccine until we know better what is going on.”

But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public
and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials
and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next
two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data.
According to transcripts obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act, many at the meeting were concerned
about how the damaging revelations about thimerosal
would affect the vaccine industry’s bottom line. “We
are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending
any lawsuits,” said Dr. Robert Brent, a pediatrician
at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware.
“This will be a resource to our very busy plaintiff
attorneys in this country.” Dr. Bob Chen, head of
vaccine safety for the CDC, expressed relief that
“given the sensitivity of the information, we have
been able to keep it out of the hands of, let’s say,
less responsible hands.” Dr. John Clements, vaccines
adviser at the World Health Organization, declared
flatly that the study “should not have been done at
all” and warned that the results “will be taken by
others and will be used in ways beyond the control of
this group. The research results have to be handled.”

In fact, the government has proved to be far more
adept at handling the damage than at protecting
children’s health. The CDC paid the Institute of
Medicine to conduct a new study to whitewash the
risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to “rule
out” the chemical’s link to autism. It withheld
Verstraeten’s findings, even though they had been
slated for immediate publication, and told other
scientists that his original data had been “lost”
and could not be replicated. And to thwart the
Freedom of Information Act, it handed its giant
database of vaccine records over to a private company,
declaring it off-limits to researchers. By the time
Verstraeten finally published his study in 2003,
he had gone to work for GlaxoSmithKline and reworked
his data to bury the link between thimerosal and
autism.

Vaccine manufacturers had already begun to phase
thimerosal out of injections given to American
infants — but they continued to sell off their
mercury-based supplies of vaccines until last year.
The CDC and FDA gave them a hand, buying up the tainted
vaccines for export to developing countries and
allowing drug companies to continue using the
preservative in some American vaccines — including
several pediatric flu shots as well as tetanus boosters
routinely given to eleven-year-olds.

The drug companies are also getting help from powerful
lawmakers in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Bill
Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from
the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to
immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200
lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured
children. On five separate occasions, Frist has tried
to seal all of the government’s vaccine-related
documents — including the Simpsonwood transcripts –
and shield Eli Lilly, the developer of thimerosal,
from subpoenas. In 2002, the day after Frist quietly
slipped a rider known as the “Eli Lilly Protection
Act” into a homeland security bill, the company
contributed $10,000 to his campaign and bought 5,000
copies of his book on bioterrorism. The measure was
repealed by Congress in 2003 — but earlier this year,
Frist slipped another provision into an anti-terrorism
bill that would deny compensation to children suffering
from vaccine-related brain disorders. “The lawsuits
are of such magnitude that they could put vaccine
producers out of business and limit our capacity to
deal with a biological attack by terrorists,” says
Andy Olsen, a legislative assistant to Frist.

Even many conservatives are shocked by the government’s
effort to cover up the dangers of thimerosal. Rep.
Dan Burton, a Republican from Indiana, oversaw a
three-year investigation of thimerosal after his
grandson was diagnosed with autism. “Thimerosal
used as a preservative in vaccines is directly
related to the autism epidemic,” his House Government
Reform Committee concluded in its final report.
“This epidemic in all probability may have been
prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep
at the switch regarding a lack of safety data
regarding injected thimerosal, a known neurotoxin.”
The FDA and other public-health agencies failed to
act, the committee added, out of “institutional
malfeasance for self protection” and “misplaced
protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.”

The story of how government health agencies colluded
with Big Pharma to hide the risks of thimerosal from
the public is a chilling case study of institutional
arrogance, power and greed. I was drawn into the
controversy only reluctantly. As an attorney and
environmentalist who has spent years working on
issues of mercury toxicity, I frequently met mothers
of autistic children who were absolutely convinced
that their kids had been injured by vaccines.
Privately, I was skeptical.

I doubted that autism could be blamed on a single source,
and I certainly understood the government’s need to
reassure parents that vaccinations are safe; the
eradication of deadly childhood diseases depends on
it. I tended to agree with skeptics like Rep. Henry
Waxman, a Democrat from California, who criticized
his colleagues on the House Government Reform Committee
for leaping to conclusions about autism and vaccinations.
“Why should we scare people about immunization,” Waxman
pointed out at one hearing, “until we know the facts?”

It was only after reading the Simpsonwood transcripts,
studying the leading scientific research and talking
with many of the nation’s pre-eminent authorities on
mercury that I became convinced that the link between
thimerosal and the epidemic of childhood neurological
disorders is real. Five of my own children are members
of the Thimerosal Generation — those born between
1989 and 2003 — who received heavy doses of mercury
from vaccines. “The elementary grades are overwhelmed
with children who have symptoms of neurological or
immune-system damage,” Patti White, a school nurse,
told the House Government Reform Committee in 1999.
“Vaccines are supposed to be making us healthier;
however, in twenty-five years of nursing I have never
seen so many damaged, sick kids. Something very,
very wrong is happening to our children.”

More than 500,000 kids currently suffer from autism,
and pediatricians diagnose more than 40,000 new cases
every year. The disease was unknown until 1943, when
it was identified and diagnosed among eleven children
born in the months after thimerosal was first added
to baby vaccines in 1931.

Some skeptics dispute that the rise in autism is
caused by thimerosal-tainted vaccinations. They
argue that the increase is a result of better
diagnosis — a theory that seems questionable
at best, given that most of the new cases of autism
are clustered within a single generation of children.
“If the epidemic is truly an artifact of poor
diagnosis,” scoffs Dr. Boyd Haley, one of the
world’s authorities on mercury toxicity, “then where
are all the twenty-year-old autistics?” Other
researchers point out that Americans are exposed
to a greater cumulative “load” of mercury than
ever before, from contaminated fish to dental
fillings, and suggest that thimerosal in vaccines
may be only part of a much larger problem.
It’s a concern that certainly deserves far more
attention than it has received — but it overlooks
the fact that the mercury concentrations in
vaccines dwarf other sources of exposure to our
children.

What is most striking is the lengths to which many
of the leading detectives have gone to ignore –
and cover up — the evidence against thimerosal.
From the very beginning, the scientific case against
the mercury additive has been overwhelming. The
preservative, which is used to stem fungi and
bacterial growth in vaccines, contains ethylmercury,
a potent neurotoxin. Truckloads of studies have
shown that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains
of primates and other animals after they are injected
with vaccines — and that the developing brains of
infants are particularly susceptible. In 1977,
a Russian study found that adults exposed to much
lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those given
to American children still suffered brain damage years
later. Russia banned thimerosal from children’s
vaccines twenty years ago, and Denmark, Austria,
Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries
have since followed suit.

“You couldn’t even construct a study that shows
thimerosal is safe,” says Haley, who heads the
chemistry department at the University of Kentucky.
“It’s just too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal
into an animal, its brain will sicken. If you apply
it to living tissue, the cells die. If you put it
in a petri dish, the culture dies. Knowing these
things, it would be shocking if one could inject
it into an infant without causing damage.”

Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which
first developed thimerosal, knew from the start
that its product could cause damage — and even
death — in both animals and humans. In 1930, the
company tested thimerosal by administering it to
twenty-two patients with terminal meningitis, all
of whom died within weeks of being injected –
a fact Lilly didn’t bother to report in its study
declaring thimerosal safe. In 1935, researchers
at another vaccine manufacturer, Pittman-Moore,
warned Lilly that its claims about thimerosal’s
safety “did not check with ours.” Half the dogs
Pittman injected with thimerosal-based vaccines
became sick, leading researchers there to declare
the preservative “unsatisfactory as a serum intended
for use on dogs.”

In the decades that followed, the evidence against
thimerosal continued to mount. During the Second
World War, when the Department of Defense used the
preservative in vaccines on soldiers, it required
Lilly to label it “poison.” In 1967, a study in
Applied Microbiology found that thimerosal killed
mice when added to injected vaccines.

Four years later, Lilly’s own studies discerned that
thimerosal was “toxic to tissue cells” in concentrations
as low as one part per million — 100 times weaker
than the concentration in a typical vaccine. Even so,
the company continued to promote thimerosal as
“nontoxic” and also incorporated it into topical
disinfectants. In 1977, ten babies at a Toronto
hospital died when an antiseptic preserved with
thimerosal was dabbed onto their umbilical cords.

In 1982, the FDA proposed a ban on over-the-counter
products that contained thimerosal, and in 1991 the
agency considered banning it from animal vaccines.
But tragically, that same year, the CDC recommended
that infants be injected with a series of mercury-
laced vaccines. Newborns would be vaccinated for
hepatitis B within twenty-four hours of birth, and
two-month-old infants would be immunized for
haemophilus influenzae B and diphtheria-tetanus-
pertussis.

The drug industry knew the additional vaccines
posed a danger. The same year that the CDC approved
the new vaccines, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the
fathers of Merck’s vaccine programs, warned
the company that six-month-olds who were administered
the shots would suffer dangerous exposure to mercury.
He recommended that thimerosal be discontinued,
“especially when used on infants and children,”
noting that the industry knew of nontoxic
alternatives. “The best way to go,” he added,
“is to switch to dispensing the actual vaccines
without adding preservatives.”

For Merck and other drug companies, however, the
obstacle was money. Thimerosal enables the
pharmaceutical industry to package vaccines in
vials that contain multiple doses, which require
additional protection because they are more easily
contaminated by multiple needle entries.

The larger vials cost half as much to produce as
smaller, single-dose vials, making it cheaper for
international agencies to distribute them to
impoverished regions at risk of epidemics. Faced
with this “cost consideration,” Merck ignored
Hilleman’s warnings, and government officials
continued to push more and more thimerosal-based
vaccines for children. Before 1989, American
preschoolers received only three vaccinations –
for polio, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and
measles-mumps-rubella. A decade later, thanks
to federal recommendations, children were receiving
a total of twenty-two immunizations by the time
they reached first grade.

As the number of vaccines increased, the rate of
autism among children exploded. During the 1990s,
40 million children were injected with thimerosal-
based vaccines, receiving unprecedented levels of
mercury during a period critical for brain development.
Despite the well-documented dangers of thimerosal,
it appears that no one bothered to add up the cumulative
dose of mercury that children would receive from
the mandated vaccines. “What took the FDA so long
to do the calculations?” Peter Patriarca, director
of viral products for the agency, asked in an e-mail
to the CDC in 1999. “Why didn’t CDC and the advisory
bodies do these calculations when they rapidly
expanded the childhood immunization schedule?”

But by that time, the damage was done. Infants who
received all their vaccines, plus boosters, by the
age of six months were being injected with levels of
ethylmercury 187 times greater than the EPA’s limit
for daily exposure to methylmercury, a related
neurotoxin. Although the vaccine industry insists
that ethylmercury poses little danger because it
breaks down rapidly and is removed by the body, several
studies — including one published in April by the
National Institutes of Health — suggest that
ethylmercury is actually more toxic to developing
brains and stays in the brain longer than
methylmercury.

Officials responsible for childhood immunizations insist
that the additional vaccines were necessary to protect
infants from disease and that thimerosal is still
essential in developing nations, which, they often
claim, cannot afford the single-dose vials that
don’t require a preservative. Dr. Paul Offit, one
of CDC’s top vaccine advisers, told me, “I think if
we really have an influenza pandemic — and certainly we
will in the next twenty years, because we always do –
there’s no way on God’s earth that we immunize 280
million people with single-dose vials. There has to
be multidose vials.”

But while public-health officials may have been well-
intentioned, many of those on the CDC advisory committee
who backed the additional vaccines had close ties to
the industry. Dr. Sam Katz, the committee’s chair, was
a paid consultant for most of the major vaccine makers
and shares a patent on a measles vaccine with Merck,
which also manufactures the hepatitis B vaccine. Dr.
Neal Halsey, another committee member, worked as a
researcher for the vaccine companies and received
honoraria from Abbott Labs for his research on the
hepatitis B vaccine.

Indeed, in the tight circle of scientists who work on
vaccines, such conflicts of interest are common. Rep.
Burton says that the CDC “routinely allows scientists
with blatant conflicts of interest to serve on
intellectual advisory committees that make
recommendations on new vaccines,” even though they
have “interests in the products and companies for
which they are supposed to be providing unbiased
oversight.” The House Government Reform Committee
discovered that four of the eight CDC advisers who
approved guidelines for a rotavirus vaccine laced
with thimerosal “had financial ties to the
pharmaceutical companies that were developing
different versions of the vaccine.”

Offit, who shares a patent on the vaccine,
acknowledged to me that he “would make money” if
his vote to approve it eventually leads to a
marketable product. But he dismissed my suggestion
that a scientist’s direct financial stake in CDC
approval might bias his judgment. “It provides no
conflict for me,” he insists. “I have simply been
informed by the process, not corrupted by it. When
I sat around that table, my sole intent was trying
to make recommendations that best benefited the
children in this country. It’s offensive to say that
physicians and public-health people are in the pocket
of industry and thus are making decisions that they
know are unsafe for children. It’s just not the way
it works.”

Other vaccine scientists and regulators gave me
similar assurances. Like Offit, they view themselves
as enlightened guardians of children’s health, proud
of their “partnerships” with pharmaceutical companies,
immune to the seductions of personal profit, besieged
by irrational activists whose anti-vaccine campaigns
are endangering children’s health. They are often
resentful of questioning. “Science,” says Offit,
“is best left to scientists.”

Still, some government officials were alarmed by
the apparent conflicts of interest. In his e-mail to
CDC administrators in 1999, Paul Patriarca of the FDA
blasted federal regulators for failing to adequately
scrutinize the danger posed by the added baby
vaccines. “I’m not sure there will be an easy way out
of the potential perception that the FDA, CDC and
immunization-policy bodies may have been asleep at
the switch re: thimerosal until now,” Patriarca wrote.
The close ties between regulatory officials and the
pharmaceutical industry, he added, “will also raise
questions about various advisory bodies regarding
aggressive recommendations for use” of thimerosal
in child vaccines.

If federal regulators and government scientists
failed to grasp the potential risks of thimerosal
over the years, no one could claim ignorance after
the secret meeting at Simpsonwood. But rather than
conduct more studies to test the link to autism and
other forms of brain damage, the CDC placed politics
over science. The agency turned its database on
childhood vaccines — which had been developed largely
at taxpayer expense — over to a private agency,
America’s Health Insurance Plans, ensuring that it
could not be used for additional research. It also
instructed the Institute of Medicine, an advisory
organization that is part of the National Academy of
Sciences, to produce a study debunking the link
between thimerosal and brain disorders. The CDC
“wants us to declare, well, that these things are
pretty safe,” Dr. Marie McCormick, who chaired the
IOM’s Immunization Safety Review Committee, told her
fellow researchers when they first met in January 2001.
“We are not ever going to come down that [autism] is
a true side effect” of thimerosal exposure. According
to transcripts of the meeting, the committee’s chief
staffer, Kathleen Stratton, predicted that the IOM
would conclude that the evidence was “inadequate to
accept or reject a causal relation” between thimerosal
and autism. That, she added, was the result “Walt
wants” — a reference to Dr. Walter Orenstein, director
of the National Immunization Program for the CDC.

For those who had devoted their lives to promoting
vaccination, the revelations about thimerosal
threatened to undermine everything they had worked
for. “We’ve got a dragon by the tail here,” said Dr.
Michael Kaback, another committee member. “The more
negative that [our] presentation is, the less likely
people are to use vaccination, immunization — and we
know what the results of that will be. We are kind
of caught in a trap. How we work our way out of the
trap, I think is the charge.”

Even in public, federal officials made it clear that
their primary goal in studying thimerosal was to
dispel doubts about vaccines. “Four current studies
are taking place to rule out the proposed link
between autism and thimerosal,” Dr. Gordon Douglas,
then-director of strategic planning for vaccine research
at the National Institutes of Health, assured a
Princeton University gathering in May 2001. “In order
to undo the harmful effects of research claiming to
link the [measles] vaccine to an elevated risk of autism,
we need to conduct and publicize additional studies to
assure parents of safety.” Douglas formerly served as
president of vaccinations for Merck, where he ignored
warnings about thimerosal’s risks.

In May of last year, the Institute of Medicine issued
its final report. Its conclusion: There is no proven
link between autism and thimerosal in vaccines. Rather
than reviewing the large body of literature describing
the toxicity of thimerosal, the report relied on four
disastrously flawed epidemiological studies examining
European countries, where children received much smaller
doses of thimerosal than American kids. It also cited a
new version of the Verstraeten study, published in the
journal Pediatrics, that had been reworked to reduce
the link between thimerosal and autism. The new study
included children too young to have been diagnosed
with autism and overlooked others who showed signs
of the disease. The IOM declared the case closed and –
in a startling position for a scientific body –
recommended that no further research be conducted.

The report may have satisfied the CDC, but it convinced no
one! Rep. David Weldon, a Republican physician from
Florida who serves on the House Government Reform
Committee, attacked the Institute of Medicine, saying
it relied on a handful of studies that were “fatally
flawed” by “poor design” and failed to represent “all
the available scientific and medical research.” CDC
officials are not interested in an honest search for
the truth, Weldon told me, because “an association
between vaccines and autism would force them to admit
that their policies irreparably damaged thousands of
children. Who would want to make that conclusion
about themselves?”

Under pressure from congress, parents and a few of its
own panel members, the Institute of Medicine reluctantly
convened a second panel to review the findings of the
first. In February, the new panel, composed of
different scientists, criticized the earlier panel
for its lack of transparency and urged the CDC to
make its vaccine database available to the public.

So far, though, only two scientists have managed to
gain access. Dr. Mark Geier, president of the
Genetics Center of America, and his son, David,
spent a year battling to obtain the medical records
from the CDC. Since August 2002, when members of
Congress pressured the agency to turn over the data, the
Geiers have completed six studies that demonstrate a
powerful correlation between thimerosal and
neurological damage in children. One study, which
compares the cumulative dose of mercury received by
children born between 1981 and 1985 with those born
between 1990 and 1996, found a “very significant
relationship” between autism and vaccines. Another
study of educational performance found that kids who
received higher doses of thimerosal in vaccines were
nearly three times as likely to be diagnosed with
autism and more than three times as likely to suffer
from speech disorders and mental retardation. Another
soon-to-be published study shows that autism rates
are in decline following the recent elimination of
thimerosal from most vaccines.

As the federal government worked to prevent scientists
from studying vaccines, others have stepped in to study
the link to autism. In April, reporter Dan Olmsted of
UPI undertook one of the more interesting studies
himself. Searching for children who had not been
exposed to mercury in vaccines — the kind of population
that scientists typically use as a “control” in
experiments — Olmsted scoured the Amish of Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, who refuse to immunize their
infants. Given the national rate of autism, Olmsted
calculated that there should be 130 autistics among
the Amish. He found only four. One had been exposed
to high levels of mercury from a power plant. The other
three — including one child adopted from outside
the Amish community — had received their vaccines.

At the state level, many officials have also conducted
in-depth reviews of thimerosal. While the Institute
of Medicine was busy whitewashing the risks, the Iowa
legislature was carefully combing through all of the
available scientific and biological data. “After three
years of review, I became convinced there was sufficient
credible research to show a link between mercury and
the increased incidences in autism,” says state Sen.
Ken Veenstra, a Republican who oversaw the investigation.
“The fact that Iowa’s 700 percent increase in autism
began in the 1990s, right after more and more vaccines
were added to the children’s vaccine schedules, is solid
evidence alone.” Last year, Iowa became the first state
to ban mercury in vaccines, followed by California.
Similar bans are now under consideration in thirty-two
other states.

But instead of following suit, the FDA continues to
allow manufacturers to include thimerosal in scores
of over-the-counter medications as well as steroids
and injected collagen. Even more alarming, the
government continues to ship vaccines preserved
with thimerosal to developing countries — some of
which are now experiencing a sudden explosion in autism
rates. In China, where the disease was virtually unknown
prior to the introduction of thimerosal by U.S.
drug manufacturers in 1999, news reports indicate that
there are now more than 1.8 million autistics. Although
reliable numbers are hard to come by, autistic disorders
also appear to be soaring in India, Argentina, Nicaragua
and other developing countries that are now using
thimerosal-laced vaccines. The World Health
Organization continues to insist thimerosal is safe, but
it promises to keep the possibility that it is linked
to neurological disorders “under review.”

I devoted time to study this issue because I believe
that this is a moral crisis that must be addressed.
If, as the evidence suggests, our public-health
authorities knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical
industry to poison an entire generation of American
children, their actions arguably constitute one of
the biggest scandals in the annals of American
medicine. “The CDC is guilty of incompetence and
gross negligence,” says Mark Blaxill, vice president
of Safe Minds, a nonprofit organization concerned
about the role of mercury in medicines. “The damage
caused by vaccine exposure is massive. It’s bigger
than asbestos, bigger than tobacco, bigger than
anything you’ve ever seen.”

It’s hard to calculate the damage to our country –
and to the international efforts to eradicate epidemic
diseases — if Third World nations come to believe
that America’s most heralded foreign-aid initiative
is poisoning their children. It’s not difficult to
predict how this scenario will be interpreted by
America’s enemies abroad. The scientists and researchers –
many of them sincere, even idealistic — who are
participating in efforts to hide the science on
thimerosal claim that they are trying to advance the
lofty goal of protecting children in developing nations
from disease pandemics. They are badly misguided.
Their failure to come clean on thimerosal will
come back horribly to haunt our country and the
world’s poorest populations.

To learn more about the toxic acidic ingredients in
all vaccinations may I suggest reading, Sick and Tired,
and the technical essay, “A Second Thought About
Viruses, Vaccines and the HIV Hypothesis.”

http://www.phmiracleliving.com/c-25-books-dvds-audios.aspx

An one last thing. Do yourself a big favor that
will perserve your health and maybe save your life -
save NO to ALL vaccines, especially this years
flu vaccine!

Primal Diet goes international

Books of Aajonus Vonderplanitz are in kitchens and households in at least 17 countries outside of the USA. There is a strong international interest in the raw food diet; read about it here.

How to detox naturally

And Build Health With A Good Raw Food Diet. by Barbara Ellingson. The following has been borrowed from the www.wewant2live.com website, with the author's and webmaster's permission.
Building Health and Detoxing on a raw food diet are two things that can occur together, only because of how our bodies respond to raw food. This way of eating which we call the Primal Diet, could even be called "how to detox naturally". There is no question that these bodies of ours are trying to survive the onslaught of industrial, food, airborne, and other toxins (sometimes self-induced toxins if only in the form of excess food and drink), to remain alive and healthy and to function for a very long time!
But back to our subject of building health and detoxing: on the one hand, our bodies are nourished by the raw, unadulterated fats carbohydrates and proteins we eat. On the other hand the raw fats naturally bind with toxins and escort them safely out of the body. For example we have heard Aajonus Vonderplanitz say often, that taking a sugar cubed size chunk of raw unheated and unsalted cheese, encourages the body to dump toxins in to the stomach, which the cheese then "mops up". Then of course we follow this up about 10 minutes later with other good quality raw food, which nourishes us.
That could either be freshly juiced vegetables, or a meat meal, or a fruit smoothie, etc. One overlooked factor in all this is that it happens so gently on a raw food diet--relatively speaking, compared with other historical methods (whether they were/are effective or not) like leaching, cupping, fasting and more modern procedures like chemo-coctails, and other highly toxic drug compounds and in the other extreme, cleanses. There seems hardly a risk to the raw food regimen, since these foods can be so delicious to eat, and also easy to prepare. Please see the book called "The Recipe For Living Without Disease". There is also little to no risk when we consider that this type of raw food detox diet can be added to any ongoing health routine. Aajonus Vonderplanitz has often said that we shouldn't attempt to force or speed up a detox, since it happens well enough anyway. Evidently he has reserved speeding up a detox diet for a few brave and healthy souls like himself and close compatriots, who have been on the raw food diet for some time, and who might not mind some of the reactions! He even gives ways of slowing down a detox to avoid those reactions. Please refer to his book "We Want To Live". But to FEEL the results of good health that are available by eating the raw food detox diet, is a wonder in itself, when we consider that a state of good health is really our birthright, and is at the foundation of everything we do every day!

I love your newsletter

 Dear Aajonus,

I love your newsletter.  Thank you so much for writing your books and newsletters and for all the amazing things you do that help people.

Sincerely,

Bess

...all kinds of bacteria...

I saw him [Aajonus] on believe it or not last night....I did not realize that he eats putrified meats for health!....One year old raw meats with all kinds of bacteria and that is what cured him of lymphoma. He got cured from the Eskimos who gave it to him to recover initially. Interesting.
Linda H.

What affects California (CA) regarding raw milk will likely affect

by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
Hi, raw-milk lovers,

It has been a long haul in the halls of CA government but Organic
Pastures Dairy, Sally Fallon, Christine Chessen and many others worked
hard to get SB201 to successfully pass CA Assembly and Senate. Within
the next month, SB201 will have to be signed by Governor Schwarzenegger
or die. As I stated in previous emails, this bill is a temporary fix to
relieve the unwarranted regulations invoked by AB1735 which without
legitimate reasons raised the coliform standards to the extent that we were
deprived of raw cream and butter. If this bill is not signed,
Californians will likely lose raw dairy until our lawsuit opposing
AB1735 completes. That could take one year.
healthfully and appreciatively,
aajonus

We need everyone of you and your friends to CALL & FAX Governor
Schwarzenegger to sign SB 201:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-445-4633

Proposed letter to FAX:

Re:  SB201, please sign this Clean Raw Milk and Raw Dairy bill
Dear Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Raw dairy products are an integral part of my health and well-being. My
family, friends and I depend upon you to protect our health and
well-being by signing SB201 immediately. Thank you.
Sincerely,
(your name, address and (optional) phone
number)
If you are not a CA resident, please do not use your address or use
Right To Choose Healthy Food's address as yours; as a supporter, it is
your address)
POB 176
Santa Monica, CA  90406-0176

Cancer patient on the Primal Diet reports

This is to acquaint you with the recent trip to Mexico of the "in-progress" cancer patient (Barbara Ellingson) who is on the Aajonus Vonderplanitz Primal Diet--and in the absence of all medical treatment (no surgery, no chemo, no radiation). Things are once again going well! We show that all is holding steady. The spinal cancer which was far advanced 2 years ago upon diagnosis (per MRI and CT scan done at a local hospital) is showing reduction in some of the tumor sites on the spine, with some new growths on some other areas of the spine. From my understanding, this is consistent with the Aajonus Vonderplanitz' book called We Want To Live, (see index) and the fact that blood tests reveal that the tumor burden as a whole remains steady. In personal consulations with Aajonus, he has said from the get-go that it takes 2-4 years to begin to reverse this cancer.
2 years ago before the disease was first diagnosed (over Labor Day 2006), I was immobile for 3 days and had to be taken to the hospital on a stretcher in an ambulance in to their emergency room to find out what was wrong. When I was shown the MRI by the medical doctor (on his lap top computer) there were tumors, masses, lesions and damage everywhere on the spine. The cancer had largely taken over the sacrum, and was visible in the bone marrow.

I am now walking around (although slowly).
I FEEL BETTER! MORE ENERGY! (even despite the numerous "detoxification" symptoms.)

I am looking forward to a DETAILED report based on a comparison (film-to-film) of 2 MRI's a year and a half apart, that will be done in Mexico--soon, I am told. I will post that when I get it.

More information in detail is available earlier on the blog in November 2007, and also on the wewant2live.com website, namely my picture and poem, at the bottom of the home page.

True health depends on real and live food.

Throw out all other health books... as I did two years ago. Start today. Keep in mind that it takes years on this [raw food] diet to roll back all the abuses that your body had to endure on cooked diet and "dead" food. There's no time to waste "to be ready or not". I wish I had discovered earlier this guy. True health depends on real and live food. I recommend it to anybody. Even if you think you're healthy it would be wise to give this diet a second look.

Tirona, NYC

CANCER, FROM A SURVIVOR'S VIEWPOINT!

This is being written by a person with cancer

who has vital information to share based on successes with a raw food diet. Hello, I am Barbara Ellingson here, alive and kicking, on planet earth, 2008!

Over the fateful Labor Day Weekend in 2006, when I was transported on a stretcher in an ambulance because I had been unable to move for 3 days due to back pain, they did an MRI at the hospital and I got diagnosed with advanced spinal cancer.

My prospects were bleak in terms of cancer recovery—and I know because I got to see the MRI on the medical doctor's lap-top computer. That was the picture worth 1000 words. It certainly explained why I'd ended up immobile and in the hospital to begin with.

I called Aajonus Vonderplanitz PhD Nutrition, right away. I won't go in to how I had heard of him earlier, but suffice it to say I got started on his recommended raw food diet and herbs at that time. I could tell within a week that I was no longer being consumed—from the inside. The raw food diet was that calming, even before I started the herbs. (By the way, I am now walking around.)

My nutritionist zeroed in on 2 main factors that are common to holistic cancer treatments: detoxification and nutrition, but not as you will usually find— when you read his books, you will see. The herbs he recommended as being non-toxic were intended as a more aggressive treatment beyond the diet, so that I would not end up paralyzed due to spinal nerve damage as a result of the cancer.

So here I am still alive and doing well (all things considered) two weeks short of two years after cancer-diagnosis, with what the hospital doctors believe (in the absence of a biopsy) is most likely the multiple myeloma form of cancer. I had chosen not to have a biopsy done because we knew the tumors on my spine were malignant, and I did not want to risk spreading the disease. Since then I have chosen to receive no medical treatment for cancer at all: that is, no surgery, no radiation, no chemotherapy. The latest MRI and blood tests (one and a half years after the original tests) show essentially no spreading of the cancer since it was first discovered! I am just one example of living proof of a cancer treatment that is relatively gentle, and that really does hold a promise of full recovery down the line.

Note: at the bottom of the home page on the website is a picture of me strangling the cancer monster, and also a poem that I wrote and dedicated to my nutritionist. Then you will see that the 1^st five chapters of this author's first book are available to view on the website FOR FREE. Please get the flavor and concept of this and see what you think.

Also, the information you'll find about nutrition is also great for preventing illnesses of various kinds and for boosting good health—it's not only helpful with cancer. As we know, our good health is our most valuable commodity. It's easy to take it for granted, even though it really stands at the beginning of all that we embark upon every day in life!

primal diet - I haven't been this healthy since 6 or 7 years old

To Aajonus,
Like many others I also tried many different things to fix my problems. Antibiotics (though only when it got really bad), creams, oils, and finally I began an informal and slack elimination diet. I read about your raw food diet once or twice but didn't take to it until I did some more research on you and the primal diet. The more I read, the more it made sense and the more hope I had. Then I tried the diet and sure enough, immediate results. Apparently my body doesn't tolerate sugar/starches/grains very well. And as a result my skin would produce bacteria overload and thus infections. Well a year later and I eat a mostly raw diet and love it. I have more confidence because my face is not all marked up with quarter sized puffy infections and life is pretty good.

Ok so I did give my life story a bit, but I guess you can just toss this in to the bin with the rest! Mostly I just want to thank you for pioneering something that is so taboo. My family still thinks I'm crazy but I know the truth, and the proof is in the results. I haven't been this healthy probably since I was 6 or 7 years old, I'm now almost 22. If there's anything I can ever do for you, or you're in Minnesota and want a place to stay and get some good quality food, shoot me an email, I'd be honored. No need for a reply, I know you're a busy guy, thanks and keep up the awesome work!

Ryan B
Apple Valley, Minnesota

Primal Diet results in Athens, Greece

Hi Aajonus. My name is Juby and I am your biggest fan! No really!

I have never experienced anything with such fast and profound results [as the Primal Diet].

I got over the vegetarian evangelist things... started drinking raw milk again (I hadn't touched it for years) and have never felt better! Recently I read your book and just want to say... Thank you sir.. from the bottom of my heart, for all your hard work! You have had a massive affect on my life already.

Recently I opened my own body stress release practice in Athens, Greece. If you are interested please see www.bodystressrelease.co.za

Hernia, ibs, diabetes, seem to vanish

on a raw food diet:
'Hi Aajonus,

Early last year I was very ill; I was losing weight very rapidly and was not able to digest. I was diagnosed with IBS [irritable bowel syndrome] together with hietial hernia.

Also [I was] dehydrating at a very fast pace, diagnosed with a rare illness called Diabetes Insipidus.

In a nutshell I’ve tasted thirst and it is not good!

My friend heard that I was very ill and called me; she could not even recognize my voice.

When I said to her “What can I eat”! She began to read your books for me on the phone.

She realized I could not even read with enough concentration. Your diet began to make an impact on my body the moment.

I dragged myself out of bed and made the first smoothie of eggs and papaya. Ever since then my search for the raw food has been exciting to say the least.

For one thing, I was never able to drink pasteurized milk and now I drink gallons of raw milk.

I have been able to visit your conferences twice and had consultations at which time you have been able to help me tremendously.

I’m writing you this note to “Thank you” for not only myself but my husband who was diagnosed with prostate cancer and we both are doing very well,

Also to let you know we had a graduation party on the 22nd of June 08 for our younger son, among our guests was Conrad Mac Intire. He is a tennis coach for the City of Springfield MA and he had this comment to make in front of our guests:

“ Ydalmen, you look as you did 20 years ago, I told my wife you have to call her and ask what diet you’re on. You look terrific”.

Also in the spring my ophthalmologist measured my vision for new glasses, his comment was

“I’ve not seen any one improve their vision in a year like your vision”.'

Raw Milk in California - we are closer to our goal:

CA Assembly Ag and Health Committees
Pass SB 201 Unanimously

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Thanks in large part to your calls for support, The Fresh Milk Act of 2008 [read "raw milk"] achieved resounding success in two Assembly committee hearings last week. Members of both the Agriculture and Health committees commented repeatedly on the volume of calls they received in support of SB 201. Short You Tube coverage is provided.

It is highly rewarding to legislators when the public uses our political system in such a positive and passionate way.

Your Calls and Attendance Were Key to this Win

Let's keep it up!

SB 201 will most likely get some minor refinements before moving on to the Senate Appropriations Committee in a few weeks.

The pros and cons of the raw food diet...

A Primal Dieter (Barbara Ellingson) was interviewed on video last Sunday June 22nd, about successes with the Primal Diet in relation to "serious" health situations. The interviewer was a lady reporter called Gypsy, from the Bay area who has herself in the past written to Aajonus "to thank you for saving my life" (see her blog entry on November 17, 2007). Barbara points out that since she has cancer, it was of interest for Gypsy to see that she is doing well and holding steady, according to objective medical tests such as MRI, blood tests, ultra-sounds, etc.
Alyson Powell was also interviewed. In her career as a hairdresser, she has had to deal with much chemical toxicity. She is doing well on the Primal Diet and did an interesting interview.
Stay tuned to see if either of these interviews air on any TV stations in your area!

Raw milk - immediate action required:

Hi, raw-milk supporters!
We need your help! Please call all of the California Health Committee members today, all day, and tomorrow before noon. This bill is a temporary fix to keep raw milk on shelves until we can force the State to annul AB1735's coliform-count regulations that became law in January 2008.
If you do not live in California, please use Right To Choose Healthy Food's address, PO Box 176, Santa Monica, CA 90406.
Thank you!
healthfully,
aajonus [note: click here to see the full page]

17 PHONE CALLS Take 15 minutes now to help save CA raw milk! Phone calls are given "points" which are used by committee members to form opinions. 1) Say your Name and City 2) Request that Assembly Member SUPPORT SB 201 in tomorrow's Health Committee Hearing. Please pick up the phone and call these 17 Assembly Health Committee Members today!

Mervyn M. Dymally - Chair Dem-52 (916) 319-2052 Fax -319-2152 Assemblymember.dymally@assembly.ca.gov Mary Hayashi Dem-18 (916) 319-2018 Fax -319-2118 Assemblymember.Hayashi@assembly.ca.gov Alan Nakanishi - Vice Chair Rep-10 (916) 319-2010 Fax -319-2110 Assemblymember.nakanishi@assembly.ca.gov Edward P. Hernandez Dem-57 (916) 319-2057 Fax -319-2157 Assemblymember.Hernandez@assembly.ca.gov Patty Berg Dem-1 (916) 319-2001 Fax -319-2101 Assemblymember.berg@assembly.ca.gov Bob Huff Rep-60 (916) 319-2060 Fax -319-2160 Assemblymember.huff@assembly.ca.gov Wilmer Amina Carter Dem-62 (916) 319-2062 Fax -319-2162 Assemblymember.Carter@assembly.ca.gov Dave Jones Dem-9 (916) 319-2009 Fax -319-2109 Assemblymember.jones@assembly.ca.gov Hector De La Torre Dem-50 (916) 319-2050 Fax -319-2150 Assemblymember.DeLaTorre@assembly.ca.gov Sally J. Lieber Dem-22 (916) 319-2022 Fax -319-2122 Assemblywoman.lieber@assembly.ca.gov Kevin de Leon Dem-45 (916) 319-2045 Fax -319-2145 Assemblymember.deLeon@assembly.ca.gov Fiona Ma Dem-12 (916) 319-2012 Fax -319-2112 Assemblymember.Ma@assembly.ca.gov Bill Emmerson Rep-63 (916) 319-2063 Fax -319-2163 Assemblymember.emmerson@assembly.ca.gov Mary Salas Dem-79 (916) 319-2079 Fax -319-2179 Assemblymember.Salas@assembly.ca.gov Ted Gaines Rep-4 (916) 319-2004 Fax -319-2104 Assemblymember.Gaines@assembly.ca.gov Audra Strickland Rep-37 (916) 319-2037 Fax -319-2137 Assemblymember.strickland@assembly.ca.gov Loni Hancock Dem-14 (916) 319-2014 Fax -319-2114 Assemblymember.hancock@assembly.ca.gov THANK YOU EVERYONE! Please attend the hearing on June 24th

Southern California residents interested in health...

should note that there is a current exhibit called Body Worlds 3. It shows inner body workings for those of us who have wondered what does it look like inside our physical bodies. You can get an overview of what this is about by clicking on the link here: http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/Exhibits/Weingart/BodyWorlds_3/BodyWorlds_3.php

The stated idea for this exhibit is that viewers can gain profound insights in to the structure and function of healthy and unhealthy bodies on a comprehensive scales. It is meant to inspire people to take better control of their lives and bodies and of course their own health.

It might be worth while for anyone to see this exhibit.

Raw Milk discussion lead by a California Senator

Raw Milk is under discussion in this footage about "The Fresh Raw Milk Act"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5FoFoFNeCk&feature=email
Aajonus is sitting to the right of Ron Hull but his talk is not covered in this you tube footage.
He says "I did not speak about the scientific aspects because there were 4 there to do that. I spoke on an empirical basis about getting well [with the raw food diet] and thousands of people who did not get well. Also, I spoke about the issue that bacteria are never pathogenic but that food additives were. No one wants to hear or accept that."
When he receives the latest version of the bill (possibly next Monday) he may comment further.

Raw Milk Is The Only

Healthy Milk; Why Has It Been Outlawed?

by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Nutritional Scientist/Nutritionist/ Author and Retired Raw Dairy Farmer Carlet Hoff

There is too little known among the general public about the benefits of raw milk, even though raw milk was the foster mother of mankind. Controversial seems to be a week adjective when considering the vehement rhetoric of individuals who lash out against it from miseducation and fear. The bacteria-phobia has no empirical base. There has been no clinical tests studying people drinking raw milk, that contains feared bacteria, to prove or disprove the theory that pathogens finding their way into raw milk can cause ill effects in humans drinking it. Even vegetative nutrients found in raw milk have been falsely blamed for ill effects. The crusade against raw milk has been lethal to the empirical evidence that raw milk and raw milk products are probably the most nutritious food most people can consume.

Pasteurizing milk, which is the process of cooking milk at a minimum 155 degrees F. for at least 15 seconds, gained popularity when farmers didn't have the technology to produce, package and deliver all their raw milk fresh. Pasteurization LENGTHENED the SHELF LIFE of milk. Suddenly, farmers were able to hold and transport their milk instead of dumping it or feeding it to the hogs. Until then the primary focus of milk was that it was a healthful food. With pasteurization, milk became a commodity, an economic issue, that generated Hollywood-like unscientific horror stories about raw milk spreading diseases.

For years health-minded individuals, teachers, professors, politicians and even doctors fought the battle against pasteurization of milk because of the obvious weakening effects it had on humans and animals who were fed pasteurized milk. The destruction of the nutritional properties was evident in the results. Early in the battle, several countries outlawed the feeding of pasteurized milk to infants. Not only does pasteurization destroy the major proportion of vitamins, enzymes and minerals, it creates contaminants, such as transitional lipid oxides and protein toxins. Pasteurized milk cannot maintain the biological antibodies and enzymes present in raw milk, some of which can prevent a large variety of diseases, including cancer. See the complete article at http://www.rawmilk.org/ (article).

(c) Right to Choose Healthy Food. All Rights Reserved.

Have we opened the gates for a Trojan Horse regarding raw milk?

"AB201 as amended on June 16, yesterday, is a disastrous Trojan Horse. Please, do not give it any support, yet. I called Sally Fallon this morning about the Trojan Horse bill and she had Mark McAfee call me. He said that the wording has changed since last night. I told him that I would absolutely oppose it unless major changes were made. He promised to send the changes to me asap."
healthfully,
aajonus

To our blog readers, the following is the UNamended bill for your viewing. Many raw milk supporters have evidently been tricked into supporting this, even though it would have serious repercussions throughout the USA and the world. Please check this blog regularly for the next few days until the changes have been viewed and considered against the big picture i.e. what this means for the USA and the world.

SB201: Fresh Milk Act of 2008 - The Details

Senator Dean Florez said it best when he held hearings on Farm Fresh Milk in April of this year. He said we want "World Class Raw Milk for California." SB 201, sponsored by Senator Florez, Senator Perata and Assemblymember Berryhill accomplishes just that.

SB 201 starts its abbreviated journey through the legislative process this week. With six hours of Senate hearings and testimony from experts from around the world, the Senate record on raw milk is strong. Because of the tremendous amount of work by Senator Dean Florez, Senator Don Perata, Assemblyman Mike Villines, Assemblywoman Nicole Parra, Assemblyman Tom Berryhill, Whole Foods President Walter Robb, Sally Fallon, Dr. Ron Hull, Dr. Ted Beals and many others, this world class Raw Milk bill has gathered broad political support.

SB 201 pioneers standards and regulatory protections that are the first in the nation, are holistic in addressing every critical process in the dairy, and provide greater protections for consumers than the standards currently in law. It promotes consumer choice in California by keeping raw milk available on store shelves, while at the same time increasing food safety protections to ensure that the raw milk sold in California is the safest in the nation.

For the first time in the United States, SB 201 mandates a HACCP (food safety) plan at California's raw milk dairies. This type of individualized food safety plan is presently utilized by food processors in other industries in California, and was deemed to be the best alternative to promote raw milk food safety by scientists at our recent hearing.

SB 201 provides for at least eight times more testing for E. Coli 0157:H7, standard plate count, and coliforms as each raw milk dairy is required to provide an independent lab product samples at least twice per week. There is presently no such requirement in California law. In the past, CDFA has performed simple tests that were used as indicators that harmful pathogens may be present. SB 201 instead requires the CDFA to test directly for the pathogens that cause illness in humans at least once per month. CDFA may take raw milk samples from any location deemed appropriate. Testing directly for pathogens provides a more accurate picture of what is contained in the final product.

Finally, this bill prohibits raw milk dairies from receiving milk from other dairies that do not meet these stringent requirements.

These innovative food safety measures, when taken in their entirety, provide multiple layers of protection to our consumers, ensuring that California continues to be the leader in raw milk food safety.

Kieba from the big island of Hawaii

presents raw food diet books, raw food diet recipes and events:
Retro-Raw my new books Aajonus is mentioned several times and referenced. My books are now out for sale.....1 for the adults and 1 for the kids ! (recipes, my story, exercise programs in each and more....the kidz one is so cute, basic and easy, they can make the stuff themselves).

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RAW MILK SITUATION IN PENNSYLVANIA UPDATE AND ACTION ALERT

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. — Thomas Jefferson.
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Once generally supportive of raw milk, Pennsylvania authorities have been making life very difficult for raw milk farmers and consumers during the last few weeks. This email will provide you with details about what has been going on and describe an action plan. As what happens in Pennsylvania affects the raw milk situation throughout the country, we are sending it out to all members. We ask that you PLEASE READ THIS ALERT CAREFULLY and ALL join us in carrying out the actions proposed. (We apologize for the length, but it is necessary to provide you with all the facts and a careful explanation of what is going on.) Also, please forward this alert to your own email groups.
RAID ON MARK NOLT'S FARM
"All truth passes through three stages," wrote Schopenhauer. "First it is ignored, then it is violently opposed and finally it is accepted as self evident." Unfortunately the transition from the first to the second stage has fallen on a gentle Pennsylvania Mennonite raw milk farmer, Mark Nolt, described by many as the "Rosa Parks of farmers' rights." On April 25, Mark's farm was raided--for the second time--and this time he was arrested, in connection with five citations for selling raw milk without a license. He was taken in handcuffs to a magistrate in Mount Holly Springs where he refused to make a plea to the criminal charges against him. A trial has been scheduled for May 5.
The first raid occurred last August 10, when the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) seized over $25,000 worth of product, packaging equipment and supplies. This occurred after a Commonwealth Court found Nolt in contempt for violating an injunction prohibiting him from selling raw milk and raw milk products without a permit.
In the second raid, the agents descended on the quiet farm, "like Vikings," according to Mark, in six police cars and at least five unmarked cars, presumably belonging to PDA officials. The agents were personally led by Bill Chirdon, Director of PDA's Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services. Mark tried asking one policeman what the state's authority was for being on the property but the policeman kept cutting him off, seemingly trying to provoke a confrontation. The police threatened to arrest anyone who attempted to set foot on Nolt's property; even Nolt's father and brother who live on the same lane were denied access.
Imagine the position of Mrs. Nolt, enduring the sight of her husband carried away in the back seat of a police cruiser. The officers refused to tell her where they were taking him. Then she and her ten children had to stand by once again while the officers went through their cheese shop and store, taking food meant to feed many families, including their own. Fortunately, Mark was released after the hearing, and he returned to the farm on foot rather than accept a ride in a police car.
In a supreme act of arrogance, Chirdon stole a book off Nolt's shelf-"All I Ever Wanted to Do is Illegal" by Joel Salatin. According to a PDA spokesman, Chirdon will return the book at Mark's trial.
Mark let his permit drop several years ago because it did not allow him to sell value-added products such as butter and cream. Mark's position is that he has a constitutional right to enter into contractual agreements without a permit, that is to sell raw milk and raw milk products directly to customers.
Mark told David Gumpert that the product PDA confiscated (mostly cheese) was worth over $30,000. They also took supplies and equipment. PDA agents were particularly malicious, taking valves, parts to a cream separator and pieces of cheese-making equipment so his equipment could no longer be used. The warrant PDA received from the magistrate states that PDA could search and seize "any equipment, containers or supplies used to bottle or package for sale milk and products manufactured from milk." Obviously cream separator parts and cheese-making equipment have nothing to do with bottling or packaging products, thus making PDA guilty of an illegal seizure.
At a time when millions of people all over the world are starving, PDA has no qualms about throwing away perfectly good and nutritious food-the cheese was carried away in an unrefrigerated truck. According to the PDA website highlighting PDA's Blueprint for Hunger, "nearly 1.2 million Pennsylvanians, almost 10% of our population, live in households at risk for hunger and about 335,000, almost 3% of all households, have someone who has experienced hunger." The dumping of Mark Nolt's cheese in the face of widespread hunger in the state of Pennsylvania can only be described as obscene.
Even the legality of the product seizure can be called into question. According to PDA's Guidance Document (3/20/08, "Permits Allowing the Sale of Raw Milk for Human Consumption"), the department can seize raw milk, "Whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Department, a given supply of raw milk or illegally produced raw milk products is considered unsafe or a menace to public health, the secretary may seize, condemn, denature, or destroy the milk or milk products, without compensation to the owner of the milk or milk products." In the affidavit submitted in his application for a search warrant against Nolt, Chirdon made no allegation that the milk was unsafe. No one from PDA has provided evidence that Nolt's milk was a danger to the public. NO ILLNESSES HAVE BEEN REPORTED from the consumption of Mark Nolt's cheese.
In an appearance April 30 before a magistrate at the Newville Magisterial District Court, Mark Nolt was informed by the judge that he was facing two additional charges for selling raw milk without a permit. A trial has been scheduled for Monday, June 3 in Newville.
Nolt refused to enter a plea to the charges claiming he was in court under duress and that he was not subject to the court's jurisdiction. The court entered a plea of "not guilty" on his behalf.
Nolt's May 5 trial at the Mount Holly Springs Magisterial District Court will take place at 9:30 a.m. He is being tried in that case for five citations of selling raw milk without a permit. A rally in support of Nolt will be held outside the courthouse that morning.
TRIAL FOR GLEN WISE
Glen Wise has a dairy in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. He is a member of CARE (Communities Alliance for Responsible Eco-Farming) , a private milk club that sells only to members. According to the citations he has received, he is accused of selling "milk, milk products or manufactured dairy products" on three separate occasions.
Apparently, PDA found out that Glen was selling raw milk without a permit at a farmers' market last fall. Chirdon told him at that time that he needed to fill out an application for a permit, but Glen never did. (More about Chirdon below.) He heard nothing more from PDA until April 2 when he received the three citations all at once. All the citations against him were for selling at his farm store.
HARASSMENT OF PERMITTED RAW MILK FARMERS
While PDA insists that all raw milk farmers must have permits, the agency is making it very difficult for those farmers who already have permits or wish to obtain them. Its scheme is to use inappropriate testing techniques that give false positives, then suspend permits and issue inflammatory press releases, in what appears to be an effort to stem the ever growing number of raw milk permits-from just a few dozen to over 100 in the last two years. We also have reports that PDA is now making it very difficult for farmers to obtain new raw milk permits. The attitude is distinctly hostile, as the following cases will demonstrate. As one farmer put it, "The raw milk permit is just a license to be harassed." It is important to emphasize that in spite of PDA's reports of pathogens, NO ILLNESSES HAVE BEEN REPORTED in the cases cited below.
1.The farm of Clark and Elaine Duncan tested positive for Listeria Monocytogenes on April 4 and PDA ran a press release naming the farm on April 7. The milk sample had been taken on March 31. The Duncans sent a sample to a private lab the week following their suspension and that came back positive as well. They have not sent any samples for testing since. The PDA Guidance Document on raw milk states that the permit holder must refrain from selling raw milk until two consecutive tests taken at least one day apart show that the milk is pathogen free and the department approves of the tests that were taken. It is normally the permit holder's responsibility to send the samples to a state-approved lab for testing. The Duncans did not receive the paperwork from PDA on the test results until several weeks after the department issued the press release about the farm's positive listeria test.
2. On April 4, PDA told Arnold and Esther Diller of Piney Ridge Farm in Western Pennsylvania that their raw milk sales were being suspended because their milk tested positive for listeria. Arnold Diller subsequently sent out a sample to an independent lab, which came back negative (the same thing happened last year). As a condition for resuming sales on their farm, their inspector gave them a list of things to be done for reinspection. After repeatedly being unable to clean a piece of milking equipment to the satisfaction of the inspector, the Dillers turned in their license to PDA. Esther Diller said that she wished they had never obtained the license.
Not long after their sales were suspended, the Dillers were told by a state employee from Harrisburg that if they voluntarily gave up their raw milk license, their problems with the state would be all cleared up. There is a State Representative who got raw milk from the Dillers. The night before PDA issued the press release about the Dillers' positive test for listeria, PDA faxed a copy of the press release to that representative. It seemed like an attempt to discourage the representative from remaining a customer. The Dillers also had some of their customers picking up milk at a local health food store. Shortly before the positive listeria tests in both 2007 and 2008, a Pennsylvania food and safety inspector witnessed the raw milk in a walk-in cooler and voiced disapproval even though there is no law prohibiting what was being done. We have no proof that this was related to the positive listeria test, but it does seem that PDA wanted the Dillers out of the raw milk business. Many people who depended on them for raw milk are now without a supplier. (There are very few permitted raw milk farmers in Western Pennsylvania. )
3. On Monday, April 21 a preliminary test for permit holder Norman Sauder came up positive for salmonella. The inspector had told him that even though he was not due for his next test until December, he was being asked to move it up to April. Norman sent a sample to the US Food & Dairy lab and it also came back positive for salmonella. On April 28, PDA issued a press release stating that anyone who purchased milk from Sauder after March 31 should discard it immediately. To this date Sauder has still not been directly informed by PDA whether the final test results for salmonella were positive.
He said his coliform counts all winter had been slightly elevated--sometimes 150. After he asked the inspector whether it was possible for a sample to be contaminated between his farm and the lab, his coliform count came back at 10 for the next four inspections. Sauder believes that sampling tools or lab equipment could be playing a role in the slightly elevated counts. He suspects that he is not getting accurate tests.
4. The Amos B. King Dairy in Blain sells most of its milk to Dairy Farmers of America for processing but distributes about 30 gallons of raw milk a week to his own customers. Amos' milk was tested on April 14 and the results came back positive for campylobacter on Friday April 18. After cleaning his equipment, Amos asked for a reinspection to be scheduled for April 21 or 22. Even though PDA told him that shouldn't be a problem, the inspector did not arrive until April 28. Meanwhile, the news of his positive test for campylobacter hit the press. Amos estimates he will not be cleared to resume raw milk sales before May 10 at the earliest.
5. The most egregious example of biased PDA policy involves the Beulah Land Jersey Farm, owned by Dennis and Joanne Wenger. The Wengers sell milk for pasteurization to Dairylea and also have a raw milk permit. On April 8, both US Dairy (a state-approved independent lab) and PDA took samples from the bulk tank. The next day, the milk hauler for Dairylea picked up milk. On April 11, PDA informed the Wengers that their test was "presumptive positive" for listeria and requested they discontinue selling raw milk. Additionally, the PDA test results showed a somatic cell count (SCC) of over one million. On April 14, the PDA called to say that the test had confirmed "positive" for listeria and that they would have to discontinue raw milk sales. By this time the Wengers had received the results from both US Dairy and Dairylea showing SCC under 200,000. The Wengers faxed copies of these test results to PDA.
On April 15, 16 and 17 MicroBac (another state-approved independent lab) came to the farm to take samples from the bulk tank for listeria testing. On April 16, Dennis called Senators Mike Brubaker and Mike Folmer to inform them about the large discrepancy in somatic cell counts between PDA's test results and those of US Dairy and Dairylea. Later that day, Dennis received a call from Bill Chirdon of PDA. After some discussion, Chirdon offered to retest the Beulah Land Jersey Farm milk. The next day, on April 17, the state came to take samples (the SCC test results for this sample were considerably lower than the first PDA test but still much higher than those obtained by the other two labs).
On Saturday, April 19, the Wengers received the test results from the first sample taken by MicroBac-negative for listeria. On the following Monday, the state lab made a highly unusual call to MicroBac to find out the results of the Wenger's samples. MicroBac refused to release the information without the Wenger's consent. The state then called the Wengers to inform them that their sample was negative. This was followed by a call from MicroBac saying that the second and third samples had also tested negative. PDA reinstated the Wenger's raw milk permit on April 22.
This incident creates the strong suspicion that PDA is not being honest about their test results, or that their testing techniques are not accurate and are giving false positives. In fact, this incident and the others above create a strong suspicion that the PDA is not taking milk samples properly and may even be tampering with them. Dennis has demanded an apology from PDA for its actions.
ABOUT PDA'S TESTING PROCEDURES
PDA uses the same testing methods for raw and pasteurized milk. They get preliminary results using the VIDAS 30 rapid testing system. If the preliminary results are positive, such as for listeria, the agency then uses a culturing technique intended to suppress the growth of anything in the culture other than listeria. This is a fair test if the milk is pasteurized because pasteurized milk is a dead food with no good bacteria to out-compete pathogens. Australian Microbiologist Ron Hull, PhD, has carried out tests showing that in raw milk, the threat of listeria goes away with time because good bacteria gradually increase and eventually render listeria harmless. Raw milk is not the same product as pasteurized milk; so it is neither fair nor good science to use the same testing protocol for raw and pasteurized milk.
Comparing raw milk to pasteurized milk is comparing a fresh product with a cooked product. For this reason there should be zero tolerance for pasteurized milk but not for raw milk, because raw milk contains good bacteria present to overwhelm any listeria present. What's needed are studies to quantify how high the infectious dose would have to be before it would cause illness in humans that consume the product. USDA publishes a universal infectious dose for a particular pathogen even though they acknowledge that it is unlikely to be the same in all foods. The agency has never conducted studies to determine what the infectious dose for pathogens would be in fresh raw milk intended for human consumption.
The current zero tolerance standard for listeria in raw milk is not appropriate because, as the experience in Pennsylvania has shown, people are consuming raw milk that has tested positive for listeria and are not getting sick. As the press releases in these cases admit, "NO ILLNESSES HAVE BEEN REPORTED . . . ." The standard is causing economic hardship for raw milk producers and supply interruptions for consumers. The fact that PDA did not until recently pull raw milk when the first test was positive shows a fundamental acceptance of this concept-that the tolerance levels for listeria and other pathogens in raw milk is not zero.
Furthermore, state regulators are operating under the mistaken belief that milk right out of the teat is sterile so that all bacteria found in milk comes from environmental contamination. We now know that raw milk-in humans as well as animals-contains bacteria from the milk ducts and surfaces of the teat, so these bacteria are a natural and beneficial component of the milk and not a result of contamination. (The exception is milk from a cow with mastitis, which is an infection in the udder itself.) The regulators' goal of getting rid of all bacteria is hazardous to human health because bacteria aids in digestion and immunity; and good bacteria are needed to protect against pathogenic bacteria.
Current research has produced enough evidence that the Pennsylvania Legislature should be convinced that raw milk and pasteurized milk are two different products requiring different testing and safety standards for each. The two should not be treated the same in terms of regulatory policy.
THE BILL CHIRDON ERA
The hostile attitude against raw milk farmers began when Bill Chirdon took over as Director of PDA's Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services in the fall of 2006. Chirdon formerly worked five years as a plant manager for Dean Foods, one of the nation's largest industrial dairy companies, and 20 years as a plant manager for Hershey. Obviously he is totally unqualified to be in charge of raw milk regulation. With his industry background, he has absolutely no understanding of raw milk nor sympathy for the position of raw milk farmers and consumers.
Before Chirdon took over, PDA would not suspend a farm's sales of raw milk for pathogens until there had been two positive tests. Now PDA is suspending sales and issuing harmful press releases after one positive test.
Before Chirdon, PDA viewed labor contracts between raw milk licensees and consumers as legal. Under the labor contracts, the farmer would process the raw milk the consumer had purchased into other dairy products such as cream, butter, yogurt or kefir. Under Chirdon, PDA considers the labor contracts illegal.
PDA used to test raw milk licensees once a year for pathogens. Now it tests twice.
Since Chirdon, it has become standard practice for undercover PDA employees to buy from unlicensed dairy producers in an effort to trap farmers into getting cited for selling raw milk without a permit. PDA employees made at least eight purchases from Mark Nolt and another three from Glen Wise. (It is important to remind CARE farmers not to sell to any customers unless they show their membership cards; and it is noteworthy that PDA has not tried to stop private milk club arrangements such as CARE in over a year now.)
During Chirdon's tenure, PDA has issued press releases when farms tested positive for pathogens even though in almost all cases NO ILLNESSES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. (PDA asserts that some people got sick consuming milk from one dairy in 2007, although the dairy does not know of any customers that got sick.)
In March of this year Fisher's Dairy in Porterville tested positive for salmonella. Because of that positive test at that one farm, Chirdon required that all licensed dairies in the state send in raw milk samples. Since the statewide testing began, five other farms have had their raw milk sales suspended (three for listeria, one for campylobacter and one for salmonella),
Farmers seeking new raw milk permits are now reporting that the PDA is using pathogen testing to hinder and revoke raw milk permits. Of interest is the fact that there is not one reference to pathogen testing in the Milk Sanitation Law or the Pennsylvania Code, which PDA acknowledges supersedes their Raw Milk Permit Guidelines. PDA recently and arbitrarily changed the guidelines, requiring more pathogen tests and making it more difficult to obtain a permit. The authority of PDA to dictate the guidelines needs to be challenged.
ACTION TO TAKE - PENNSYLVANIA RESIDENTS
We can use this situation to accomplish a huge victory for raw milk if we ALL work together in creating a huge public outcry!
We are asking all Pennsylvania residents concerned about raw milk and farm freedom to set aside one quiet hour on Saturday May 3. Use this hour to compose a letter that you will send by regular mail to your state senator, state representative, the heads of the senate and house agriculture committees, Mr. Dennis Wolff, Secretary of Agriculture, and Governor Edward Rendell. A letter sent by regular mail carries much more clout than an email or fax, and now is the time to make our voices heard.
We then ask that you mail your six letters on Monday morning, May 5. (Optionally, you may also send your letters to local media.) We want our elected officials to receive an avalanche of mail on this subject on Raw Milk D-Day, May 6.
In your own words, write a brief testimonial about how raw milk has benefitted you and your family and then request the following:
1. The resignation of Bill Chirdon and his replacement with someone who is knowledgeable about the science and health benefits of raw milk. We must send a strong message to the other states that raw milk consumers will not tolerate department of agriculture hostility and bias against raw milk.
2. That PDA immediately return to their pre-Chirdon testing and permitting policies and cease the strong-arm tactics against Pennsylvania raw milk farmers.
3. That the Pennsylvania legislature hold hearings and immediately pass legislation allowing an exemption from licensing and regulation for farmers selling raw milk and raw milk products direct to consumers, whether it be at the farm, through delivery or at farmers' markets. (Farmers selling raw milk through stores could be subject to the pre-Chirdon testing and permitting policies.)
4. That PDA drop all charges against Mark Nolt and Glenn Wise or suspend charges pending hearings before the legislature regarding an exemption from licensing and regulation for raw milk producers selling direct to consumers.
5. That PDA immediately return all supplies and equipment seized from Mark Nolt's farm on April 25 (much of the equipment is old so the parts PDA took are not replaceable) and compensate him for the theft of his cheese.
For names and addresses of your state senators and representatives, go to http://www.legis. state.pa. us/index. cfm, where you can search your elected officials by zip code and county.
Ag & Rural Affairs - Senate Chairman
Hon. Michael W. Brubaker
Chairman, Ag & Rural Affairs
Senate Box 203036
Harrisburg, PA 17120-3036
Ag & Rural Affairs - House Chairman
Hon. Michael K. Hanna
Chairman, Ag & Rural Affairs
302 Main Capitol Building
PO Box 202076
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2076
Mr. Dennis C. Wolff
Secretary, Department of Agriculture
2301 N. Cameron St.
Harrisburg, PA 17110
Governor Edward G. Rendell
225 Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120
ACTION TO TAKE - NON-PENNSYLVANIA RESIDENTS
Please also spend one quiet hour on Saturday May 5 composing your letter along the guidelines given above. On May 6, Raw Milk D-Day, email or fax your letter to the following:
Ag & Rural Affairs - Senate Chairman
Hon. Michael W. Brubaker
Chairman, Ag & Rural Affairs
mbrubaker@pasen. gov
(717) 787-4420
FAX: (717) 783-3156
Ag & Rural Affairs - House Chairman
Hon. Michael K. Hanna
Chairman, Ag & Rural Affairs
mhanna@pahouse. net
(717)772-2283
FAX: (717) 787-4137
Governor Edward G. Rendell
Phone: (717) 787-2500
Fax: (717) 772-8284
http://sites. state.pa. us/PA_Exec/ Governor/ govmail.html
Secretary Dennis Wolff
Phone: (717) 772-2853
Fax: (717) 705-8402
DWOLFF@STATE. PA.US
EXTRA CREDIT FOR RESIDENTS AND NON-RESIDENTS OF PENNSYLVANIA
Fax and email your letter to all the members of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs committees
SENATE COMMITTEE
Chairman, Hon. Michael Brubaker mbrubaker@pasen. gov (717) 787-4420 FAX:(717) 783-3156
Michael Waugh mwaugh@pasen. gov (717) 787-3817 FAX: (717) 783-1900
Michael O'Pake opake@pasenate. com((717) 787-8925 FAX: (717) 772-0578
Joseph Scarnati jscarnati@pasen. gov (717) 787-7084 FAX: (717) 772-2755
Michael Eichelberger jeichelberger@ pasen.gov( 717) 787-5490 FAX: (717)783-5192
Mike Folmer mfolmer@pasen. gov 717) 787-5708 FAX: (717) 787-3455
Roger Madigan rmadigan@pasen. gov (717) 787-3280 FAX: (717) 772-0575
Terry Punt tpunt@pasen. gov (717) 787-4651 FAX: (717) 772-2753
Shirley Kitchen kitchen@pasen. gov (717) 787-6735 FAX: (717) 772-0581
Sean Logan slogan@pasen. gov (717) 787-5580 FAX: (717) 772-3588
John Wozniak wozniak@pasenate. com (717) 787-5400 FAX: (717) 772-0573
HOUSE COMMITTEE
Honorable Michael Hanna, Chairman mhanna@pahouse. net (717)772-2283 FAX: (717) 787-4137
Gary Haluska hhaluska@pahouse. net (717) 787-3532 FAX: (717)783-7548
Mike Carroll mcarroll@pahouse. net (717) 787-3589 FAX: (717) 780-4763
Mark Cohen mcoen@pahouse. net (717) 787-4117 FAX: (717) 787-6650
H. Scott Conklin sconklin@pahouse. net (717) 787-9473 FAX: (717) 780-4764
Peter Daley pdaley@pahouse. net (717) 783-9333 FAX: (717) 783-7558
Richard Grucela rgrucela@pahouse. net (717) 705-1878 FAX: (717) 783-3180
Harold James hjames@pahouse. net (717) 787-9477 FAX: (717) 787-7517
Babette Josephs bjosephs@pahouse. net (717) 787-8529 FAX: (717) 787-5066
Tim Mahoney tmahoney@pahouse. net (717) 772-2174 FAX: (717) 780-4786
John Myers jmyers@pahouse. net (717) 787-3181 FAX: (717) 772-4038
Frank Louis Oliver foliver@pahouse. net, arucker@pahouse. net (717) 787-3480 FAX: (717) 783-0684
Timothy J. Solobay tsolobay@pahouse. net (717) 787-1188 FAX: (717) 705-1887
Tom Yewcic tyewcic@pahouse. net (717) 783-0248 FAX: (717) 787-4922
Rosita C. Youngblood ryoungbl@pahouse. net (717) 787-7727 FAX: (717) 772-1313
Art Hershey ahershey@pahousegop .com (717) 783-6435 FAX: (717) 705-1868
Bob Bastian bbastian@pahousegop .com (717) 783-8756 FAX: (717) 783-3899
Mike Fleck mfleck@pahousegop. com (717) 787-3335 FAX: (717) 260-6504
Karen Boback kboback@pahousegop. com (717) 787-1117 FAX: (717) 705-1889
Michele Brooks mbrooks@pahousegop. com (717) 783-5008 FAX: (717) 705-1948
Jim Cox jcox@pahousegop. com (717) 772-2435 FAX: (717) 260-6516
Gordon Denlinger gdenling@pahousegop .com (717) 787-3531 FAX: (717) 705-1951
David S. Hickernell dhickern@pahousegop .com (717) 783-2076 FAX: (717) 705-1946
Rob Kauffman rkauffma@pahousegop .com (717) 705-2004 FAX: (717) 705-1951
Mark Keller mkeller@pahousegop. com (717) 783-1593 FAX: (717) 705-7012
David Millard dmillard@pahousegop .com (717) 783-1102 FAX: (717) 772-0094
Dan Moul dmoul@pahousegop. com (717) 783-5217 FAX: Fax: (717) 334-8426
Tina Pickett tpickett@pahousegop .com (717) 783-8238 FAX: (717) 705-1949

OTHER EVENTS - WE NEED YOU THERE!
May 5: Hearing and Rally for Mark Nolt
9:30 am
229 Mill Street
Mount Holly, Pennsylvania 17065
May 6: Trial of Glen Wise
Magisterial District Court
920 South Spruce Street
Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
WRITE A LETTER AND WRITE A CHECK!
To support the Nolts in this time of hardship, you may send donations directly to
Mark and Maryann Nolt
P.O. Box 136
Blain, Pennsylvania 17006
The Farm-to-Consumer Foundation provides compassionate relief funds to farmers who have endured a farm raid or other urgent financial hardship related to their direct-to-consumer sales. Donations to the Farm-to-Consumer Foundation are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

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