Raw milk consumers, please take action

"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
-- Judge Gideon J. Tucker (1826-1899)

Emergency Action Needed Immediately

to Save AB 1604 it is under attack!!!

Raw milk consumers please call all of the appropriations committee members and demand passage of AB 1604.

Our raw milk protecting AB 1604 bill has been sent to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. We believe this to be an action to kill AB 1604. AB 1604 was to be a non appropriations committee bill and was supposed to go directly to the floor of the assembly for a vote. This did not happen and we believe that CDFA and Big Dairy interests have become involved in a very dirty back room political game to kill AB 1604 in a friendly committee.

The appropriations committee is very friendly to Big Dairy and CDFA. This is their way of stopping AB 1604. It is another zero notice sneak attack on our raw milk availability. We did know of this committee vote until today [Jan. 23rd].

More importantly, it is critical that you call all of the assembly members (click on the link and scroll to the bottom for names, phone numbers and email addresses) that sit on the appropriations committee; demand that AB 1604 pass the committee.

Here is the message;

1. AB 1604 is not supposed to be an appropriations bill!!

2. AB 1604 secures raw milk for Californians. We demand it!!

3. AB 1604 passed the Assembly Ag Committee with a unanimous vote

4. AB1604 Ag committee hearings were attended by 700 people all demanding raw milk be protected as a matter of personal choice and medical necessity.

5. Asthma and allergies are healed by raw milk and many of the raw milk drinkers asthma will return if raw milk is not protected.

6. Other medical diseases will also return to raw milk consumers including Crohns, IBS, osteoporosis and celiac disease. Testimony was heard from doctors and scientists during the AB 1604 Assembly Ag Committee hearings about the strength of raw milk as a natural pro-biotic food.

7. AB 1604 must pass: it is a citizen's right to choose foods that are not processed.

This link is updated daily; click on CURRENT BILL STATUS to check the status of AB 1604 daily.

CURRENT BILL STATUS


MEASURE :  A.B. No. 1604
AUTHOR(S) :  Parra (Principal coauthors: Nunez and Villines).
TOPIC :  Market milk: raw milk: standards.
HOUSE LOCATION :  ASM
+LAST AMENDED DATE  :  01/22/2008


TYPE OF BILL : 
               Active
               Urgency
               Non-Appropriations
               2/3 Vote Required
               Non-State-Mandated Local Program
               Fiscal
               Non-Tax Levy

LAST HIST. ACT. DATE:  01/23/2008
LAST HIST. ACTION   :  Read second time.  To third reading.  Re-referred to
 Com. on  APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5.
COMM. LOCATION :  ASM APPROPRIATIONS

TITLE :  An act to amend Sections 35781, 35861, and 35891 of the
 Food and Agricultural Code, relating to milk, and
 declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
 immediately.