California Raw Milk will live!

The following is quoted from a newsletter from Mark McAfee who runs the Organic Pastures Dairy Farm in California:
fffffff"It will be a happy, healthy New Year indeed! California consumers have spoken loudly against AB 1735's biased, scientifically unsupported restrictions on raw milk. Your passionate voices have been heard.
In the last three weeks, the California raw milk battle front has been abuzz with tremendous grass roots effort, back stage political activity and high level meetings. As a result, the course of California raw milk history has been changed.
Here is a brief update of the progress:
Three things protect your raw milk in California:
1. The Secretary of Agriculture has offered political support.
A.G. Kawamura has dedicated himself to safe raw milk for California, declaring that "AB 1735 standards will not act as a de-facto ban on raw milk." Secretary Kawamura made this statement adamantly and repeatedly at a December 20th meeting with Claravale and Organic Pastures dairy representatives. He pledged to review our four-inch stack of documentation entitled "AB 1735: The Unheard Argument" and promised to work with us to assure the continued availability of raw milk.
2. A new law will be introduced in January reversing AB 1735. An investigation has exposed certaiin CDFA employees who met without authorization and, using erroneous data, advised staff members of the Assembly Agriculture Committee to place "eight special anti-raw milk words" into AB 1735. All CDFA agency legislative matters and bills must be reviewed and authorized by the Governor's office, as required by the Executive Branch and administrative policy and procedure. Instead, highly misleading information was used to rapidly and secretly pass AB 1735 on a "consent item" basis without discussion or open debate. Assemblymen and State Senators who voted for AB 1735 are now very upset that they were misled, and support immediate repeal on procedural grounds. The Attorney General's office might step in, having noted an aberrant violation of established process in furtherance of a "biased agenda that is far from being a consent item."
3. A lawsuit is being filed this week in San Benito County. Part of that lawsuit includes an injunction which legally secures raw milk producers against enforcement of AB 1735 until a new law can be passed.

While the raw milk fight is far from over, the safety of the California raw milk supply has been secured with multiple layers of strategic political, legislative and legal efforts. Hearings will soon be announced as part of the new bill and legislative process that will start in January. Your participation will continue to be essential to deepen the protections put in place.

Keep sending a powerful message: In order to strengthen our work going forward, we ask that you take pictures of yourself and your family holding raw milk bottles from Claravale and/or Organic Pastures Dairy. Write on the picture: Please support repeal of AB 1735." Then mail them to the Governor's office, your State Assemblyman, and the State Senators' offices. The impact of a personal plea with a picture of your family is worth a thousand words.

Congratulations to all who participate in the "grass roots raw milk revolution." Your thousands of letters and calls made all the difference! California raw milk is SAFE from AB 1735 and those that sought to eliminate this sacred healing whole food.

Warmly, Mark McAfee, Founder of Organic Pastures Dairy"

Post Script: a US Senator has introduce legislation that allows transportation and sale of unpasteurized milk and milk products, as long as the milk both originates from and is shipped to states that allow the sale of unpasteurized milk and milk products....

Stay informed regarding raw milk in California

Keep yourself informed regarding the California state raw milk issues and actions.
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AB 1735 ACTION ALERT
Final action short of lawsuit necessary
to overturn AB 1735

Please, immediately contact:

California Senator Abel Maldonado
CA Secretary of Agriculture Mr. A. G. Kawamura

As a direct result of your recent actions, key assembly representatives support overturning AB 1735.

However, California Assembly members expressed concern that we do not have the support of California Senator Abel Maldonado who head the agricultural committee and California Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. A.G. Kawamura.

It is critical that we create an avalanche of political pressure by sending them strong messages (see below). Please call and FAX Abel Maldonado and A.G. Kawamura immediately. Faxes are more important than calls but both work best. Thank you.

Contact the CA Senator Maldonado immediately!
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Senator Abel Maldonado (R)
California State Capitol
Room 4082
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 651-4015 or (805) 549-3784
Fax: (916) 445-8081

<> Contact the CA Secretary of Agriculture immediately!

A.G. Kawamura
Secretary of Food and Agriculture
1220 N St., Suite 400
Sacramento, Ca. 95814
Phone: (916) 654-0321 or (916) 654-0433
Fax: 916-654-0403

suggestions: The following points may seem harsh but they reflect truth (see "Background" below). The Senator and Secretary need to know what has happened on there watch:

1. I want and need raw milk to maintain and increase my health and well being. It should not be so regulated that it will bankrupt dairies and not be commercially available to me.
   

2. Certain staff members within CDFA who maintain personal prejudices against raw milk participated and conspired in an illegal, secret and silent process to deny me access to raw milk.

3. Demand that they use their powers to immediately suspend or reverse AB 1735 and the "less-than-10 coliform" standard for raw milk in California.

4. Demand that the CDFA staff who misrepresented raw milk science and snuck the groundless coliform standard into AB 1735 be dismissed immediately

Background:

Certain staff members in CDFA introduced negative language into a bill which would be applied to an industry which it regulates. That is illegal activity which defies written administrative policy and must not be tolerated within CDFA. The normal legal process requires CDFA to bring any legislative language to the attention of the governor's office prior to contacting an assembly committee. CDFA misrepresented facts, claiming AB 1735 was so insignificant that it could be handled “as a consent item” and did not require discussion or debate. Other substantial and material misstatements of fact also occurred to keep AB 1735 secret and silent.

This may be the last effort needed to overcome AB 1735. Please call and FAX your letters today. See www.SaveRawMilk.org

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