In honor of Real Milk and Lemonade Freedom Day, a group of activists are celebrating the affair in Washington D.C. with a mix of events, seminars and, of course, Real Food!
Local food is making huge inroads within communities across the United States. Some local governments are even passing food sovereignty laws to protect small farms from onerous regulations that might put them out of business.
I thought I would post this song in honor of the occasion to bring a smile to all of our faces and add a touch of humor to the very serious mission we all face in North America as we rally for the freedom to choose nutrient-dense food and unprocessed milk for ourselves and our children.
No one should be forced to support Big Dairy if he/she doesn’t want to!
We must all laugh, smile and be happy in the midst of this war we are silently fighting every single day as we choose to purchase and consume unprocessed grass-fed milk from the small farms in our community.
Humor is an essential aspect of the road to victory that will inevitably be ours as it will keep us sane and focused in the face of all the terrible persecutions that many small farmers and now even consumers are experiencing along the way.
So listen, laugh and enjoy! Thank you to Whey Jude for sending this delightful piece my way!
I think I am a moonshine buyer. In Colorado it is easier to get. Medicinal marijuana (there are more dispensaries than there are Starbucks) than it is to purchase raw milk.
I know what you mean. If we were a bit younger I know I could probably talk my husband into a cow and a few chickens as we are zoned residential-farming, but we are approaching retirement and both of us have talked of doing some traveling when my husband retires (which is only a out 18 months away) so that kind of responsibility would not be feasible at this point in time. What about finding or starting a co-op that brings the food in from with in the state?
There is a co-op in Venice (LA area) that bought it’s own goats and was paying a farmer in Santa Paula (about 60 miles away) to care for them and milk them. The state has raided the co-op on more than one occasion at gun point and taken thousands of dollars worth of product. They have also raided the farm. The story is reported in the movie “Farmageddodn.” This is an excellent movie for those concerned about what is happening to our food supply and our ability to access quality, nutrient dense food.
I know what you mean. If we were a bit younger I know I could probably talk my husband into a cow and a few chickens as we are zoned residential-farming, but we are approaching retirement and both of us have talked of doing some traveling when my husband retires (which is only a out 18 months away) so that kind of responsibility would not be feasible at this point in time.
Our moonshine milk supplier is moving his operation to a new location and we will not be able to get our raw milk for a few weeks 🙁 boohoo!!! After drinking it for 2.5 years I will not be purchasing pasteurized milk while we are out of raw. We are going to buy the best quality yoghurt available and make the kids smoothies instead 🙂 Not as good as raw milk, but better than storebought dead milk – blech. I wish I lived somewhere it was legal and I could just run to the store and get it whenever I need it. That would be awesome!
Here is CA we can run to the store and get it pretty much whenever we need it but we pay a price for it. With all of the heavy government regulations we $24.00/gal for it in glass plus we have to pay $1.50 deposit on each glass bottle. It’s slightly less in plastic but still very expensive. I think raw cream is about $14.00/pint. Sorry for the poor grammar but for some reason the website isn’t letting me go back and change things without deleting everything to that point :/
Wow! That is crazy expensive. Would it not be cheaper to go directly to the farmer and cut out the middleman?
Possibly Carol. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find any farmers within driving distance to buy from. I would love to get our own cow but so far I haven’t been able to talk the hubby into it, lol!
You can look on the Organic Pastures website (in CA) for retailers. I pick up our dairy at the farmers market and milk is much cheaper there, about $8/gal, like $6/pint for cream, $12/1# butter. Good luck 🙂
I live in Mississippi and am about to go pick up my weekly ration of contraband in a few minutes. My kids and I are allergic to corn so raw milk is our only option. We were without all dairy for a long time because there is no such thing as corn-free dairy in stores. Finally, we were introduced to our hero: The brave farmer who barters raw milk (at great risk) so we can have milk, cream and butter. Now I just have to learn to make my own cheese and we’ll be set. 8^)