The
healthy benefits of raw milk, fresh from a cow (or goat), have
long been known and utilized—until industry, refrigerated trucking,
and more concern for profit and shelf life overtook common sense. This
is when milk began being pasteurized, homogenized, and otherwise
adulterated. But healthy raw milk is still available, right here in
your hometown!
Would
you like to find out how you can legally acquire weekly gallons of
unprocessed milk through participating in a herd-share program? Would
you like to help support your local farmers who are working hard
around the clock to produce this basic but essential food? Would you
like to learn more about how raw milk can improve your families’
health? Eczema, malnutrition, and common allergies are among the many
health concerns often alleviated by returning this nourishing,
simple food to our tables.
Right
now there is a lot of serious work going on around the state to
legalize raw milk sales on farms. Please write to your senator and
representatives and tell them your thoughts on this important
decision. (See http://w3.legis.state.ak.us/
for contact information.) Even sending two lines with your name and
phone number can be counted as another Alaskan interested in
supporting food sovereignty, self-sufficiency, freedom of choice, and
local economy.
In
a state that only produces 2% of its own food, it makes sense to do
what we can to "grow our own," especially with the rising
cost of fuel, the closure of Matanuska Maid, and the sad fact that as
we await the opening of a new creamery to process milk, farmers are
pouring their hard work on manure piles—and yes, I mean this
literally!
If
you would like to attend a talk on raw milk with Stella Lyn, local
herbalist and the chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation in
Palmer, AK, please email artemis@mtaonline.net
or call 907-746-1353 for more information. If we can legally sell
cigarettes and alcohol, why not the most basic food on our
planet?!
