You can easily buy a gun. You can easiy buy cigarettes. But you cannot buy RAW MILK in many states. What's up with that?

Instead of cleaning up the factory farms where cattle are raised indoors, injected with growth hormones and antibiotics, and fed grain and corn, big agriculture (with the help of the FDA) chooses to go after local raw milk farmers as they cannot compete with them.

The Raw Milk battle symbolizes the fight for our right to real food, specifically local, grass-fed and organic food grown by farmers who care about our health, the health of our food and the health of the environment. The Weston A Price Foundation has worked diligently to provide solid research showing raw milk has man healthy immune building properties and that pastuerized and homogenized milk is dangerous to your health.

If this sounds intriguing, please join us for Organic Pastures Dairy founder Mark McAfee's talk on the benefits of Raw Milk. Organic Patures Dairy products will be available for sample and sale.

We're expecting a large crowd, so if you plan to attend, please RSVP to wapfsantabarbara@gmail.com so we have enough seating and samples to go around.

Mark will also hold a talk in Ojai at 12:30pm earlier that day - RSVP to wapfventura@gmail.com.

Raw Milk News

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The Battle for Raw Milk - Farm to Consumers Legal Defense Fund

The Despicable Reason Behind Raw Milk Bans

Raw Milk Information You Can Trust

Friday, January 21, 2011

All about Grass Fed Beef!

Sunday, February 13, 4pm

What?! Beef is as healthy for you as fish???? No, I can't believe it. Beef from a sustainable farm that actually improves the environment and reduces the carbon footprint???? No way!

With the exception of butter, no other food has been subjected to such intense demonization in recent years as red meat, particularly beef. The juicy hamburger, that delicious marbled steak and the Sunday roast have been accused of terrible crimes. It's the Beef by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig of the Weston A. Price Foundation, expose common myths about beef and explain why consuming beef is essential to good health.

If this sounds intriguing, please join us at the home of local rancher John de Bruin of DeyDey's Best Beef Ever, discuss how he became a proponent and rancher of grass-fed beef, the inner-workings of his ranch and sustainable farming practices, the health benefits of grass-fed beef and pastured chicken, and the joy he has found in sharing his passion for healthy food with our community. Samples of Dey Dey's Best Beef Ever will be provided.

If you plan to attend, please bring a delicious snack to share with others at the meeting. Please RSVP below or to wapfsantabarbara@gmail.com so that we can have enough samples and snacks for all to try. Directions will be provided upon RSVP.

March 13 - Raw Milk Presentation

Organic Dairy Pastures will be coming to Santa Barbara Sunday at 4pm. Learn why Raw Milk is good for your health and why you should not drink pasteurized milk. You can obtain raw milk in Santa Barbara here.