Dairy farmer Michael Schmidt has been harassed for years by Ontario because he gives people access to raw milk if they join his cow-share program. People buy shares in his cows thus becoming de jure owners, putting them on a par with Ontario’s dairy farmers and their families who may drink raw milk – but are not allowed to sell it.
Today, a year after Schmidt’s trial started, a Newmarket court agreed that Schmidt’s cow-share program does not break health laws. Great.
However, the larger question of why the public can’t buy raw milk is still unanswered.
In England, raw milk is sold in prettily green capped bottles. In many US states, raw milk is sold.
It is true, as the health police bleat, that raw milk MAY contain pathogens which MAY affect some people. But the same is true of raw meat and although Toronto now bans rare hamburgers, we can still buy raw ground beef.
And the government is foolish if it really believes it can legislate safe food. And dangerously misleading because there can never be l00% SAFE food as long as there are bacteria.
