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fresh whole milk or pasteurized milk
lifelong grew up with both it seems there's a huge battle underway for the
hearts and minds of consumers
so he did that even the centers for disease control and prevention
recently weighed in with the study that our guest from the western a prize
foundation in washington d_c_ are trying to alert consumers that threshold
unpasteurized milk is perfectly safe
happy kennedy's in attorneys not located in washington is actually in sarasota
florida
he's president of the farm to consumer legal defense fund they work on their
issues for the western a price foundation
particularly the right the farmers to distribute raw milk and roll milk
products direct to consumers
he's represented or assisted in the representation of dairy farmers
facing possible state enforcement action
in florida wisconsin ohio michigan in india
and he sought farmers get started the business of distributing raw milk and
raw milk products in many other states
he's written articles for wise traditions magazine on the interstate
ban on raw milk and why this is a bad thing
and products for human consumption of the and on the legality of selling raw
milk for interstate consumption
relevant here on the far
uh... you know this is this is a a very big issue for us so first let's start by
saying welcome the world to be kennedy
good afternoon dennis thanks for having me on
thank you
i do live on a working for him and my wife is a farmer's daughter and when we
visited the u_s_a_ together a decade or so ago we bought a leader a court uh...
container of uh... that super high temperature pasteurized milk
which have expiration date of nearly one month into the future and both of us
have to spit it out
because who drank it
because there's been a a rather large and growing fight over the interstate
transport of raw milk for sale of the u_s_o_
please let's start there let's help our viewers understand
what's the issue at stake here
a lot of it is really a an economic issue in the guise of
uh... a health issue really there's a up market share at at stake here diya
conventional dairy industry has lost uh... lots of market share
uh... the demand for raw milk is is growing
all the time
so
you juicy
there are
at one time in this country there are six hundred thousand dairy farmers of
the conventional industry
uh... macabre over the us
pocket it's that
uh... decreasing all the time of the demand for brought no punitive set up
ah... going up
it's really pitched to prove systems investment groups use them
persisted local
uh... food system and raw milk is really
at the heart of of the local food system in this country these days
now you and and the the uh... the west unit price foundation recently
uh... released
press release and a series of of points
that are questioned what the centers for disease control
found in their report talk a little bit about the issues that that that both
both organizations have
with that report
well first of all
yet uh...
bases
its report on the number of outbreaks as opposed to that
actual number of uh... uh... illnesses i mean raw milk is mainly sold at the
local level it's a very traceable food if it if it is responsible for an
outbreak of
don't find it but when you looked at that number of people
who were actually sick
it it's a very
small number in most cases and when we are the yet conventional dairy industry
uh... has now operate they can be in the thousands uh... there was one outbreak
back in the eighties were close to two hundred thousand
uh... people uh... became sick soldiers to use the number of outbreaks
instead of the actual a broken inexplicably
do you have the support of a
of a rather famous uh... congressman who also
ran for president in terms of trying to
uh... get the
uh... the bands in the restrictions eased on interstate transport here talk
a little bit about the involvement of uh...
upon hold both as a as a congressman and his presidential candidate
sure well just as great background for thursday night
then for the past twenty five years through federal regulation on raw milk
for human consumption in interstate commerce
in
ron paul the last two sections of uh... congress is a entered used a bill that
in effect
would double ***
whose uh... then
uh... from what i understand he actually doesn't drink that much raw milk himself
but uh... he is a libertarian he believes in uh... freedom of choice
of the bill would have kept regulation at the state level
wong wrote more than any other food is regulated at the state level up uh...
because of the band
and it just ahead
the first session he introduced it job
didn't have a co-sponsored a bill that all the last session at five co-sponsors
soldiers
you can tell that uh...
e with each retirements and reduced it'll be more as support for
one and and we are talking big feet
by the way we're speaking weepy cavity of the western a prize foundation and
also they
the farmers right activist lawyer in sarasota florida here and will be
weekends campbell now we're just talking a second email about the bobbitts too
and and like the farmer ddl
they clearly have a stranglehold on the supply chain from farm to milk to it
way products are the use for cheese and yogurt
so but what are the issues with such tight control what happens at the local
level
and what you've got right now is they'd fruit
the industrial food system probably has
around ninety eight percent market share in this country
local food system only as two percent but it is growing all the time but that
we don't the small margins the tiny margins big food has that two percent
isabella quite a bit
so there
throughout the media there
for years to try to denies wrongdoing
uh... in really raw milk
more than any other food is at the center of uh... the conflict between the
two through systems just
uh...
the analogy don't look at is when
someone goes to the supermarket there usually going there to get a perishable
item like no
once they're there to about you know uh...
any number of other products for brought milk is what gets into the supermarket
the first place
we're on the farm what we find without our members or former members is that
raw milk is what brings the consumer up there
uh... initially
once you're there they might buy meat poultry that case uh... programs
but raw milk is like that some on the farm in the first place i was a lot more
than just brought no sales in august a chart
okay and and and if you if you look at the way that date
big news is
flexing its muscles out there in the marketplace and then use it
is it going to affect you in any way that for example
uh... even the activists of people that are trying to expose
issues within the food chain itself now have the fear
they're filming efforts of animal abuse and things of that slipping against the
law
is that an issue that enters into the
uh... the area of concern of what you're trying to do with raw milk are
art rally
it gets more
were or mainly concerned with getting the small farmers access to market
disproving the other barriers at entry
uh... we think that's the nature of the public should be made aware of your
talking about you know the filming of a confined in will of the operations
is that right there is one of the the biggest reasons up of people are going
to uh... to try and purchase locals will but our main
purpose is to uh... of project the right of farmers and consumers division
director honors
best of luck with the ethics p_m_ a huge fan of fresh foods of all the way to
that
it was worth fighting for it must be good for you
thank you for being on the
papers exams that peter kennedy is an attorney in sarasota florida working on
behalf of the west may price foundation in washington d_c_ and their fight to
provide consumers with choice and farmers with the support they need to
wage this ongoing battle
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