Organic Pastures milk heads back to shelves - Page 3

[Gale Force]

I haven't heard a thing, but I'd probably be able to go. I'll be in Visalia tomorrow and Friday anyway. But with no announcements yet, it probably would be this weekend or next week. Who knows. I've got one boy who can entertain (or perhaps find mischief with) your three. And I assume this would be in the Fresno area. That's two hours for us, though just an hour from Visalia. How about you?

[MyLittleWonders]

We are down in Long Beach, and I think we typically make Fresno in about 4 hours when we go to Yosemite. Yes, my boys would definitely be the "make mischief" types. If you hear anything, let me know ... especially if it's on a weekend, my dh would totally be all over driving up there on a whim - we used to do spontaneous road trips before children all the time.

[Gale Force]

Hey, it's appropriate you are asking about the milk diet since Charles Sanford Porter, THE Milk Diet guru from a century ago had a "sanitarium" in Long Beach before it was even called "Long Beach" I believe.

[2sweetboysmom]

Gale Force, do you have any new news regarding the end of the recall, and or the previously mentioned rally? I am keeping a window open to the OP site and keep refreshing it once an hour or so. I don't know if I can talk DH into the fuel expenditure to drive up to the Central Valley but I would love to go. Having grown up in Visalia I almost feel like OP is extended family. Not to mention I want it to be wildly aparent to the state and media that there are a lot of us who believe in the safety and necessity of raw dairy. If I cannot come I think I will contribute to the raw milk film they are working on.
I called my HFS and asked about when they were expecting raw fluid milk. They were feeling hopefull and think maybe tomorrow they will have milk again. :

[Gale Force]

No idea. I think lawyers on both sides have counseled to keep traps shut until this is concluded. It's hard otherwise to understand the media silence. Hopefully we'll have a bit of notice on the rally if there is one.

[guestmama9916]

Dr. Mercola speaks out

Dr. Mercola has a 5 minute video on his website talking about E. coli and Organic Pastures milk. He says that the e. coli strain blamed on the milk was the same one that contaminated the spinach. He believes the 4 kids were contaminated by spinach and not by the milk. Its a very interesting 5 minutes!

http://www.mercola.com/current_vidupdate20060928.htm

Kim

[Gale Force]

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[Gale Force]

For those of you who get email notifications, I should be less cryptic:

I linked to a thread with info on a press conference tomorrow (Friday) at the Organic Pastures dairy.

[Icon]

Here is an interesting link with good information.

http://home.earthlink.net/~optimal/3...aw%20milk3.htm

Sorry, new here, but hope this helps someone out. luckily I had 5 gallons frozen, so thus far I have been unaffected. down to 3.5 now.

[Gale Force]

Wecome Icon and thanks for the link.

I will bring a couple of gallons in the cooler tomorrow for refreshments.

[MyLittleWonders]

woo hoo!!! So, you think they'll be selling some tomorrow? We could pack the cooler and bring a bunch home for the freezer!

[Gale Force]

Originally Posted by MyLittleWonders

woo hoo!!! So, you think they'll be selling some tomorrow? We could pack the cooler and bring a bunch home for the freezer!

Yep, it's $8/gallon direct from the dairy. Who knows. I'd bring a cooler.

[Icon]

You are welcome! Its to far of a drive for me, but I got them some new customers today to make up for the bad press, and have managed to correct most of my friends and neighbors who immediately tried to save me and my children from getting sick.

[2sweetboysmom]

Heater coil just went out in car. No way to make it over the hills to come tomorrow. I really wanted to go too. I will be there in spirit and will be quite the media junkie trying to find some coverage of the press conf from here.
Drink some raw milk in public for me Gale Force
Joy

[Gale Force]

OK, we'll get a report back to you guys as soon as possible (which is likely pretty late tonight). You should be able to dissect the news up and down before that.

[seahorsie]

Here is the latest I've read - how was the press conference?


CDFA lifts quarantine of Organic Pastures raw milk and cream


FRESNO
September 29, 2006 6:50pm

• Operation given clean bill of health by state

• Fresno County still imposes some restrictions

A quarantine on raw whole milk, raw skim milk and raw cream produced by Organic Pastures Dairy Co., a dairy farm and processing plant in Fresno, was lifted late Friday.

Organic Pastures has met the requirements of the state veterinarian to clear its manufacturing operations, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

However, the Fresno County Department of Community Health, Environmental Health Division, which oversees farm operations, still has restrictions in place requiring that Organic Pastures raw milk may only be used for manufactured products ? such as cheese ? and may not be used for Grade-A fluid raw milk and raw cream.

“To clarify, the lifting of the quarantine does not mean that Organic Pastures raw milk and raw cream will immediately be returning to retail shelves. Until the Fresno County restrictions are removed, the dairy still may not bottle fluid milk and cream,” CDFA says.

The Fresno County restrictions on Organic Pastures farm, which are not related to the quarantine, are due to a higher somatic cell count than regulations allow in Grade-A fluid milk, the state says.

High somatic cell counts are not a human health issue, but affect product shelf life and taste. Fresno County is working with Organic Pastures to resolve this issue as soon as possible, according to CDFA.

On Sept. 21, the state issued a recall and quarantine hold of raw milk products produced by Organic Pastures. CDFA says state law requires the state veterinarian to take action when epidemiological evidence links a danger to health with an animal product.

“Experts at the California Department of Health Services studied all information available to determine linkages in the cases of four children stricken with E. coli O157:H7 bacterial illness,” says CDFA. “That information revealed that the only common exposure reported by all four cases was consumption of raw milk or raw colostrum from Organic Pastures in the week prior to symptom onset.”

[Sammy'sMommy]

Big Milk companies are to blame

Personally I feel that big milk that pasturizes is to blame for the scare they dont want this raw milk thing to get big and take away their profit.

does anyone know where to get raw milk that does not cost so much? I have a baby that drinks a gallon in 2 days.

[chloeM]

just dropping in to say a big HELLO!!! We live in Canada and it is totally illegal to sell raw milk Thankfully its not illegal to buy over the border and bring back and we are 15 minutes from Washington I did find an organic farm that was willing to sell me it on the sly but I couldnt do it knowing that if they got caught they could go to jail and I didnt feel good about it. I think its totally silly. There have been many foods that have caused illnesses, usually not long lived ones, but tampering with the food that God gave us to enjoy in its wholeness has caused so many more problems!!! If you compare the illnesses from pasterized milk that stripped the good protective bacteria compared to the real milk that contains mabe a little bad bacteria and huge amount of good bacteria, the pasturized has caused much more illnesses, but people arent convinced. Next thing you know spinach is gonna be banned. Just like people to throw the baby out with the bath water. Anywho, talking about a milk diet for healing. Im kinda doing that now kinda. Im drinking at liest a litre of raw kefir milk for colitis, and not much anyhing else. There is some guy in Ontario Canada that has gone on a raw milk fast to prove to the government that its safe . Im in!!