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Article: Raw Milk Defenders Flock To County ; Organization Hosts Event On Amish Farm
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- Intelligencer Journal/New Era
- Article date:
- July 5, 2008
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Hundreds of people gathered under a yellow-and-white-striped tent
on a windswept Christiana farm Friday afternoon to celebrate the
right of all Americans to drink raw milk.
The crowd, some from as far away as California and New Mexico,
also would have liked to celebrate America's independence from
government regulation of the sale of unpasteurized milk.
But about half of all states ban raw milk sales, citing safety
concerns. Many others impose strict limits on producers.
Those restrictions spurred the creation last year of the Farm-to-
Consumer Legal Defense Fund, which celebrated its first anniversary
Friday with a picnic on the farm of Jake and Barbie Zook, who
produce and sell raw milk.
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