Thursday, August 25, 2011

Farmageddon

Kristin Canty, who directed this 2010 advocacy documentary, became a raw milk convert after discovering that its natural microbes cured her son's chronic allergies, and a crusader after hearing from small farmers about the legal hassles they face in producing it. Tracing the problem to the corrupt ?swill dairies? of the mid-1800s, she shows how government-mandated pasteurization eventually ended the widespread sale of raw milk and allows intransigent bureaucrats to destroy people?s livelihoods with laws that were written for industrial producers (sound familiar?).?

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Source: http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2011/08/25/farmageddon

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