{"id":498,"date":"2006-05-11T11:45:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T11:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=492"},"modified":"2006-05-11T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T11:45:49","slug":"51106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"5\/11\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"

My family and I stood in solidarity with some 175 Ohioans lobbying to legalize the sale of raw milk at a Statehouse hearing in Columbus yesterday. (Ohio has prohibited this since 1997.) One of the participants lamented to the House Committee that it seems an irony (if not an absolute travesty) that a group of citizens in the year 2006 have to fight to drink “raw milk,” which people for thousands of years just took for granted. John Ciprian said raw milk is “healthy, natural and unaltered artificially by man.” The contention, which was expressed in various ways throughout the hearing, is when milk goes through the heating of a pasturization process, many of the key vitamins and minerals are either eliminated, or diminished considerably. Carolyn Jackson, a dietician, drew a corrolary to the nutritional value of a mother’s breast milk. And she said we’ve never considered pasturizing that. Physician Wayne Feister said raw milk was “nutrient dense” and denying the public this and other natural, unaltered, sources of nutrition leads to a cadre of public health problems — because the immune system has been weakened in kind. During the testimonials at the end of the hearing, one person said that she found it amazing Ohioans can purchase alcohol and cigarettes — but they can’t purchase raw milk. Note: <\/strong> The night before, I talked with Worthington, Ohio’s William Ruth, 84. He told me he grew up on family farm in Johnstown, Pennsylvannia. He and his seven siblings drank raw milk from the farm’s cows as youth. He said besides himself, three of his siblings are now in their 80s as well… Maybe the saying should change to: “got raw<\/em> milk?” <\/strong>Note 2:<\/strong> We urge Ohioans to call or write their legislators urging the passing of House Bill 534 to legalize the sale of raw milk. And we strongly urge more people to consider supporting your local organic farmers in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My family and I stood in solidarity with some 175 Ohioans lobbying to legalize the sale of raw milk at a Statehouse hearing in Columbus yesterday. (Ohio has prohibited this since 1997.) One of the participants lamented to the House …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}