{"id":641,"date":"2007-05-23T17:16:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T17:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=74"},"modified":"2007-05-23T17:16:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T17:16:30","slug":"52307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"5\/23\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

In solidarity, I sat in with a group of farmers during a Statehouse meeting in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday. \u00a0 These farmers tout the tremendous nutritional value of \u00a0raw milk \u00a0— as \u00a0opposed to \u00a0milk that is \u00a0pastuerized. \u00a0 They explain that when milk is pastuerized, the heating process kills off a significant portion of the nutrients. \u00a0 Selling raw milk in Ohio, however, is currently illegal. \u00a0 Yet it is legal for family members on a farm to consume raw milk. \u00a0 And in recent years “herd share” programs have developed as a form of Community Sponsored Agriculture. \u00a0 People buy “shares” in a farmer’s cows, and as a result have access to raw milk from those cows as well. \u00a0 A representative from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources explained during the meeting that new Ohio Governor Ted Strickland grew up on a farm drinking raw milk and is supportive of the herd share programs. \u00a0 What’s more, these farmers have started a “Graziers Association” in Ohio to inspire more farmers to get involved with producing raw milk. \u00a0 They believe as this happens, the climate toward raw milk will change in kind. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> These farmers’ cows are grass fed and most do everything on the farm organically. \u00a0 It is, indeed, environmental stewardship at it’s best. \u00a0 Professor Wayne Feister, who is on the faculty for the Ohio State University Medical School, attended the meeting. \u00a0 He said it is an irony that smoking cigarettes (with all their attendant health risks) is legal, but raw milk for mass consumption in Ohio is not… To learn more, go to www.theotherrawmilk.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In solidarity, I sat in with a group of farmers during a Statehouse meeting in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday. \u00a0 These farmers tout the tremendous nutritional value of \u00a0raw milk \u00a0— as \u00a0opposed to \u00a0milk that is \u00a0pastuerized. \u00a0 They explain …<\/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-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}