FDA Plans Uncooked Milk Shutdown. Please Share This With Your Farmer ASAP

The Weston Value Basis has responded with this necessary Motion Alert.

On June 6, the FDA wrote to all state public well being and agriculture businesses advising them on the necessity to “collectively work to handle new developments associated to the presence of Excessive Pathogenic Avian Influenza A H5N1 (HPAI H5N1) in dairy cattle.”

Though admitting that  “. . . we have no idea presently if the HPAI H5N1 virus will be transmitted to people via consumption of uncooked milk and merchandise made out of uncooked milk from contaminated cows,” the company recommends that well being and agriculture departments “Distribute messaging to the general public in regards to the well being dangers of consuming uncooked milk and uncooked milk merchandise” and “[i]mplement a surveillance testing program in your state to establish the presence of HPAI H5N1 virus in dairy herds that may be engaged in producing uncooked milk for intrastate saleThe FDA and USDA will present “technical help” in sampling and testing.

Their motive is clearly said: “For states that allow the sale of uncooked milk inside their state, use regulatory authorities or implement different measures, as acceptable, to cease the sale of uncooked milk which will current a threat to shoppers.”

We will assume from this memo that uncooked milk farmers shall be receiving visits from officers wanting to check their milk for a non-existent virus utilizing a bogus testing methodology, simply as they’ve executed for flocks of chickens.

Happily, some hen farmers have averted this testing and prevented the slaughter of their animals by insisting that inspectors fill out two questionnaires.

1. Inspector Data type to acquire the names and speak to info of these visiting their farm (under).
2. Questionnaire for Inspector, which asks for proof of profitable isolation of the fowl flu virus, proof of contagious nature of the fowl flu virus, kind of check that shall be used and speak to info of the lab that shall be doing the testing (under).

Clearly, no inspector will be capable of present the data requested on the shape, info that’s the farmer’s proper to have.  The hope is that they may go away and by no means come again–as they’ve with astute hen farmers.

ACTION TO TAKE: Please share these varieties along with your uncooked milk producer.  We hope that these measures will forestall the FDA’s deliberate shutdown of uncooked milk farmers.

Sincerely yours,

Sally Fallon Morell, President

The Weston A. Value Basis