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Re: Raw milk saves family farms & maybe your health too

@KimiWei — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:08:43 -0000

Theresa, cow shares are a way of getting around sales prohibitions on the sales of raw milk that raw milk advocates find onerous. The problem with operating in undefined areas of society's rules, is that you enter a twilight area which lacks that sharp clarity of being either black (prohibited) or white (OK). I'm not a lawyer, and am not offering legal advice, but – for myself –

here's how I would think this through:
1 If sale of raw milk is legally prohibited, but
2 consumption of raw milk is not illegal, then
3 it's probably fine to drink raw milk that comes from my own animal;
4 If there are no statutes prohibiting co-ownership of an animal in the indicated municipality, county, state and at the federal government animal, then
5 I can probably drink raw milk that comes from an animal I co-own;
6 Naturally, it will be OK for me to share in the cost of maintaining and caring for that milk-producing animal;
7 I will want to make sure that I have a signed contract that is likely to hold up in court, which establishes that I am co-owning the animal whose raw milk I drink (and not buying its milk)
8 I will want to stay abreast of changes to the law that could affect me:
9 If it becomes illegal to co-own an animal, I will want to know right away; and
10 If it becomes illegal to consume raw milk (as opposed to merely buying it) I will want to know that right away, too.

The way to prove that I could do this, is by identifying people who are already doing it and verifying that they haven't been found guilty in a court of law. We won't get any closer to a guarantee that it's OK to drink the raw milk of a co-owned cow or goat.

Re: Raw milk saves family farms & maybe your health too

Therlam@yahoo.com — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:24:43 -0000

Thank you for your post and the good work you do! I see you posted a paragraph from the FTCLDF on cow shares. I'm trying to find a resource stating that it can be done without goverment interference. The map on the FTCLDF shows that all raw milk is illegal. Do you have further insight on this Kimi?

Re: Portable Generator Safety

ANSI safety vests — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:28:33 -0000

NEVER connect the creator into a walls connect. This exercise, known as backfeeding, can cause an electrocution danger to application employees and others provided by the same application transformer.

Re: Sandy in New Jersey – News & General Resources

Sally G — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:06:00 -0000

Yeah, we seem to have survived the worst, but only luck—from the Reuters article on Oyster Creek, “Exelon Corp's 43-year-old New Jersey Oyster Creek
plant remains on "alert" status, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) said early Tuesday. It is only the third time this year that the
second-lowest of four emergency action levels was triggered.” Only?
Here is the link to the article: http://www.reuters.com/arti...
It is fortunate that the plant was shut for refueling; that made fire-hose water for cooling available that would not have been available if the plant was in operation.
The more I learn about Indian Point, the more I realize how many things can go wrong. So, so glad that this time it was safe.

Re: Sandy in New Jersey – News & General Resources

@KimiWei — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:42:48 -0000

Hi Sally. How are you doing? Apparently, only Indian Point was partially closed http://www.google.com/hoste...

Re: Sandy in New Jersey – News & General Resources

Sally G — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:01:42 -0000

Thanks, Kimi. You, too, and family stay safe and dry. This is a great collection; I will forward it to my NJ. friends and family.
Has anyone heard about the N.J. nuclear plants? I have heard very lilttle; am concerned about what might happen if any lose power, though I guess the worst is past.
Be well, all!

Re: Diabetes kills. Support NYC’s huge sugar drinks ban.

Blaine Shranka — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:50:58 -0000

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Re: Banish Fruit Flies

Bear — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:18:45 -0000

In my house I got what looked like fruit flies apparently with some veggies a friend gave me. But these flies are a little different from te usual. They are black, have black eyes and are 50% to 100% larger than the brownish-red flies I usually see. I see them all over still. I suppose the weather hasn't been cold enough to stop them. I think they bite too. I tried fly paper, but for some reason it was slow to work and I still have survivors. Thanks for the tip will try it

Re: Green Drinks Host Sally Gellert Is Arrested Protesting Oil Pipeline

Robert Jacobson, Ph.D. — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:12:01 -0000

Sally, you are an unsung champion. Thank you from all of us who know you and for the generations to come whom you may be saving. Congratulations, you activist, you!

Re: Dangers of Fracking – Fracturing Shale With Water

Sally G — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:15:57 -0000

The Halliburton Loophole, outrageously dangerous as it is, was inserted into the Safe Water Drinking Act in order to get it passed; no loophole, no act. So now we work to pass the FRAC Act, to restore what should have been in the SWDA from the beginning. I think knowing this provenance is important—it is one of those political trades that allow even a little protection to happen; how the 1% protects itself from regulation by a beholden government. Now we move on to shut down fracking entirely—we now have evidence of just how bad this garbage is, and the public-health and environmental disasters it causes.

Re: NASA Climatologist at BCC on Sept. 22

Not Telling — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:20:26 -0000

Whenever I think of James Hansen this always comes to mind: http://progcontra.blogspot....

Re: Protei: swimming ocean clean-up robots

Sandy — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:41:42 -0000

This is a pretty cool idea. Something else that’s related to this is a video I saw on the GreenopolisTV YouTube channel. You should see it. http://youtu.be/xyH957EEXWE