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Our Summer 2010 issue of Biodynamics focuses on issues surrounding raw milk production, distribution, and consumption — what's happening, why it matters, and what's at stake.

This resource page lists the resources mentioned in the magazine, as well as additional news and resources that have come to our attention.

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Biodynamics Articles


Resources

  • Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund: non-profit organization defending the rights and broadening the freedoms of family farms and protecting consumer access to raw milk and nutrient dense foods
  • Weston A. Price Foundation: non-profit organization dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the American diet through education, research, and activism
  • Raw Milk Production, by Tim Wightman: handbook covering a wide variety of topics — e.g., physical characteristics of a good cow, caring for your cow, the basics of pasture feeding, milking sanitation, storage and handling, milk testing, and bovine diseases (available for free download as a PDF)
  • Chore Time, Parts 1 and 2: free online videos on raw milk safety procedures
  • Cow-Share College and Goat-Share University: four-part teleseminar series focusing on legal and operations issues for cow-share operators, as well as for consumers interested in finding out more, offered by the Farm-to-Consumer Foundation
  • David Gumpert blog: covers developments in the battle over raw milk, from the author of The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle over Food Rights
  • Kimberly Hartke blog: features posts on dietary guidelines, small traditional farms, and safe raw milk, from the publicist for the Weston A. Price Foundation
  • Alliance for Raw Milk Internationale: connects families to natural farm-fresh food, natural farms, and nutritional education, with state and local U.S. chapters


News and Updates


Relevant Books

Raw Milk

  • The Untold Story of Raw Milk: The History, Politics and Science of Nature's Perfect Food: Raw Milk from Pasture-Fed Cows, by Ron Schmid: for those interested in the history of milk, the rise of compulsory pasteurization, health issues, dairy industry politics, and modern dairy farming and processing (revised in 2009, available from New Trends Publishing)
  • The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle over Food Rights, by David Gumpert: details the campaigns by various state governments to crack down on small raw milk producers and distributors (2009, available from Chelsea Green)
  • Real Food: What to Eat and Why, by Nina Planck: from the founder of the London farmers' market, nutritional reasons to eat traditional "real foods" and a historical account of the development of industrial foods, with a chapter devoted to "Real Milk, Butter, and Cheese" (2006, available from Bloomsbury)

Dairy Farming

  • Organic Dairy Farming: A Resource for Farmers, edited by Jody Padgham: a practical collection of articles by twenty authors — including vegetarians, farmers, researchers and specialists — that challenges the reader to begin to see that organic management is more than a single method or procedure
  • Treating Dairy Cows Naturally, by Robert J. Karreman: drawing upon veterinary treatments from the days before synthetic pharmaceuticals, and tempered with modern knowledge and clinical experience, thus bridging the world of natural treatments with life in the barn in a rational and easy to understand way

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