Brooklyn Milk Traffickers Deal Raw Product

courtesy Stay Healthy! blog

Swearing that a drink of raw milk beats a trip to the doctor, a Brooklyn woman has gotten in with an underground network that traffics the unhomogenized, unpasteurized product. According to the Brooklyn Paper, Hannah Springer and her fellow milk smugglers meet at secret "drop-off" points around the city, to collect bottles driven down from farms in Pennsylvania. Like many converts, Springer had her first taste after reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, and now she's addicted. “I no longer have to take thyroid meds, which every doctor said I would be on for the rest of my life,” said the mom, who feeds two glasses of the stuff to her 18-month old son daily. But if its curative properties are what she says, why does the FDA call it "inherently dangerous"?

“[Raw milk] should not be consumed by anyone at any time for any purpose,” said Michael Herndon, a spokesman for the FDA, explaining that "it may contain many pathogens … that may be especially problematic for infants, young children, the elderly.” As far back as 1987 the FDA has prohibited the shipment of raw milk across state lines, and the controversy over raw milk has raged. One organization, the Westin A. Price foundation—whose "Real Milk" campaign claims milk becomes less healthy through pasteurization—pointed Springer to her current "club" where she now acts as a membership director, excluding those who seek to "tear the group apart from the inside."

The dairy devotee has plans for a "drop off" service in Bay Ridge and Sunset Park, with each gallon of raw milk costing $6-7. The club also offers grass-fed beef, "true-pastured eggs" and "the best bacon in the world."

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By Sabrina Jaszi in Food on March 1, 2010 5:59 PM

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Hannah Springer

Since my name is used in this article, without my having ever been contacted or asked to answer the accusations in the Brooklyn Paper story, I would like an opportunity to set the record straight. For my rebuttal to this story and the original Brooklyn Paper story, please see my blog entry on this:

http://healthyfamilychronicles.blogspot.com/2010/03/midnight-rant.html

naprmm

Is the owner of this blog blocking my comments?

ridgeside

Another thing felix, those mercy for animals c*nts proved their full of shit when they said a cow was suffering with a pro lapsed uterus for two weeks, there was obvious no vet input when they pieced that crap together. That cow would have been dead in a few hours if not treated, if you want to campaign for something at least you could learn what your talking about. Also, a hidden video's do not have a (holocaust type) narrator, that whole thing was Heavily edited. Just another fund raiser, to"milk" fools like you for money.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

Give me the name of your farm so I can see all YOUR lies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEGw8iFbG5I&feature=player_embedded

dadoc

Damn, you guys crack me up. :)

ridgeside

Jesus, felix you silly little homo, I'm not posting my FUCKING address! Post your address so someone can video what you and the Mr do with your cat "companion", besides what the fuck would you do anyway, send some punk to do a "hidden" video? Well first off the video wouldn't reveal any thing you think it would and secondly, entering a farm building(without permission) is breaking and entering and subject to a serious ass whooping and yes trying to find my personal property is stalking and kinda creepy.

ridgeside

Typical response, I told you before, central pa. The federal, state, and cooperative inspectors have given me 100% rating since 2000(the year I purchased it) and are the only ones that I have to answer to, not a bunch of misinformed activist.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

what is the name of this farm so I can check those ratings?

ridgeside

Ha Ha Ha you stalker, if you were as smart as you think you are you would have found it by now. You can't even distinguish science from propaganda, so how would you know how farms are rated or be a critic of one ? Now go play grab ass with your boyfriend quit and stalking me , i can't keep stopping to correct you, cause i'm tring to get done and go coyote hunting tonite, Wish me luck!

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

i wish you shot yourself. What a coward, a loaded gun against an unarmed specie.

ridgeside

Way to show compassion, apparently you know nothing about wildlife management also. Coyotes are very damaging to rabbit, deer and other animal populations.Don't you value the life of small animals? coyotes are very crafty predators and are very hard to hunt, and its not cowardice, its pure skill. I can hit a two inch circle at over four hundred yards, just remember that if your stalking of me works out.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

that is nature but you shooting an unarmed specie is just cowardice. trailer park trash.

youngpro

what if we shot armed species?

ridgeside

Trailer park trash, and you call others infantile. coyotes can smell a human from extreme distances, see in the dark and would eat your cats in a heartbeat, so their hardly defenseless. I would rather have a herd of deer in my field, than a pack of coyotes, sorry you cant comprehend that but, possible there is a site somewhere on line that could teach you more, but I doubt it would make it past your "fact blocker".

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

no need for you to shoot them and for what? for your pleasure, sick trailer trash park coward.

ridgeside

Maybe we should spay and neuter them , so they don't overpopulate and wipe out the deer and rabbit population. You catch some and i'll pay to have it done . Idiot! Why don't you call me a poopy head next time?

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

The population will take care of its own, no need for you to shoot them for your own cowardly perversion and if you care about population then why do YOU continue to impregnate cows to sell poison (milk) to the uninformed consumers?

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

you the one who is stalking and you the one who WONT disclose the name of your farm because you know this is what will be found:

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/dairy/