The battle over raw milk is now a documentary
Posted by Casandra Campbell / May 3, 2011
0 Comments Milk War, a documentary about the much-heralded organic dairy farmer Michael Schmidt, screened at The Toronto Underground Cinema on Sunday as part of an event to raise awareness about the status of raw milk in Canada. Currently, unpasteurized milk cannot legally be sold in Canada and consumers who wish to purchase raw milk have a difficult time getting their hands on it. Many people, including Michael Schmidt and the producers of Milk War believe this regulation should be changed and are willing to fight for it. Milk War is about their story.
Not surprisingly, the event drew a throng of raw milk supporters. Harmony Organics made an appearance handing out free milk and cookies but, as per the current ban on raw milk, everything served was pasteurized.
The film itself functions as a kind of expose on the raw milk war that has been well documented by local media.It begins with footage from the raid on Schmidt's farm in 2006 where his equipment is seized and Schmidt arrested and charged with several criminal offenses for selling raw milk to his neighbours. The doc then contrasts this with footage from post-war Germany where Schmidt grew up.
Schmidt's first memory, we're told, is seeing his mother stand up to a military tank. This creates a lasting impression - it was a lesson he learned at a young age to not be afraid to stand up for what he believes. In his life today, this means standing up for the right to choose what kind of milk he drinks.
The film proceeds to interview a host of interested parties including raw milk proponents, scientists, government officials and other dairy farmers. While unpasteurized milk is legally sold in many other developed nations around the world, it has been outlawed in Canada since 1981. Some claim it's a source dangerous bacteria causing which can cause serious health issues, while proponents insist it can cure everything from low energy to cancer.
The film serves as a thorough introduction to the topic of raw milk and the Schmidt's battle with Canadian authorities although it's cleary one-sided in it views. Much of the evidence for both sides in the film is anecdotal at best and not always approached from the most educated perspective.
At one point in the film Schmidt states that his milk doesn't contain pathogens or harmful bacteria because of how he pretreats his fertilizer - a complicated process that involves burying fecal matter in a horn and later stirring it into water while creating "chaos" - but the connection between the two isn't made entirely clear.
The quality of the editing also leaves something to be desired. There are many instances of poor quality audio and it comes across as a high school documentary - a cheesy one at that (pun intended). This probably explains why it's not showing at Hot Docs. Nevertheless, it's an interesting story about a topic that affects all of us - how much control the government should have over what we eat.
Posted by Casandra Campbell / May 3, 2011
0 Comments Milk War, a documentary about the much-heralded organic dairy farmer Michael Schmidt, screened at The Toronto Underground Cinema on Sunday as part of an event to raise awareness about the status of raw milk in Canada. Currently, unpasteurized milk cannot legally be sold in Canada and consumers who wish to purchase raw milk have a difficult time getting their hands on it. Many people, including Michael Schmidt and the producers of Milk War believe this regulation should be changed and are willing to fight for it. Milk War is about their story.
Not surprisingly, the event drew a throng of raw milk supporters. Harmony Organics made an appearance handing out free milk and cookies but, as per the current ban on raw milk, everything served was pasteurized.
The film itself functions as a kind of expose on the raw milk war that has been well documented by local media.It begins with footage from the raid on Schmidt's farm in 2006 where his equipment is seized and Schmidt arrested and charged with several criminal offenses for selling raw milk to his neighbours. The doc then contrasts this with footage from post-war Germany where Schmidt grew up.
Schmidt's first memory, we're told, is seeing his mother stand up to a military tank. This creates a lasting impression - it was a lesson he learned at a young age to not be afraid to stand up for what he believes. In his life today, this means standing up for the right to choose what kind of milk he drinks.
The film proceeds to interview a host of interested parties including raw milk proponents, scientists, government officials and other dairy farmers. While unpasteurized milk is legally sold in many other developed nations around the world, it has been outlawed in Canada since 1981. Some claim it's a source dangerous bacteria causing which can cause serious health issues, while proponents insist it can cure everything from low energy to cancer.
The film serves as a thorough introduction to the topic of raw milk and the Schmidt's battle with Canadian authorities although it's cleary one-sided in it views. Much of the evidence for both sides in the film is anecdotal at best and not always approached from the most educated perspective.
At one point in the film Schmidt states that his milk doesn't contain pathogens or harmful bacteria because of how he pretreats his fertilizer - a complicated process that involves burying fecal matter in a horn and later stirring it into water while creating "chaos" - but the connection between the two isn't made entirely clear.
The quality of the editing also leaves something to be desired. There are many instances of poor quality audio and it comes across as a high school documentary - a cheesy one at that (pun intended). This probably explains why it's not showing at Hot Docs. Nevertheless, it's an interesting story about a topic that affects all of us - how much control the government should have over what we eat.
Bankers Steal the American Dream (Video) Youtube
The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day? THE AMERICAN DREAM takes an entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system we have in America today. You will be challenged to investigate some very entrenched and powerful institutions in this nation, and hopefully encouraged to help get our nation back on track.
The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day? THE AMERICAN DREAM takes an entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system we have in America today. You will be challenged to investigate some very entrenched and powerful institutions in this nation, and hopefully encouraged to help get our nation back on track.
Food: The Ultimate Secret Exposed - Alex Jones' Special Report
The grocery store, along with your kitchen sink, are two of the most dangerous places in the world.
In a special video, Alex Jones addresses one of the darkest modes of power the globalists have used to control the population– food. The adulteration of the planet’s staple crops, genetically-altered species and intentionally-altered water, food and air all amount to a Eugenics operation to weaken the masses and achieve full spectrum domination.
Many of these substances knowingly cause or are linked with sterility, low birth weight, miscarriages, smaller or deformed offspring, as well as organ failure, cancer, brain tumors and Death itself, what you DON’T know about on your grocery shelves can hurt you. Further, Alex demonstrates that a pattern of buried studies, fraudulent statistics and a will reduce global population all point to the deliberate criminal poisoning of the food and water supply.
Suffer no fools if those you show refuse to believe what is going on. Instead, research these important areas for yourself, and warn those you love about need to stop their food from being used as a Depopulation-weapon against us all. Please share this important video with everyone, so the truth about these substances can be known.
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with 'incurable' diabetes switching their diet and getting off insulin.
The film follows each participant's remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this diet and lifestyle change. We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse diabetes* and change lives.
Additional wisdom is provided by Morgan Spurlock, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Robbins, Rev. Michael Beckwith, and Doctors Fred Bisci, Joel Furman, and Gabriel Cousens.
The film follows each participant's remarkable journey and captures the medical, physical, and emotional transformations brought on by this diet and lifestyle change. We witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that diet can reverse diabetes* and change lives.
Additional wisdom is provided by Morgan Spurlock, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Robbins, Rev. Michael Beckwith, and Doctors Fred Bisci, Joel Furman, and Gabriel Cousens.
