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HEALTH CANADA SUBMISSION
RAW MILK FOR DRINKING
“For years whole food advocates have been cheering
“Rah! Rah!” for raw foods. I used to wonder, what was
the big deal? But after three days of raw eating, I am
now a convert and have been adjusting my shopping
and food preparation habits to integrate raw into my
life permanently.”
- Leanne Terrace, Alive Magazine, August 2002
By The Natural Milk Coalition of Canada
March 19, 2003
INTRODUCTION
As exemplified by the cover page quotation, more and more Canadians are
discovering and adopting a raw foods diet. The media has also discovered it.
Raw foods are typically more nutritious than processed foods, which is certainly
true for raw milk, as presented below. Should any Canadian wish to adopt a raw
foods diet, as is their right and as one of the submitters has done, then raw
drinking milk is usually an important dietary component.
The purpose of this submission is to request Health Canada and by extension
the provincial governments to respond in a positive manner to this growing
consumer initiative and amend the law to permit unregulated direct sales of raw
milk products between producers and consumers and to also implement a
regulated production system for raw drinking milk. Failure to do both exposes the
government to Charter challenges.
To justify our request, this submission will show firstly, that raw drinking milk is
nutritionally superior to processed milk and secondly, that unregulated sales of
raw drinking milk made directly from farmers to educated consumers are safe, as
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