Re: Message submitted to Governor Dayton

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Did anyone follow up on this invitation to the Governor, or to the

excellent letter Judith wrote him?

In light of the Citizens United decision and the huge flow of corporate

money into politics, it would be an excellent time to bring up the issue

of money flowing from the dairy and food industry into the Government

agencies and those above them with the intention of removing every

source of competition from small businesses that threaten their

monopoly.

We need to address the issues at the source of the funding and not keep

playing their so called health issues card. No one wants to discuss the

money and monopoly issue because it is what is really behind the

harassment. I tried talking to a reporter, who walked up to us and

started the conversation, and as soon as it turned to the source of the

money and the control of the profits and markets, he actually turned

away and looked around for something else.

I am sure that will never make it into his story. He only wanted to

talk about the health issues. It is a complete distraction and is being

successfully played out in the national views as well. Look at the

silent crackdown that is happening to the occupy food movement largely

aimed at Monsanto's monopoly of seeds.

Raw milk is the key player in the monopoly of our food system, as they

already have the monopoly won and they only need to protect it. Since

most dairy farmers don't even break even, the owners of large food

companies have successfully created a raw material that they do not have

to pay anything for the labor to create it. This is not a minimum wage

issue it is a No wage issue. There are billions of dollars at stake

here. That is why all the key food industries, along with the dairy

industry got to Doyle in WI: Cheese makers, Grocery stores, Pizza

makers, even Kwik Trip (if you don't go into the store for milk, you

won't buy all the other junk there).

At what price do the corporations win everything? You see the result

with milk, they are moving in on the rest of the food hoping for the

same result. The `health issue' is their tool, they need

periodic `outbreaks' like the planted one in Racine, WI to push

their fear weapon against Democracy and true Market freedom which would

devastate their profits. Who fights the hardest in the capital to

influence the legislators? Not Doctors, it's the richly paid dairy

and food Industry lobbyist.

The vast majority of small dairy farms are now out of business, their

market share taken over by industrialized pseudo-milk. We need to get

to the real issues before it is too late and our fight over the

`health issues' will be moot, as there will be no more

non-industrial dairies, or as in WI, it will not even be legal (through

regulations) to drink the milk from your own cow/goat/sheep, even if you

are lucky enough/rich enough/daring enough to own your own.

Don't let them `divide and conquer'! Left and right,

Tea-partiers and Occupiers, Farmers and Consumers, Health Advocates on

all sides, unite and fight (on any platform you believe in) this buyout

of our government and takeover of our food!

~Jan

Bella Sol Tierra

Bravo! Let's

ALL follow suit! Let our voices be heard often. Beth

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