Support food freedom

toronto_ru — 20.10.2011 Возможно, вы слышали про историю Онтарийского фермера, который пытался сделать Онтарио первой провинцией, в которой легализована продажа сырого молока.
После затяжного судебного процесса, фермер был признан виновным по 19 пунктам и приговорен к уплате штрафа.
Дело было заведено не потому, что кто-то пострадал от молока (Майкл продает сырое молоко уже более 10 лет), а потому, что продажа данного молока даже через каушеринг является полулегальным занятием.
Как признался судья, ведущий этот процесс - если бы он и стал когда-нибудь пить сырое молоко, то его выбор пал бы на ферму Майкла.
В качестве протеста Майкл объявил голодную забастовку - он голодает уже 19 дней.

Те, кому не безразлична свобода выбора в вопросах еды, пожалуйста, сделайте так, чтобы вас услышали.

http://www.change.org/petitions/government-of-canada-support-food-freedom - петиция Government of Canada: Support food freedom



Больше информации об истории Майкла можно прочесть по ссылке: http://thebovine.wordpress.com/

Письмо от хозяйки нашей фермы:
Please help influence the politicians so Michael can end his hunger strike. Today is day 19 with no food....30lbs lost and becoming weak and tired.
I know that many of you are writing letters to McGuinty at the moment, or already have done.
Please take a few moments and send this message to McGuinty direct today via his website.

https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/en/feedback/feedback.aspx

“Premier McGuinty. I respectfully ask you to meet with Michael Schmidt as soon as possible and engage a dialogue on the issues of the right of Canadian citizens to decide what food they eat. Michael is on the 19th day of his hunger strike today. This is a very urgent matter. I thank you for your consideration”

Once you have done that, please also make a donation of at least $25 to Michael’s appeal, which is being carried out entirely free of charge to him by the Canadian Constitution Foundation. Their home page is here, and you can follow the links to donate online: http://www.canadianconstitutionfoundation.ca/ They are a registered charity and will provide tax receipts for donations.

Please forward this to your address books – today is the day to put pressure on McGuinty.


Письмо Майкла:

Dalton McGuinty, Premier
Legislative Building
Queen's Park
Toronto ON M7A 1A1


18th October 2011


Premier of Ontario, Honorable Dalton McGuinty,


Choice is something that is inherent in our national identity.

People come to this country from all around the world because Canada is a place of liberty, and these are the values we hold most dear.

Yet, despite this, I have been fighting since 1994 for the right of men, women and children in Canada to be able to make the simplest and most important of all choices - what they eat.

Over the last 17 years I have made every effort to engage the authorities in a constructive dialogue about the issue of non-pasteurized milk in Ontario and Canada. In return my farm has been raided by armed officers, my family has been terrorized and I been dragged through the courts – first being acquitted and then being found guilty.

Today, farmers like me in Ontario and around the country are scared. We are scared that people with guns who claim to be acting in our best interests will snatch our livelihoods from us. We are scared that we will be tried for the "crime" of believing that informed consumers and citizens in our free country should be able to choose what they eat and drink.

This is why, on September 29th, I began my hunger strike.

Today is day 19 without food. And whilst I am suffering and my body is weakening by the hour, I am resolutely determined that this will be the final chapter of this 17-year fight.

The right to buy food direct from a farmer is as old as our country. Yet, today, that right is being taken away from Canadians by a government that insists that only corporate Canada be responsible for feeding our citizens.



I respectfully call on you, Premier McGuinty, to meet with me in person, as soon as possible, to find a way of ensuring that this right is respected and that the government renounces in taking away the most fundamental of all our rights – that to choose what we eat.

The end of my hunger strike is dependent on it.

I am very hopeful that we will be able to resolve this issue, once and for all, by working together in an open and constructive way and I very much hope that the opportunity to do so comes soon.

Yours respectfully


Michael Schmidt

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