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Food Rights Hour
Episode 8: NFU Endorses Raw Milk 
National Farmers Union Endorses Raw Milk
Podcast Originally Released on April 10, 2013
With host Kimberly Hartke
     
Episode 8 of the Food Rights Hour podcast highlights the National Farmers Union's endorsement of raw milk. During this episode by host Kimberly Hartke, you'll hear from these five guests about the National Farmers Union's (NFU) decision to endorse raw milk: 
  1. Hannah Smith-Brubaker, interim director for the Pennsylvania Farmers Union and a delegate of NFU;   
  2. Richard R. Oswald, a farmer, advocate for farmer rights and president of the Missouri Farmers Union; 
  3. David Gumpert, journalist and writer, most widely known for his popular blog, The Complete Patient; 
  4. Mark McAfee, founder and CEO of Organic Pastures Dairy and president of the Raw Milk Institute; and 
  5. Danielle Nierenberg, co-founder of Food Tank, a new food policy think tank, and an expert on sustainable agriculture and food issues.

What does NFU's decision mean for the future of raw milk?  

 

What do two delegates for the NFU, Hannah Smith-Brubaker and Richard R. Oswald, have to say in response to NFU's recent endorsement?  

 

What is the American Farm Bureau's take on raw milk?  

 

How did Mark McAfee help convince the NFU to endorse raw milk?  

 

Does the new food think tank, Food Tank, have a stance on raw versus pasteurized milk?  

 

Listen to the podcast to find out! 

    

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 Guests  
David Gumpert brown
David Gumpert of
The Complete Patient
Hannah Smith-Brubaker
Hannah Smith-Brubaker, delegate for the National Farmers Union
Listen to the podcast to hear these guests and more discuss the National Farmers Union's decision to endorse raw milk.
Podcast Host 

   

Kimberly Hartke
Podcast Host

 

Kimberly Hartke is the publicist for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and The Weston A. Price Foundation.  

She blogs about food politics at Hartkeisonline.com and the raw milk issue at The Campaign for Real Milk.

 

 

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