Raw Milk Rally

"STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Raw milk dairyman Mark MacAfee rallied the sustainable ag community last Saturday, giving the keynote address to end the five-day Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) conference. MacAfee is co-owner of Organic Pastures, near Fresno, California and an outspoken raw milk activist.

PASA president, Brian Snyder, described MacAfee’s personal narrative as one of “perseverance to do what is right.”

For 15 years MacAfee served as a paramedic and assisted thousands of people, sadly watching many of them die. It struck him that many folks died despite “all these pills” he’d notice in their homes.

This experience galvanized him to take a deeper interest in preventative medicine and in 1999 he converted his organic dairy to a raw milk dairy, convinced by customers who approached him for raw milk sales, that there was a both a health benefit to and a market for raw milk."

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