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Hella Dee's Blog – October 2011 Archive (1)

Our Most Basic Right -- To Choose What we Eat -- Denied in Canada

Some of you may have been following the case of Michael Schmidt, biodynamic farmer in Ontario who is currently on a hunger strike. I think it is day 19 now....

 

What is he protesting? Our very basic right to decide for ourselves what we put into our own bodies.

 

In both the US and Canada, judges have ruled that we can't drink milk right from our own cows. Canada and the US are marching in-step towards a future where our food is completely controlled by…

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Added by Hella Dee on October 18, 2011 at 5:15pm — No Comments

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