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Letter To Premier McGuinty |
Nov. 29
Dear Mr. McGuinty,
Your statement, "If you want to engage in the mass distribution of milk to millions of children and Ontario families on a daily basis, the very best and safest way to do that is to ensure that it's pasteurized," has little to do with Michael Schmidt's case. Greg Sorbara may have expressed his own support for widespread distribution but it is not the issue. Ontario's abusive restrictions on a whole-foods activist is. He is not forcing school children to smoke tobacco, a perfectly legal substance that kills millions of North Americans each year, he is offering whole milk to select well-informed families, his shareholders, who like his products and who probably take on considerably more risk driving to his farm than they do drinking milk from his cows.
You also suggest that, because the ban on raw milk is old, it should stay. Clearly, this is failed logic. A public health law established in 1938 deserves to be reexamined. The validity of public health laws in the face of scientific development and social change must always be questioned.
Regardless of whether mass distribution of raw milk flummoxes you or not, or whether you believe laws to be virtuous based on their age or not, persecution of Michael Schmidt should stop and the government should review laws that restrict well-informed consumers from making their own choices. The issue deserves reexamination eventhough it is something you have personally never considered.
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