Reminder to protect raw milk access

[Guest guest]

Want to promote the cause of raw milk?

 

It's not too late to sign the petition asking Whole Foods to continue selling

raw milk in Florida and wherever it legally can!

 

You can:

 

1. Sign the petition by Sept. 25 , 2009.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/wholefoodsrawmilk

 

2. Call the Whole Foods Florida Grocery Coordinator, Brent King, at

954-489-2118, and tell them you disapprove of their decision not to sell raw

milk in Florida. When calling the Florida office, DO NOT MENTION THAT YOU DRINK

IT YOURSELVES, since it is illegal to sell raw milk for human consumption in

Florida--it may only be sold as pet food. Confine your remarks to economic and

consumer issues like " I

go to Whole Foods weekly to buy raw milk, and then do most of my grocery

shopping while I'm there. If you stop selling raw milk, I'll have no major

incentive to go into your store, " or " Raw milk may legally be sold as pet food

in Florida. Please continue to sell this `whole food' wherever it is legal! " Or

you may remark about its healthful benefits as a pet food.

 

3. Call Whole Foods' National Customer Service Hotline at 512-542-0878. Tell

them you disapprove of their decision not to sell raw milk in Florida. Tell them

that Whole Foods should offer this " whole food " wherever it is legal. Mention

any health benefits you've derived from it, or how much you rely on Whole Foods

to get the best foods possible. Tell them how it might affect your decision not

to shop there.

 

4. Write to Whole Foods' Customer Service Hotline at

customer.questions. Tell them why raw milk is important to you or

why it should be available to the

public. See our Talking Points below or the petition for ideas.

 

5. Post this to the Internet

Post this Action Alert, the petition link, the action phone numbers and email

addresses to everyone you know, and Internet networking groups like

Groups, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn pages, and any of your web pages

and blogs.

 

TALKING POINTS

 

1. Whole Foods' decision to remove raw milk from the marketplace sends the

message that this whole food is not a valuable product worth selling. Many

consumers look to Whole Foods for the " ideal " in nutrition. The absence of raw

milk from the stores sends the wrong message that raw milk is not ideal.

 

2. Although there are raw cow and goat milk dairies in Central and Northern

Florida, they are too far from Southeast Florida. The closest raw cow milk dairy

to Key West is 460 miles away, and the closest raw goat milk dairy is 235 miles

away. The raw cow milk dairy to Miami is 300 miles away, and the closest raw

goat milk dairy is 130 miles away. These great distances make it impractical for

consumers to obtain raw milk directly from dairies on a regular basis. Whole

Foods brings this vital product to within a few miles of the consumer.

 

3. Removing raw milk from Whole Foods stores creates a financial hardship for

average folks who would otherwise have to get it shipped in from afar. For

practical purposes, the removal of raw milk from Whole Foods relegates raw milk

to a purchase for only the wealthy.

 

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Thank you again, for your consideration of this important matter. We wish to

influence Whole Foods, by any means possible, to reconsider its decision to ban

raw milk in its Florida stores on Sept 30.

 

Thank you,

Wendy Mathias

Founder, MiamiRealFood.org