Many readers have emailed us with concerns regarding GE feeding of cattle in many states (particularly Victoria). As we know, the feeding practices of the cow will be transferred into the milk that WE are drinking!!

So here’s how to make a difference!
Please ask your local council to be GM-free. Gene Ethics will supply a petition tailored for your area and a 2 page briefing. Please email them  by following this link with the name of your council and your personal contact details.

Many councils are also making their meals on wheels, creches and other food services GM-free, and taking various other GM-free actions. These are all important to turning the tide on the few hectares of GM canola grown this year.

Together, we can still win a GM-free future. Please take positive action for GM-free in your local community.

Council meeting at Leongatha
7pm, Wednesday 15th October 2008.

REGARDING:
* The Advantages and Disadvantages of Declaring the Shire a GM-Crop-Free
Area
* GM labelling deficiencies

Following this, a report will be made:
The report will include recommendations. The Council may adopt the recommendations, change
them or add to them, and may either vote on the
recommendations that evening, or vote to defer the vote. There will be some form of resolution
made at that meeting.
There will be opportunities for members of the public to make verbal submissions at the
meeting on 15/10.
* Aim for 3 minutes speaking-length only *
ONCE AGAIN, FACES COUNT. PLEASE ATTEND IF YOU CAN.
We’ll do our best to organise some food, depending on the timing of the item in the meeting
agenda.
The report will be available on the Council website:  from Friday 10th October

The processed milk outbreak in China has been unbelievable - could it really be possible that food products that are so highly regulated could cause such massive problems?

Now we see that zoo animals are also being affected…

This whole issue is highly relevant to us real-milkers. Real milk, straight from the farm, let’s us control our milk supply AND understand where our food comes from..
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Tainted milk scare spreads to zoo
Article from: NEWS.com.au, September 26, 2008 05:53am

HAND-reared zoo animals in China are the latest victims of the baby milk powder scandal, the Associated Press reports.

A lion cub and two baby orangutans have developed kidney stones after been fed formula tainted with the chemical melamine.

AP said the animals from the Hangzhou Safari Park near Shanghai were sent to the Hangzhou Zhangxu Animal Hospital for checks by staff concerned by reports on the human impact of the contamination scandal.

Veterinarian Zhang Xu said the affected animals had been nursed with milk powder for more than a year.