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Saturday News Briefs
Central Valley Business Times
Raw milk products produced by Organic Pastures of Fresno County have been released from a statewide quarantine that began May 10, the California Department of Food and Agriculture says. CDFA imposed the quarantine in response to the detection of

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Love of the land and animals help Lorrie and Shaun Conway build their farm
OregonLive.com
They sell raw goat milk to about a hundred customers for $5 a half gallon, but that's the least of what they do from their five-acre sustainable farm next to Silver Star Mountain, north of Camas. Lorrie and Shaun Conway have spent 22 years building

St. Paul woman works hard to produce raw milk that is safe
OregonLive.com
This month her enthusiasm bumped up against worry over a raw milk outbreak in Oregon that sickened at least 19 people, including four children who've been hospitalized with acute kidney failure. Though it had nothing to do with her farm, she fears the

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Out of the dark
WA today
"You can't escape yourself or your demons." From the guest house over the road one day, she wrote an email home. It was, she says, like the raw rantings of someone between heaven and hell. "I was questioning everything and even questioning my own

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Food FYI: 'Raw milk has become the new pot'
Los Angeles Times
The New Yorker explores the feds' battle against raw milk, delving into the raid of Venice food co-op and raw-milk purveyor Rawsome. Among other advocates, Vincent Gallo shares his two cents. In The Times, a family follows a 1927 guide to coffeehouses