[BCFSN] Sept 11: For the Love of Farm Fresh Milk - Talk with Mark MacAfee from the Raw Milk Institute of California

[Sara Dent]

Dear Friends, Farmers and Food Advocates,

Please help us spread the word about this upcoming talk!

British Columbia Herdshare Association presents:

For the Love of Farm-Fresh Milk!

Free public presentation with Mark McAfee, spokesperson for the Raw Milk
Institute in California. RAWMI is committed to being the most-trusted source
of information for and about the raw dairy industry.

Date & Time:
8:00pm to 9:30pm, Doors at 7:30
Thursday, September 11th, 2014

Location: 
Melville Centre Conference Room, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond
Campus
8771 Lansdowne Road
Richmond, B.C.
Doors at 7:30pm, Talk at 8pm.

Description:
Whether you¹re a dairy farmer looking for help in producing the highest
quality product, a consumer trying to make an informed decision about this
important source of nutrients, or a legislator or regulator building your
knowledge of the raw milk industry Š you¹ve come to the right place.

The talk will include:

- Current legal issues surrounding raw milk in BC
- Raw milk best practices on the farm
- Testing systems, protocols, and results
- How to simplify raw milk safety to a very reliable and consistent science
­ with data to prove it
- History of raw milk
- Nutrition of raw milk
- What RAWMI can do for farmers
- Changes that occur in pasteurization and processing
- What American and European raw milk systems and practices show us
- and, plenty of Q&A with Mark

Speaker Biography: 
Mark McAfee, spokesperson for the Raw Milk Institute(RAWMI) in California,
is the founder and CEO of Organic Pastures Dairy in Fresno, California,
which is on their 4th generation family farm and distributes raw dairy
products in over 600 stores in California. Mark is internationally
recognized as an expert in raw milk safety and production, having headed a
team which developed and published the first international raw milk
production and safety standards. He has spoken at Rutgers and Stanford
University Medical Schools and has been an expert witness in legislative and
judicial proceedings across America.

Sponsored by:
Young Agrarians, KPU Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems and Slow Food
Vancouver.

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Sara Dent
Young Agrarians Coordinator
778-968-5518

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