Michael Schmidt, Ontario raw dairy farmer
Michael Schmidt, Ontario raw dairy farmer, has been on a hunger strike for 23 days. The government has made it illegal for him to produce and sell raw milk. He is subsisting on nothing but water. His only request is a meeting with Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.
Michael says he is willing to die for this. We can’t let that happen!
Let’s take action NOW to help. This is a life and death matter. Please do everything you can!
10 Ways to Help Michael Schmidt
1. Join Our Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/groups/252024518183380/
Follow the link and click the Join button at the top right. (It’s not super obvious so if you have any trouble, comment below and I’ll walk you through.)
Join the Facebook group
2. Add Your Friends to the Facebook Group
Once you’ve been added, add your friends and fellow raw milk supporters to the group. http://www.facebook.com/groups/252024518183380/
Just click the +Add Friends to this Group button at the top right and add everyone you know who loves raw milk.
3. Change your Facebook Profile Picture to a Picture of Michael Schmidt
When you change your profile photo, people see it in Facebook feed updates.
Change your photo to Michael Schmidt and post on your wall about why you are changing your profile photo — in solidarity with Michael Schmidt.
Ask your friends and fellow raw milk supporters to change theirs profile pictures, too.
Look at all those pictures of Michael popping up!
Got Freedom? This makes a great Facebook icon
When you change your photo, it shows up in the Facebook feed
You can grab photos of Michael from the Raw Milk Facebook page
4. Email Dalton McGuinty
Michael’s one request is a meeting with him and this will END the hunger strike:
Here’s an online form you can use — it’s so easy! I’m committing to emailing him every day until the hunger strike ends.
https://correspondence.premier.gov.on.ca/en/feedback/feedback.aspx
Or you can use this email address: dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org.
Consider emailing him every day, and more than once a day if possible.
5. Tweet Dalton McGuinty
We tried posting on Dalton McGuinty’s Facebook page but all of our comments have been deleted and we have been blocked from the page. Nice, eh?
So Twitter is the best option. They can delete our Facebook comments but they cannot delete our tweets!
I tweet daily and retweet all tweets about Dalton McGuinty, raw milk and Michael Schmidt.
Click here to send him a tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/Dalton_McGuinty
Click here to see what other people are tweeting to Dalton McGuinty: http://twitter.com/#!/search/dalton_mcguinty
Add #rawmilk and Please Retweet on your tweets.
Also please RETWEET any tweets you see about #rawmilk and Dalton_McGuinty. Go to my Twitter page — I’m retweeting everybody — and just hit the RETWEET button on all relevant posts.
6. Call Dalton McGuinty
416-325-1941
Get him on your speed dial. I’m committed to calling every day starting on Monday (you can’t call on weekends — they don’t have voice mail set up).
7. Fax Dalton McGuinty
(416) 325-3745
Don’t just fax once day. Fax multiple times per day. Imagine how annoying it will be to get piles of faxes every day from all around the world.
If you don’t have a fax machine, sign up for http://faxzero.com/ It’s free!
I haven’t started faxing yet but I am going to start sending daily faxes today.
8. Write Letters to Dalton McGuinty
Premier Dalton McGuinty
Roon 281, Main Legislative Building, Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1A1
The clock is ticking so you may want to send your letters FedEx.
If you live in Canada, maybe you could mail him empty milk bottles, or drop by his office and leave them for him with a message asking him to meet with Michael Schmidt.
9. Do a Raw Milk Fast This Tuesday
Join us on Tuesday for a raw milk fast in solidarity with Michael:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=239117019478021
If you don’t have access to raw milk or can’t fast for health reasons, sign up anyway and ask your friends on Facebook to join us.
Join the Raw Milk Fast This Tuesday!
10. Write Letters, Call and Fax Other Representatives
Deborah Matthews, Minister of Health and Long-term Care
dmatthews.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
10 th Floor, Hepburn Block
80 Grosvenor Street
Toronto, Ontario M7A 2C4
Tel.: 416-327-4300
Fax: 416-327-3679
Margarett Best, Minister of Health Promotion
mbest.mpp@liberal.ola.org
8 th Floor, 777 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1S5
Tel.: 416-326-8500
Fax: 416-326-8520
Linda Jeffrey, Minister of Natural Resources
(e-mail address not listed on website)
Suite 6630, 6 th Floor, Whitney Block
99 Wellesley Street West
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1W3
Tel.: 416-314-2301
Fax: 416-325-5316
Federal Cabinet Ministers:
Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health
leona.aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Tel.: 867-979-4193
Fax: 867-979-4196
Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
gerry.ritz@parl.gc.ca
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Tel.: 306-445-2004
Fax: 306-445-0207
More Ways to Support Michael Schmidt
http://www.westonaprice.org/2011-action-alerts/urgent-raw-milk-action-alert-mobilizing-against-government-interference
Photo credit: Toronto Star
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Thank YOU for providing so much support to us Canadians! We CAN win this fight for food freedom!
Real food will prevail! Everyone, please keep Michael Schmidt in your prayers!
yes, Ann Marie, thank you so much for providing soo much support for us Canadians!!!!
God bless and thank you so much Ann Marie for your action steps and concern for those of us to the north!
This is so concise and helpful! Thanks for putting this together Ann Marie! I’ll send this link out to everyone I know.
What are our freedoms worth to us? Worth dying for? I say yes. And I say yes to Mr. Schmidt. You’re fighting the good fight for all of us. I will be joining you on Tuesday.
very good work – thanks so much
I just emailed Dalton McGuinty. Thanks for letting us know about this!
if you are finding that Dalton McGuinty’s public page has disallowed you to post on “his” wall, you can send him a personal message on his personal page here: https://www.facebook.com/dalton.mcguinty
Ann Marie, it’s so useful to have all this in one place. This list is brilliant. Just a suggestion: post the link and/or the list a few times a day on the Support FB page, so people don’t have to scroll through to find all the bits and pieces. GREAT WORK, thank you for all you’re doing, putting your brilliant marketing and promotion skills to work for this cause!!
xo Mary
Good idea, Mary!
My support is fully with you, it is silly for the govt to ban
Hey Ann Marie,
I’ve been checking the Michael Schmidt fb page everyday and emailing McGuinty daily as well. It looks like he has turned a deaf ear to the whole thing. I think our govt turns a deaf ear as well. The only way to get our food freedom is to get these people out of office.
Love this and shared in my post http://www.lifefromscratch.ca/raw-milk-michael-schmidt-and-your-food-freedom/
Thanks.
What a courageous! man…God bless you, and grant you freedom from
the shackles of pseudo science and its cohorst, who destroying
our way of life…the creator gave us these things (i.e. raw milk/butter/cheese)
as a natural and pure form of sustenance…shame on ‘institutions’ for putting
‘profit before people’!…yet what they fail to do for another, they fail to do
for themselves.
My research indicates Margarett Best is Minister of Consumer Services. Please double check and correct info if needed.
I sent this email (with photos) to all MPs and MPPs suggested:
While travelling in Switzerland last year, my wife and I noticed a farm that had a stainless steel milk dispenser that served cold raw milk. It was so fresh and cold we could not stop gulping it until it was gone. It tasted complete, as if nothing had been removed by processing which, of course, it hadn’t. We had never had, nor have ever had since, such deliciously whole milk in our lives. I can only hope that all Canadians will soon be able to experience the same fresh, cold, wholesome, delicious milk here in Ontario.
The question is, if it can be done safely in Switzerland, what is preventing it from being done safely here in Ontario?
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