Greetings Bay Area WAPF folks,

I am writing to update you about the lawsuit that is being filed this 
week on behalf of consumers of raw milk in California to challenge the 
constitutionality of AB 1735, the law signed by the Governor at the 
end of last year that dramatically changes the testing protocols of 
raw milk in CA in a way that is likely to put the producers out of 
business. Myself and some friends pooled our resources and hired the 
public interest law firm of Gross Belsky in SF to file the suit, and 
we built the website www.saverawmilk.org to let you sign our petition, 
read about raw milk organizing in CA, and make donations.

Our suit is different than the one being filed through the WAP 
associated Farm to Consumer Legal Defense. That suit is on behalf of 
the PRODUCERS, while ours is a CONSUMER lawsuit. Despite the 
frustrations you have read in emails from Sally Fallon and Aajonus 
Vonderplainitz, the latter who has contributed funding and work to the 
saverawmilk.org suit, I am really trying to build coalition and get 
everyone to work together. Both producers are in communication with 
us about our suit and the legal teams are also in communication. We 
all agree that having several suits filed only strengthens our chances 
of protecting our right to food choice in California.

Many hundreds of people have signed our online petition and donated 
money. We now need to find the following specific types of plaintiffs:

1. a person who wants to drink raw milk for personal reasons (such 
as bodily integrity, believing foods should be in their natural state, 
etc.)
this type of plaintiff should not be too hard to find.

2. a person whose doctor has told him or her not to drink 
pasteurized milk, but only raw milk.
(this type of plaintiff will be much stronger than one who, 
without medical advice, has problems drinking pasteurized milk and has 
decided to drink raw milk. if they are doing it on medical advice, 
then there should be some medical record documenting the issue. 
before we include them as a plaintiff of this type, we will need to 
investigate a little, perhaps get a release from them so their doctor 
can talk to us and confirm his diagnosis and instruction.)

3. we could also have a person who drinks raw milk for medical 
reasons, but has not been directed by a doctor to drink raw milk.

4. a person whose religion has dietary principles, and one of those 
principles is to drink raw milk. we would need some documentation as 
to the religion and its beliefs: for example, any writings or codes 
of the religion which describe the dietary principles. as i assume 
this will be a small non-traditional religion, we should also know 
something about its history, the number of adherents or parishioners, 
etc.

We would like at least one of these plaintiffs to be a San Francisco 
resident.

Please help us find plaintiffs of the above description for the suit. 
We are almost ready to file. Please visit www.saverawmilk.org for 
more information. If you would like to be a plaintiff, please email terry@grossbelsky.com 
.

Thank you,
Theo Copley