Third Annual Raw Milk Symposium

SPEAKERS

		Ted Beals, M.S., M.D. is retired from the University of Michigan Medical School and VA Health Administration. A pathologist, teacher, researcher, and administrator with personal interest in dairy testing and safety of milk, he has been presenting testimony on dairy safety in North America for the last several years. He and his wife Peggy Beals live on 40 acres in south-central Michigan. They are members of the Michigan Fresh Unprocessed Whole Milk Workgroup.

		David E. Gumpert specializes in reporting and writing about health and food issues. He writes for a number of publications, including BusinessWeek.com and Grist.org. He is author of The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Struggle Over Food Rights. He also writes the popular blog, The Complete Patient, which over the last four years has aggressively covered a number of health and regulatory issues. His prior book was about his family’s experiences during the Holocaust: Inge: A Girl’s Journey Through Nazi Europe. He has also authored or co-authored seven books on various aspects of small business. Prior to his book-writing and entrepreneurship career, he spent nine years as a staff reporter with The Wall Street Journal and seven years as a small business editor of the Harvard Business Review. He was also a senior editor of Inc. Magazine. His bachelor’s degree is in political science from the University of Chicago, and his master’s degree in journalism is from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

		Pete Kennedy, Esq. is an attorney in Sarasota, Florida and serves as the president of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and vice president of the Farm-to-Consumer Foundation. Prior to and since the founding of these organizations, Pete has worked on raw dairy issues in various States as well as other food distribution aspects including extensive reviews of legislation, particularly food safety and raw milk bills. He is also provides instruction on the legal aspects for Cow-Share College & Goat-Share University.

		Sally Fallon Morell, M.A. is the author of the best-selling cookbook Nourishing Traditions. She serves as founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit nutrition education foundation. She is also founder of A Campaign for Real Milk; in this capacity she has campaigned for consumer access to whole unprocessed milk from pasture-fed cows, Nature’s perfect food.

		Sylvia P. Onusic, Ph.D. is a nutritionist and writer/journalist working in the area of traditional and whole foods. She holds a B.S in home economics, foods and nutrition education, and is a certified teacher in the State of Pennsylvania. She completed the M.S. in the field of Healthy Administration and Policy, and PhD in Public Health Education. She has completed dietetic studies at Penn State University. Sylvia was a Fulbrighter to the Republic of Slovenia in the field of Public Health and completed her research while working at the National Institute of Public Health of Slovenia. At the conclusion of the Fulbright she was employed at the Ministry of Health in Ljubljana for six years in the field of International Cooperation. Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004 and in 2008 held the Presidency. Sylvia has taught at the university and high school level and worked for the US Army in Berlin as a German linguist. She visits Europe often and visited Poland on a food tour for several weeks in September 2009.

		Greg Schmidt is currently President of the Minnesota Natural Health Legal Reform Project (www.mnhlrp.org). He has also been Vice President and was a co-founder of the organization in 1997. MNHLRP is a consumer based, 501c4 advocacy group for natural health. The Food Freedom Project and Minnesota Moms for Raw Milk are initiatives of MNHLRP. Greg has been self-employed as a carpenter since 1997. Previously he was co-owner of Silver Bullet Design Build. He has an M.F.A from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.

		Michael Schmidt has been a biodynamic farmer for over 33 years, with a masters degree in agriculture. Born in Germany, he came to Canada in 1983 and has been instrumental in massive changes towards the awareness of the cultural importance of agriculture. He was recently vindicated of all charges in his fierce, 16-year battle to legalize raw milk in Canada. A scholar of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, he continuously promotes and urges others to adopt civil disobedience and the non-violent approach in court and daily life. In light of the significance of the food rights battle, he helps farmers and consumer to be fully prepared to make real sacrifices in order to win this crucial rights battle for the sake of our children. Visit Michael's Glencolton Farms website.

		Catherine Shanahan, M.D. trained at Cornell University's Molecular Biology program where she learned how nutrients direct physiologic growth. She has continued to study nutrition since Family and Community residency training in Tucson, AZ, and has studied ethnobotany at the National Tropical Botanic Garden in Kauai. Dr. Shanahan is author of two books: Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food and Food Rules: A Doctor's Guide to Healthy Eating, and she has been featured in numerous publications including Better Homes and Gardens, Consumer's Digest, and Alternet.org. Her lectures have revolutionized how fellow medical professionals think about nutrients and health, and in 2010 she was recruited from Hawaii to spearhead a new program using medical nutrition instead of drugs as a primary modality to help patients suffering from a variety of chronic diseases. She is currently working with Dartmouth-Hitchock and Catholic Medical Center in Bedford, NH.

		Alan Watson is a health and nutrition researcher and author of 21 Days to a Healthy Heart (since 2002) and Cereal Killer (since 2008), books which unequivocally recommend raw milk as legal food and medicine. (Trans-fat-laden yellow vegetable grease should be illegal.)

		Tim Wightman has been in agriculture all of his life. He has pioneered CSAs, organic cooperatives, farmers' markets, the Cow-share program, Farm-share program, Milk Direct raw milk testing program while living in Northern Wisconsin. Tim consults worldwide with dairy farmers on raw milk safety and direct marketing. He is an instructor in Cow-Share College & Goat-Share University and the author of the “Raw Milk Handbook". His new "From Grass to the Glass - Chore Time" DVD instructs farmers in raw milk production.

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