Here is the complete verdict: http://foodrightsalliance.ca/regina_v_schmidt.pdf
Americans tend to view Canada as a socialist version of the United States, what with its universal health care system and high taxes. In this view, its the U.S. that epitomizes individual rights and capitalist opportunity. Yet it took a Canadian Justice of the Peace Tursday to provide the strongest affirmation yet of individual food rights via its ruling in favor of raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt. The Ontario Justice of the Peace, Paul Kowarsky, stepped into a void left by the failure of American judges in New York, California, Maryland, and Pennsylvania to show anything near the Canadian Justice of the Peaces backbone and legal sophistication in ruling on consumer rights with regard to raw milk.
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