Raw Milk Constitutional Challenge Underway in Ontario Court

Dairy farmer and raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt talks to supporters outside court in Newmarket, Ont., on July 31, 2008. Schmidt has been fighting to make raw milk legal in Ontario for about two decades. The Canadian Press/Colin Perkel

Commentary

In 2010, when I first began representing dairy farmer Michael Schmidt in his quest to legalize raw milk sales in Ontario, only 26 states in the United States allowed any form of legal raw milk sales or distribution for human consumption. Today, after 10 years of hard work by consumers, farmers, scientists, and lawyers, that number has increased to 43 states. Another six allow sales of raw milk for use as pet food, but nobody polices who actually consumes it.