10 Ways to Support Raw Dairy Farmer, Michael Schmidt

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!

Michael Schmidt, Ontario raw dairy farmer

10 Ways to Help Michael Schmidt

1. Join Our Facebook Group

https://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. https://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: https://twitter.com/#!/Dalton_McGuinty

Click here to see what other people are tweeting to Dalton McGuinty: https://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 https://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:

https://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

https://www.westonaprice.org/2011-action-alerts/urgent-raw-milk-action-alert-mobilizing-against-government-interference

Photo credit: Toronto Star