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# Tell Congress: Consumers Want the Right to Choose Raw Milk!
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/consumers_want_the_right_to_choose_raw_milk_0211160856/
- Published: 2016-02-11T09:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:30:41.000Z
- Description: The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to back HR 4307 and HR 4308, which would bar the federal government from interfering with interstate raw milk shipments, or with trade between states where sale is already legal. Raw milk is the only food banned in US interstate commerce.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Politics, #vivvo-import

## Tell Congress: Consumers Want the Right to Choose Raw Milk!

The health benefits of raw milk have been widely documented. Yet in many states, farmers and retail stores can’t sell it, and consumers can’t buy it.  
  
It’s time to protect farmers from raw milk raids, and make it legal and easy for consumers to buy raw milk.  
  
[**TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress: Consumers Want the Right to Choose Raw Milk! Ask Your Congress Members to Support HR 4307 and HR 4308.**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xXhVD4tOESACPj9y3nJeX5s%2BRo%2Brrhvf&ref=foodconsumer.org)  
  
Raw milk is the *only* food banned in interstate commerce in the U.S. And although Congress has never passed a ban on raw milk, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has used its regulatory authority to conduct raids on, and prosecute, farmers for distributing raw milk.  
  
**Two bills slowly working their way through Congress would pave the way for farmers and consumers to sell and buy raw milk.**   
  
**The Milk Freedom Act of 2014 (**[**HR 4307**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pH26DKecYfjoSyHz6dDfMps%2BRo%2Brrhvf&ref=foodconsumer.org)**)** would prohibit the federal government from interfering with the interstate traffic of raw milk products, offering relief for small farmers who have been harassed, fined, or prosecuted for distributing raw milk.  
[](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8XoKrtze9YoJB%2F2fs6B9vZs%2BRo%2Brrhvf&ref=foodconsumer.org)**The Interstate Milk Freedom Act of 2014 (**[**HR 4308**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2F3uQXgAp15n%2BGhFasiTQNps%2BRo%2Brrhvf&ref=foodconsumer.org)**)** would prevent the federal government from interfering with trade of unpasteurized natural milk or milk products between states where distribution or sale of such products is already legal.  
  
If we want these bills to gain traction, your Congress Members need to hear from you!   
  
[**TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress: Consumers Want the Right to Choose Raw Milk! Ask Your Congress Members to Support HR 4307 and HR 4308.**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tXZTkXUQlcRcspHjnNcWl5s%2BRo%2Brrhvf&ref=foodconsumer.org)

Thanks!

\- Katherine for the OCA team