Lots of Americans are milk drinkers. How many of us think that the typical American day starts out with a glass of milk, or perhaps some milk and cereal. I feel like an exception to American culture. While I'm not lactose intolerant, I've never been a fan of milk. It's flavorless to me; I prefer my milk to come in cheese form.

I'm accepting of other people drinking milk, that's their choice. But some radicals like their milk raw; they claim it is better for you and tastes better. Maybe that's why all milk tastes flavorless to me. Because of their raw preferences they risk persecution by the state. And so the Campaign for Real Milk was born.

Back in the 20s, Americans could buy fresh raw whole milk, real clabber and buttermilk, luscious naturally yellow butter, fresh farm cheeses and cream in various colors and thicknesses. Today's milk is accused of causing everything from allergies to heart disease to cancer, but when Americans could buy Real Milk, these diseases were rare. In fact, a supply of high quality dairy products was considered vital to American security and the economic well being of the nation.

What's needed today is a return to humane, non-toxic, pasture-based dairying and small-scale traditional processing.

Like most aspects of agricultural and public health regulation, laws requiring the pasteurization of milk are built on false assumptions about how our food is produced. Within the framework of dirty industrial agriculture, pasteurization may make a lot of sense. But applying them to small-scale traditional styles of agriculture is like putting a square peg into a round hole. It burdens the small operation with additional fixed costs and effectively ruins their one advantage over industrial milk: quality.

For more on the struggles of small farmers in the face of government statism, check out a new book by the "Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-lunatic farmer" Joel Salatin called "Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal."