Raw milk is one of the most health-giving foods that you can consume.  In short, it's an excellent source of calcium, absorbable whey protein which builds bone and builds Antioxidant levels, many beneficial fats including cancer-fighting CLA, beneficial bacteria, and many vitamins and minerals including vitamin A and E.  When milk is pasteurized it loses much of it's health benefit, and in some ways becomes harmful to health (for more detail see my raw milk page).

A new law goes into effect on January 1st, 2008 that will make it much more difficult to purchase raw milk in California.  The law restricts the amount of coliform bacteria in milk.  Coliform bacteria is a very broad category of bacteria, some of which can make you sick, but many which cannot.  Current law restricts sale of raw milk that contains bacteria that can make you sick--and that makes sense.  The new law restricts all coliform bacteria--even the ones that cause no problems. 

“This new law limits the sale of perfectly healthy, pathogen-free milk,” says Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures Dairy, the largest raw milk dairy in the United States. “Most batches of our milk will not comply with the new legislation. By about January 20th, under the new law, our milk will be available to consumers intermittently at best. Thousands of our customers who visit 300 stores in California each week will be without a source of raw milk.”--from http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1051997

There is something you can do--email tcopley@ziplink.net and add your name to a class action suit against the new law.  I think that if you were to follow the money behind the new law you'd find the dairy industry--for them it's more profitable to make poor quality milk from cows full of growth hormone and antibiotics, pasteurize it to give it a longer shelf life, then sit back and count their money until they die of heart disease.