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Board of Directors
FTCLDF and FTCF Board of Directors and Staff
Back Row Left to Right, Judy Bemis, Steve Bemis (FTCLDF), Ted Beals (FTCF), Marc Stimpert, Pete Kennedy (FTCLDF/FTCF) holding son Ryan, Pat Stevens (FTCLDF/FTCF), Taaron Meikle (FTCLDF/FTCF),Tim Wightman (FTCLDF/FTCF). Front row: Peg Beals (FTCF), Cathy Raymond, Babette Lamarre, Gary Cox (FTCLDF/FTCF), Sharon Jeffers (FTCF) and Judith McGeary (FTCLDF/FTCF).
Taaron Meikle - President Taaron Hohman Meikle is a perfect fit with the vision of FTCLDF. Taaron is the fifth generation of a Colorado Ranching and Farming family, whose love for the land and its ample bounty are a heritage. A long time student of nutrition, Taaron follows the teachings of Dr. Weston A. Price. She recalls: "As a toddler, my parents grew increasingly concerned about my lack of speech. At three years of age, during a meal-time prayer, I spoke my first words, "Oh, I see a cow!" The cow, in my grandparent's pasture, was doing what all cows should be doing - eating grass. and providing unaltered, healthy milk. My wish is to make sure that our farmers are free to provide these same benefits to our consumers nationwide." As a homeschooling advocate, Taaron has been educating her four sons for over twelve years. It is her fervent hope that the FTCLDF will positively impact the food practices of the nation in her children's future. It is her joy and challenge to help the FTCLDF move forward.
Peter Kennedy, Esq. -  Vice President
Pete Kennedy is an attorney in Sarasota, Florida who works on dairy issues for the Weston A. Price Foundation, particularly, the right of farmers to distribute raw milk and raw milk products direct to consumers. He has represented or assisted in the representation of dairy farmers facing possible state enforcement action in Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. He has helped farmers get started in the business of distributing raw milk and raw milk products in many other states. He has written articles for Wise Traditions Magazine on the interstate ban on raw milk products for human consumption and on the legality of selling raw milk interstate for animal consumption. He compiled the state raw milk laws and state raw milk summaries posted at www.realmilk.com. He is currently working with others to challenge the federal ban on the interstate shipment of raw milk for human consumption.
Sally Fallon -  Secretary
Sally Fallon, MA, is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), a well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods with a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. She joined forces with Enig again to write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the subject of diet and health. The President of the Weston A. Price Foundation and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, Sally is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community activist. Her four healthy children were raised on whole foods including butter, cream, eggs and meat.
Pat Stevens - Recording Secretary
Pat Stevens serves as Secretary/Treasurer and is a managing partner of The CCI Group, a nationwide consulting and manufacturing company. She served as Secretary for the American Grass-fed Association and is the Community Leader in Harrison and Gregg County for the Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners. She and her husband Ted raise 100% Grass-fed beef utilizing sustainable practices, at their family owned farm (Stevens Creek Ranch) in East Texas. Due to growing health concerns for her family and grandchildren, the search was on for finding the "Truth" about nutrition. While searching for truth on the subject of nutrition, she discovered the research of Dr. Weston A. Price. The Stevens family has embraced nutrient dense whole foods some of which is grown organically on their family farm and shared with others. Raw milk, and raw butter, are family favorites and were originally purchased from a Certified Grade-A Raw Milk Grass-fed dairy that entailed a minimum six hour round trip. Pat currently milks their Grass-fed Red Poll Dual Purpose cows for the family. She and her husband are working on plans for a small certified Grade A dairy. Pat is passionate about the rights of farmers to produce nutrient dense foods sustainably, and the rights of consumers to purchase directly from the farm. It is imperative that we protect our rights to produce and consume farm fresh chemical free food for future generations.
Betty Moore -Secretary
Betty Moore is the Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader for Suffolk County, Long Island, New York since 2005. She has been financial controller for an agricultural business for the last 26 years. In addition to raising her two sons, she is a Certified Holistic Health Counselor. Graduating from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2004, she has gone on to open a private practice counseling clients according to WAPF principals. In addition to private practice she gives cooking classes, lectures, and runs adult ed workshops.
Steve Bemis, Esq.
Steve Bemis is an attorney with a Fortune-200 manufacturing company where he specializes in retirement and benefits law, environmental law and litigation. He and his wife began drinking fresh unprocessed milk over three years ago, and when the Michigan farmer supplying their raw milk was nearly shut down, Steve volunteered to defend him. He took a lead role in negotiating a settlement in the Michigan case, and continues to defend an Indiana Amish farmer who supplies raw milk. He has also assisted in designing and implementing surveys to better understand and communicate the public support for fresh unprocessed milk. A farmer in his spare time, Steve bales hay when he is not restoring or maintaining a couple of old John Deere tractors and other equipment used in hay operation.
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
Kaayla Daniel earned her PhD in Nutritional Sciences and Anti-Aging Therapies from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, is board certified as a clinical nutritionist (CCN) by the International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists in Dallas and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Weston A. Price Foundation. As a clinical nutritionist, she specializes in digestive disorders, women's reproductive health issues, infertility, and recovery from vegetarian and soy-based diets. Dr. Daniel is the author of The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food (New Trends, March 2005), which has been endorsed by leading health professionals, including Kilmer McCully, MD, Doris J. Rapp, MD, Jonathan V. Wright, MD, Russell Blaylock, MD, Larrian Gillespie, MD, Joseph Mercola, OD, Debra Lynn Dadd and others. Larry Dossey, MD, called it "science writing at its best" and William Campbell Douglass, II,MD called it "the most important nutritional book of the decade." Dr. Daniel has been extensively quoted in major newspapers and magazines, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, Toronto Globe & Mail, Glamour, Oxygen and Alternative Medicine, and has appeared as a guest on NPR's People's Pharmacy, the Discovery Channel's Medical Hotseat and ABC's View from the Bay. Online her book has been featured prominently on www.mercola.com, the world's leading natural health and dietary website. She has also appeared as an expert witness before the California Public Safety Committee and the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences.
Judith McGeary, Esq. 
Judith McGeary is the WAPF chapterleader for Austin, Texas. She is also an attorney, a farmer, and the Executive Director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance. The Alliance is a non-profit organization founded to protect the rights of independent farmers, ranchers, and homesteaders, and to help ensure the success of independent agriculture. Ms. McGeary has a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University, a J.D. with high honors from The University of Texas at Austin, and is working on a Masters degree in natural resource management, based on work with compost tea. In her legal career, she has practiced administrative law, litigation, and appeals. She and her husband run a small farm with heritage poultry, sheep, cows, and horses.
Tim Wightman
Tim has been in agriculture all of his life. He has pioneered CSAs, organic cooperatives, farmers' markets, the Cowshare program, Farmshare program, Milk Direct raw milk testing program while living in Northern Wisconsin. Tim now lives in Western Ohio with his wife Carrie and their three children and is currently operating a small raw milk dairy. Tim consults worldwide with dairy farmers on raw milk safety and direct marketing. He also is a consultant for Midwestern Bio-Ag on enhancing the soil system to increase soil fertility issues and herd health management and nutrient density in food and feed.
David G. Cox, Esq. (General Counsel) 
Gary Cox practices environmental and agricultural law with the law firm of Lane, Alton and Horst LLC. Gary served in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the Ohio Attorney General's office for 14 years and prosecuted such Fortune 500 firms as General Motors, BP Chemical, Philips Electronics, Sun Oil Company and AK Steel. Since entering private practice, Gary's clients have included organic farmers and raw milk producers. Gary represented Carol Schmitmeyer in her raw milk victory over the Ohio Department of Agriculture and is currently General Counsel to the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund. Gary lives in Columbus, Ohio with his teenage son and daughter, is an avid gardener, a former organic vegetable farmer, a supporter of local farmers and consumes raw milk and yogurt daily.
Jim Roberts
 Jim Roberts is a Systems Engineer at Electronic Data Systems with a Masters of Science from Purdue University in Computer Science. Jim and his wife are leaders of the WAPF Dayton, OH chapter. He taught science labs in college, undergraduate computer classes at Purdue, and sign language for interpreters and sign choirs in church. His hobby has been photography since high school and was the primary photographer in numerous annuals. When he first encountered the impact of raw milk on individual health he was determined to insure it could be shared on DVD. Since then he has made over 700 educational DVDs and the profits have supported to the legal defense of raw milk farmer's. Encountering all the negative press on raw milk, he developed TheOtherRawMilk.COM web site to clarify the difference between the raw milk developed expressly for human consumption and the raw milk that is selected for industry supported research.
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