NEWMARKET, Ont. – An Ontario raw milk crusader has been fined more than $9,000 and handed one year of probation for selling and distributing unpasteurized milk.
Michael Schmidt – whose sentence was handed down today in a Newmarket, Ont., court – says he won’t pay the fine and plans an appeal.
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Schmidt had been acquitted in a lower court last year but Justice Peter Tetley overturned most of those acquittals in September.
Schmidt’s Durham, Ont.-area farm was raided in November 2006 by officers from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ontario Provincial Police.
The Health Protection and Promotion Act makes it illegal to sell unpasteurized milk in Canada because it’s considered a health hazard.
It is, however, legal to drink raw milk.
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