This article, written by the Associated Press, hit the digital and analog print on Monday the 28th around the country: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/249853_microdaries26.html

I work and live in Whatcom County, WA and am part of a co-op that obtains fresh milk from our local dairy. While it has been under the radar for the last three years, the dairy is making efforts to get legalized as the article suggests. Bummer is with the legalization, the price nearly doubled. But it is still comparitive to crap milk you purchase at the store. Anyway, the reason for this is not so much for the government (however they can make things difficult), it is to hold off the large corporate giant Darigold (which means the same thing???). Darigold is doing everything it can to keep independent, non-cooperative dairies out of business. This is Edaleen Dairy's issue in Whatcom County (a local independent non-cooperative dairy who sells a lot of milk, ticking off Darigold and their cooperative).

Back to raw fresh milk, the issues have nothing to do with health and E-Coli [as there are more incidents of E-Coli in tainted pastaeurized milk than of fresh raw milk from smaller dairies - read "The Untold Story of Milk"], than it does with Big Business - it has always been the case, and always will. That's why we fight the good fight -to keep our local dairies up and running to provide us with healthy milk and cheese, keeping our economy local and healthy.