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> >What was the change in NC? Cow shares are legal?

Tennessee.

I don't know about NC.

Here the Dept of Ag hotly persecuted any and all who dealt in raw milk.  
When the proponents tried the ploy of selling milk as pet food, the DoAg 
railroaded legislation that required the milk to be dyed blue and required a 
state pet food license which they also made nearly impossible to get.

But last year the Tennessee Code Annotated's Byzantine dairy laws were 
modified with the following:

"Nothing in this part or any other provision of law shall be construed as
prohibiting the independent or partial owner of any hoofed mammal from 
using the milk from such animal for the owner's personal consumption or other 
personal use. "

Slam dunk!  "Nothing ... shall be constured ..." is a deadly powerful legal 
formula that effectively cuts off the gonads of the Dept of Ag and tells 
them 'hands off and stand back ... a long way."

"Partial" owner means cow share, and what is even nicer is that since the 
user is the owner, the actual caretaker (farmer) assumes no liability.

Tennessee is a sucker for prohibitive guild laws ... but fortunately it is 
also a prone to neutralize them when you can flavor the legislation with the 
notion of personal freedom.

That makes 34 states now with feasible raw milk provisions.</HTML>