About Us
CADA is a collective of Canadian consumers who want to see Canada’s outdated ban on raw milk lifted. Living in the only G7 nation where raw milk cannot be sold legally, we advocate for safe, healthy access to raw milk through appropriate regulation and inspection. We support family farms that nurture their land and livestock to produce top-quality milk. We demand consumer choice!
Board Of Directors
Carolyn Johnson
Chair
Mother; farmer’s granddaughter; teacher; novelist; website copy writer; Vespa enthusiast.
Eva Kralits
Treasurer & Advocacy Lead
Immigrant from Austria where farm families thrive & produce ethical, high quality food for local consumers; CPA; Risk & Compliance Specialist; nature lover.
Kim Trudeau
Director & Ontario Lead
Mother; teacher; farmhand; living seasonally & sustainably; passionate supporter of local regenerative farmers.
Golda David
Director & Alberta Lead
Unschooling mother; homeschool facilitator; author; cheesemaker; owner of DemystifyingEducation
Stephen Magee
Director & Volunteer Lead
Card and board game enthusiast; history buff; avid reader; personal health devotee; philomath.
Donna Costa
Board Secretary
Author; Weston A Price Foundation member; retired holistic nutritionist and homeopath.
Volunteers
Jaki Ayton
Volunteer
Dairy goat farmer; public health adinistrator; Secretary, BC Goat Assoc.; Treasurer, Vancouver Island Goat Assoc.
Kristian Clinton
Digital Communications & I.T. Manager
eCommerce & I.T. specialist; dog parent; local food and Made-in-Canada supporter; family of Weston A. Price Kingston chapter founders.
Advisors
Mark McAfee
Expertise:
Production of raw milk and raw milk products; the largest raw milk farm in USA — 950 cows, 42,000 gallons of raw milk weekly, 3000 pounds of raw butter weekly; sold in 1300+ stores across USA
Credentials:
Founder & Chairman, Raw Milk Institute, a non-profit dedicated to increasing raw milk safety through standards and training and closely associated with International Milk Genomics Consortium at UC Davis, California, facilitating the most advanced science and knowledge of milk genomics in today’s world.
Educator and Mentor, guiding raw milk farmers in the development of individualized Risk Analysis Management Plans (RAMP) for their farms
Retired EMS paramedic & Acute Care Medical Educator
Worldwide lecturer, Safety and Health Benefits of intentionally-produced Raw Milk
Mission Pilot for Flying Doctors, remote Mexico
Volunteer Mission Pilot, Sheriff’s Search & Rescue Air Squadron, California
Margaret (Peg) Coleman
Expertise:
Microbial ecology, predictive microbiology, public health; peer review and education; microbial benefit and risk analysis
Education:
MS, Medical Microbiology (1995), University of Georgia
MS, Biology/Biochemistry (1988), Utah State University
BS, Biology/Chemistry (1979), SUNY ESF
Boards & Professional Affiliations:
Advisory Board Member, Raw Milk Institute
Member, American Society for Microbiology
Fellow and elected member, Society for Risk Analysis Council
Selected Publications: (Click here for full list.)
Microbiome and Immunology: Interactions for Risk Assessors from 21st Century Science at SUNY ESF, Environmental Risk Assessment course
Considering Risk Management for Complex Systems at Ohio State University, Quantitative Microbial Risk Analysis Modeling course