CADA is a collective of consumers who want to see Canada’s outdated ban on raw milk lifted. 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 say yes to consumer choice!
MEET CADA’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Carolyn Johnson
Chair
Mother; farmer’s granddaughter; teacher; novelist; website copy writer; Vespa enthusiast.
Eva Kralits
Treasurer, Advocacy Lead
Mother; farmer’s granddaughter; immigrant; Retired CPA; Risk and Compliance Specialist; nature lover.
Kim Trudeau
Director, Ontario Lead
Mother; teacher; farmhand; living seasonally and sustainably; passionate supporter of local regenerative farmers.
Golda David
Director, Alberta Lead
Unschooling mother; homeschool facilitator; author; cheesemaker; owner of DemystifyingEducation
Stephen Magee
Director, Volunteers Lead
Card and board game enthusiast; history buff; avid reader; personal health devotee; philomath.
Donna Costa
Secretary to the Board
Farmer’s daughter; author; WAPF member; holistic nutritionist; former homeopath; sourdough bread maker.
MEET SOME OF CADA’S VOLUNTEERS
Jaki Ayton
Dairy goat farmer; descendant of farmers; public health employee; non-profit experience; Secretary, BC Goat Assoc.; Treasurer, Vancouver Island Goat Assoc.
Kristian Clinton
eCommerce specialist; dog parent; traveller; improviser; local food and Made-in-Canada supporter.
Richard Barrett
Great grandson of Manitoba homesteaders; son of dairy farmers; raw dairy activist; proud grandfather of two grandsons.
CADA’S ADVISORS
Mark McAfee
Dairy Farmer, McAfee Farms &
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
Medical Microbiologist / Risk Analyst
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 College of Environmental Science & Forestry and Syracuse University, cum laude)
Boards & Professional Affiliations:
- SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry Alumni Board
- Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) (1996 – present)
- Elected member SRA Council (2022-24)
Selected Publications and Reports:
- 2022. North, D.W., Coleman, M.E., Hull, R. Need for international workshops to deliberate evidence of benefits and risks of raw milks. Invited opinion article for Corpus Journal Veterinary Dairy Science 3(1)1031
- 2022. Dietert, R.R., Coleman, M.E., North, D.W., Stephenson, M.M. Nourishing the human holibiont toreduce the risk of non communicable diseases: A cow’s milk evidence map example. Invited manuscript in Special issue (Human Mcrobiota Influence on Human Health Status) for Applied Microbiology 2(1):25-52