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Showing posts with label raw milk distribution. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

DEFIANCE IN KENTUCKY AS FOOD CLUB MEMBERS GRAB QUARANTINED RAW MILK - CLAIM FDA SEARCH WARRANT NULL AND VOID BECAUSE AGENCY LACKED FARM AUTHORITY

http://atasteofcreole.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/defiance-in-ky-as-food-club-members-grab-quarantined-raw-milk-allgyer-claims-fda-search-warrant-null-and-void-because-agency-lacked-farm-authority/

Damn it to hell.  If I want to drink raw milk, sour milk, milk that's growing green hair, that's my business.  In the 70s, I used to buy raw milk from Ralph's supermarket chain in California.  I FED IT TO MY FAMILY.
We loved it!

This is insanity; a government running amok, the fist of the dictator slamming us for what? 

It's time to push back.  Bravo, Kentucky!!!!

Friday, February 17, 2012

FEDS SHUT DOWN AMISH FARM FOR SELLING FRESH MILK

h/t to Merlin!





Not any more; not by a long shot.....

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His customers are wary of talking publicly, fearing the FDA will come after them." (that could be you or someone you know)


"
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

~
Thomas Jefferson

Are you afraid yet?






Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk

**FILE** Morgan the cow stops to eat grass on her way to being milked at a rally held by Grassfed on the Hill at Upper Senate Park in Washington on May 16, 2011. The rally was held to protest the sting operation the FDA conducted against Pennsylvania dairy farmer Daniel Allgyer and his private buying customers. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)**FILE** Morgan the cow stops to eat grass on her way to being milked at a rally held by Grassfed on the Hill at Upper Senate Park in Washington on May 16, 2011. The rally was held to protest the sting operation the FDA conducted against Pennsylvania dairy farmer Daniel Allgyer and his private buying customers. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)


The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington, D.C., region after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines and he told his customers he would shut down his farm altogether.
The decision has enraged Mr. Allgyer’s supporters, some of whom have been buying from him for six years and say the government is interfering with their parental rights to feed their children.
But the Food and Drug Administration, which launched a full investigation complete with a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and a straw-purchase sting operation against Mr. Allgyer’s Rainbow Acres Farm, said unpasteurized milk is unsafe and it was exercising its due authority to stop sales of the milk from one state to another.
Adding to Mr. Allgyer’s troubles, Judge Lawrence F. Stengel said that if the farmer is found to violate the law again, he will have to pay the FDA’s costs for investigating and prosecuting him.
His customers are wary of talking publicly, fearing the FDA will come after them.
“I can’t believe in 2012 the federal government is raiding Amish farmers at gunpoint all over a basic human right to eat natural food,” said one of them, who asked not to be named but received weekly shipments of eggs, milk, honey and butter from Rainbow Acres, a farm near Lancaster, Pa. “In Maryland, they force taxpayers to pay for abortions, but God forbid we want the same milk our grandparents drank.”
The FDA, though, said the judge made the right call in halting Mr. Allgyer’s cross-border sales.
“Intrastate sale of raw milk is allowed in Pennsylvania, and Mr. Allgyer had previously received a warning letter advising him that interstate sale of raw milk for human consumption is illegal,” agency spokeswoman Siobhan DeLancey said.
Neither the FDA nor the Justice Department, which pursued the legal case, provided numbers to The Washington Times on the cost of the investigation and court fight.
Fans of fresh milk, which they also call raw milk, attribute all kinds of health benefits to it, including better teeth and stronger immune systems. Raw milk is particularly popular among parents who want it for their children.

In a unique twist, the movement unites people on the left and the right who argue that the federal government has no business controlling what people choose to consume.

In a rally last year, they drank fresh milk in a park across Constitution Avenue from the Senate.
But the FDA says it concluded, after extensive study along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that raw milk is never safer than pasteurized milk. It disputes those who say pasteurization — the process of heating food to kill harmful organisms — makes it less healthy.
Many food-safety researchers say pasteurization, which became widespread in the 1920s and 1930s, dramatically reduced instances of milk-transmitted diseases such as typhoid fever and diphtheria.

The FDA began looking into Mr. Allgyer’s operations in late 2009, when an investigator in the agency’s Baltimore office used aliases to sign up for a Yahoo user group made up of Rainbow Acres customers.

The investigator placed orders for fresh milk and had it delivered to private residences in Maryland, where it was picked up and documented as evidence in the case. By crossing state lines, the milk became part of interstate commerce and thus subject to the FDA’s ban.

At one point, FDA employees made a 5 a.m. visit to Mr. Allgyer’s farm. He turned them away, but not before they observed milk containers labeled for shipment to Maryland.

After the FDA first took action, Mr. Allgyer changed his business model. He arranged to sell shares in the cows to his customers, arguing that they owned the milk and he was only transferring it to them.

Judge Stengel called that deal “merely a subterfuge.” “The practical result of the arrangement is that consumers pay money to Mr. Allgyer and receive raw milk,” the judge wrote in a 13-page opinion.
Grassfed On the Hill Buying Club has about 500 active members.

Liz Reitzig, a mother who has become a raw-milk activist and is an organizer of the group, said the lawyers who pursued the case against Mr. Allgyer ought to “be ashamed.”

“Many families are dependent on the milk for health reasons or nutritional needs, so a lot of people will be desperately trying to find another source now,” she said.

Friday, November 4, 2011

THE MILK MAMAS DESCEND ON WASHINGTON, DC - YOU GO GIRLS!

Pasteurization kills nutrients and gives the milk a longer shelf-life, so some folks choose raw milk over pasteurized.  Well, the FDA decided that sort of food freedom is EXTREMIST and worthy of armed raids with guns drawn. Recently, the FDA has engaged in several long and involved undercover sting operations and raids against peaceful farmers and raw food sellers.  Apparently, making your own food and nutrition choices is akin to terrorism.    So some folks decided to call B.S. on the FDA and staged a 'Smokey and the Bandit' with raw milk to demonstrate the importance of food freedom and the ridiculousness of the FDA's heavy-handed food tyranny.  These people are awesome!  Video:  http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/5611.html - Brasscheck  P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues.   That's how we grow. Thanks.   ================================ Brasscheck TV 2380 California St. San Francisco, CA 94115  T

Sunday, May 1, 2011

FDA VICTORY IN THE WAR ON AMISH RAW MILK

http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/05/01/fda-victory-in-the-war-on-raw-milk/

The bastards...

There is NOTHING like the taste of raw milk. It's healthy and it tastes great. It hasn't been processed to white fluid with no taste.

Friday, February 25, 2011

BIG PHARMA WANTS CONTROL "ALL" THE DRUGS AND THE EVIL FDA TRIES TO DESTROY RAW MILK AND RAW CHEESE BUT THERE'S MORE TO THIS STORY, TOO

The War on Drugs, you see, is actually a war for Big Pharma to take over all the drugs
http://www.naturalnews.com/031489_DEA_legalized_marijuana.html


Even as the evil empire of the FDA tries to destroy raw milk and raw cheese, several states are working on legislation to legalize raw milk for their citizens
http://www.naturalnews.com/031501_raw_milk_restrictions.html



Wednesday, March 11, 2009

From the blog: PlanetSave.com - Ron Paul says sale of raw milk ok

http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/03/09/ron-paul-wants-to-make-the-sale-of-raw-milk-legal/

Back in the 70s, I milked my own goats, and the goats of a friend. I bought raw cow's milk from the grocery chain up the road. No one I ever heard of became ill - not my friend who fed it to her family, not my family, ever.

Then suddenly it was off the shelves. That was in California.

I loved the idea of drinking milk straight from a cow, or a goat. I made cheese from my own goat's milk - it was the best mozzarella.

Ron Paul has the right idea. Support him.

This blog, a few entries down, has some amazing and enlightening information on things you "don't want to do", and labels you'd rather not have. I think you should visit.




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