Feds Sue To Shut Down Amish Farmer For Selling Raw Milk
A QUESTION OF 'RAW' POWER
Feds Sue To Shut Down Amish Farmer For Selling Raw Milk
FEDERAL OFFICIALS HAVE SUED TO SHUT DOWN AN AMISH FARMER WHO SOLD RAW MILK ACROSS STATE LINES, but customers accuse the Food and Drug Administration of colluding with corporate dairy farms.
"The FDA is in cahoots with the large milk producers,” rails Karin Edgett, a D.C. resident who is member of a cooperative supplied milk from Dan Allgyer's Rainbow Acres in Kinzers, Pa. “I don’t want the FDA and my tax dollars to go to shut down a farm that hasn’t had any complaints against it. They’re producing good food, and the consumers are extremely happy with it.”
Advocates of natural milk tout its taste and health benefits. But FDA spokeswoman Tamara N. Ward says "it's the FDA’s position that raw milk should never be consumed.” Undercover agents bought 12 samples of Allgyers' milk and lab results "confirmed that all twelve were unpasteurized."
Authories accuses Allgyers' in federal court of violating a federal prohibition on interstate sales of raw milk by shipping unpasteurized milk to the cooperative's out-of-state members. Investigators have been building a case against Allgyer since 2009 when an agent "used aliases to join the cooperative that Allgyer's farm was supplying in Maryland and Washington, D.C." The complaint contends the club "warns group members to 'not share information about our group and certainly not about our farmer' with government agencies or doctors ... "
But club organizer Liz Reitzig maintains members paid to belong and not for the milk, and thus thus wasn't part of interstate commerce. And some members of the public see the government's action as "a bunch of rubbish.'
" What did they do before the law that FDA put in effect?,'' wrote YaYamae on a CBS news site. "That raw milk was drank by millions and millions and millions, of folks in the old days and I have yet to read one account where some person (any person) died from drinking "raw milk". Horse feathers it's all about control and the almighty dollar."
Here's my question: did the feds get the club's members names from Facebook?
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The God of Israel and for Christians, the God of ALL Creation promised his beloved people a land flowing with (raw) milk and honey. Isaiah 7:15 reads about Jesus "Butter and curds and wild honey shall He eat that He may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For the FDA to say that raw milk is anything but superatively blessed is next to blasphemy. But since the scientists that they rely on wholeheartedly deny with the utmost of arrogance any belief in a god are we to expect any less from them? For Christians this passage of Scripture in Isaiah has rich allusions and undertones that make us believe that raw milk has the power to produce a righteous mindset in us. So for a society that embraces the adulteries of Hollywood and the pornography of organized crime and as well as turning a blind eye to the modern plague of sex slavery is it any wonder that their reasoning on the most innocent and pure of foods would be convoluted too?
Posted by: -1Paula Hall | May 3, 2011 06:24 PM
The God of Israel and for Christians, the God of ALL Creation promised his beloved people a land flowing with (raw) milk and honey. Isaiah 7:15 reads about Jesus "Butter and curds and wild honey shall He eat that He may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For the FDA to say that raw milk is anything but superatively blessed is next to blasphemy. But since the scientists that they rely on wholeheartedly deny with the utmost of arrogance any belief in a god are we to expect any less from them? For Christians this passage of Scripture in Isaiah has rich allusions and undertones that make us believe that raw milk has the power to produce a righteous mindset in us. So for a society that embraces the adulteries of Hollywood and the pornography of organized crime and as well as turning a blind eye to the modern plague of sex slavery is it any wonder that their reasoning on the most innocent and pure of foods would be convoluted too?
Posted by: -1Paula Hall | May 3, 2011 06:12 PM