Posted on 09/28/2011 8:33:12 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
John Place wanted to get in to the commercial milk business when he opened his dairy farm in 2007 in Moore Township but found it wouldn’t be worth it. Small-time farmers got so little back on the sale of milk that he wouldn’t be able to make ends meet.
Place and his wife, Amanda, instead have developed a business selling raw milk, cheese and grass-fed beef from the Route 248 farm called Keepsake Farm & Dairy. The couple's raised awareness today to make national agriculture policy more equitable to small farmers like them.
Farmers and their advocates in Bethlehem, Harrisburg and Philadelphia urged residents to call U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., to get him to support the Fair Farm Rules bill. Advocates said the rules would even the playing field some for small farmers.
Casey sits on the Senate Agriculture Committee, which is expected to consider the bill soon, said Mara Schechter, a local field organizer with Food & Water Watch, which organized the Bethlehem demonstration.
“There has to be a leveling of the playing field and let the consumer determine the market,” Place said. “What we have now in this country is nowhere near fair market.”
(Excerpt) Read more at lehighvalleylive.com ...
That means "redistribute the wealth", right?
Boy. The article is like a who’s who of radical Leftist in the Lehigh Valley. I live down the road from these Commie Pinko farmers and buy their milk and cheese now and again for something different. You can tell straight up they are Mother Earth News types. Fegley’s Brew Works is run by the Feglay’s who are massive Progressives. They actually have a night a month at their Allentown bar dedicated to Progressives/Communists meeting over beers.
Casey is in a real up hill reelection. His poll suck and he isn’t raising money. He is going to have to pretend he is a Conservative Rat again. I don’t think he is going to touch this with a ten foot poll.
With a ten foot poll, maybe, to see which way the wind blows; I think Zogby runs those kinds of polls. With a ten foot pole, probably not. Bob is an empty suit just like Dad, without his father's solid pro-life bona fides. The problem is the GOP is moribund in PA; somebody has to run against Bobby. So... who?
Personally, I hope these clowns sell raw milk to every leftard east of the Susquehanna. Maybe we can get enough of them to drop dead to take back the Keystone State someday.
Personally, I hope these clowns sell raw milk to every leftard east of the Susquehanna. Maybe we can get enough of them to drop dead to take back the Keystone State someday.
“Leveling the playing field” means if you’re too tall we cut your head off and if you’re too short you can have one of those heads to stand on. Easy.
They’re asking for the farm subsidies to be given to the farmers instead of the processors. If you’re going to have farm subsidies, on the pretext of helping farmers, give it to the farmers. Don’t use it to pay corporations to put family farmers out of business.
All us farmers here in the mountains are knee-high to a grasshopper, under 5 feet tall.
Funny you should ask.
GOP tea party leader Tom Smith to run against Sen. Bob Casey
‘_______raw milk__________drop dead.’
Awwww - not this apcray again.
Our 4 daughters, now 43 to 52, were raised on raw milk, delivered to the door.
We don’t live in a farming community.
But there used to be a dairy 20 minutes away.
We all still eat raw cheddar cheese, and cottage cheese.
These raw milk dairies have standards and cleanliness that supercede regular dairies.
Don’t know what you’re missing by continuing to consume all the processed dairy ‘foods.’
Have to find another way to dispose of leftards.
I've worked in Dairy Agriculture for 30+ years, been in hundreds of parlors and barns. Short of putting a gun to my head, I wouldn't drink raw milk or any product produced from it. When a couple of coliform mastitis bugs destroy your kidneys, drop me a line.
For FReepers who pay attention to science, rather than superstition, read here: http://www.uwex.edu/milkquality/PDF/zoo.pdf.
Raw milk has been implicated in EVERY food borne illness outbreak EVER caused by dairy products. That's a pretty bad track record, but read the article, and decide for yourself how you feel about ingesting e-coli, tuberculosis, para-tuberculosis, salmonella and listeria. Also take a look at a map that shows the distribution of Johne's disease and Crohn's disease, note the correlation, and decide if having a chronic, dramatically life-shortening digestive disease is a chance you want to take in exchange for pretending to be "natural."
Hello Fred - just getting back to you - sorry - -
Yes, its safe - around here it is - they wouldn't offer/sell it if it wasn't.
What can I say - our experiences are vastly different.
I know that back in about the ‘70’s or ‘80’s there would be an occasional shut-down for a week or more of being able to purchase raw dairy products here in So. Calif. - and it was always a witch hunt.
Traditional dairies would love to have raw milk dairies shut down.
Since you're on FR, you know how the ‘Left’ works!
For years now it's been rather peaceful in the ‘raw dairy products’ wars here!
It's not just health food stores that carry these product, either.
As far as raw milk consumption, we consider that food for calves, and had our daughters off of it probably before they were teenagers.
It wasn't easy giving up delicious raw milk!
One daughter, 45, has no cavities - so calcium can be obtained from other sources.
(Don't get me started about awful fluoridation - - )!
We don't consider ourselves naturalists, purists, perfect, or fanatics, either!
However, we'd rather eat food that is not swirling with all kinds of preservatives, dyes, and artificial colors and flavors, etc.
Our bodies have a heck of a hard time identifying and processing the ingested chemical stuff in our foods. Could be the start of a disease or two.
Eat out, and at someone else’s house? - sure.
But we're so old we know our due diligence has paid off!
Trader Joe's here (and in a few other states) is famous for offering most foods without those ingredients - preservatives, dyes, and artificial colors and flavors. No one has the remotest thought that TJ’s is faddist - or a health food store - they're not! The food just plain tastes good!
Trader Joe's also carries a number of ‘raw’ products, including some varieties of nuts. (Easy there - think I hear you)!
When we became aware of how knowledge of nutrition (eating quite well most of the time, and using quality supplements) is related to health, we looked into it (50 years ago!) and haven't stopped learning.
We have also been using integrative/alternative approaches to our health care for YEARS, and now it's somewhat ordinary that hardly anyone thinks it's ‘strange.’< For years we've been getting monthly newsletters from MD's who turned to and integrated nutrition into their practice. Not only that, but they report on `nonsense' that pops up in medicine. One of those docs (degrees from Dartmouth and Emory) is in So. CA, across from the John Wayne Airport. 'Whitaker Wellness' is off the I-405 in Newport Beach. We've been there a few times, starting in 1996. We do not turn down traditional medicine when a serious illness or emergency pops up (rare,TG), but as we're consuming the meds, we're doing research and finding the equivalent in food supplements, and perhaps an herb or two, and ditch the prescription - always been successful.
Why do you think the FDA gets so uptight every now and then towards the likes of us, and ‘punishes’ people like us by yanking this and that, only to have most of it eventually come back anyway?!
Because we're not continuing to line the pockets of the pharmaceuticals!
Surprise! Our politics are quite to the right of center.
Maybe the following will annoy you further: we don't have a real computer - we have the modest WEBTV/MSNTVII system, so I thought I might not be able to open the link you sent. It is a PDF, and this system could ‘open’ it, but it wasn't easy to read - too hard to explain - so that was a bust.
As we know, the information probably would not have changed my mind, just like I'm probably not going to change yours!
I'll end by saying, ‘thank God we have choices as to our diet, and form of health care. Including chiropractic and homeopathy - for years.’ We're not clogging the busy docs offices!
Who knows, tho, if Obamalama gets re-elected . . . (wash out my mouth - ech - )
USARightSide
PS Just what was it that tainted those cantelopes in Colorado? The News never says, not that I've heard.
An innocent cantelope that kills - - - PPS Cripes - there's a huge paragraph in the middle here that occurred when I used `Spell' and got all tangled in that . . .
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