Posted on 08/16/2008 8:03:29 AM PDT by davidgumpert
If you are concerned about the growing intrusiveness of regulators into our private lives, then you may want to read about Robin Countryman-Velk and her Kiddin’ Korral Animal and Activities project in the Napa, California, area.
Kiddin’ Korral is part of a 1,400-acre dude ranch that is owned and operated by some 1,400 owners (the acreage is not divided). The owners have an association with a board of directors that oversees the operations. The owners can use the place any time they want—it has 100 cabins, 200 campsites, a couple of large pools and, for the last two years, the Kiddin’ Korral agriculture project, which is a combination petting zoo/demo ag project. The facility even has its own pasteurizer—the kid goats are supposed to drink pasteurized milk, says Robin--so the milk the goats produce is pasteurized before animals or people consume it. (The photo above shows some of the milk fed to the goats.)
The program seems to have become a wonderful source of inspiration for about 70 children, and up to 300 adults—or, it was until Tuesday, when a group of regulators headed by an agent of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, showed up.
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Those guys are completely off the wall and I have no doubt, have no power to enforce that stupidity. If that goes through, anybody who owns a farm will be at risk.
“She says that when she protested that no milk was sold, that the people who consumed the milk owned the goats, she was told that that didn’t matter.”
It DEFINITELY matters...
It’s not just the regulators; it’s the gutter pigs that report these things because they are either, crazy, jealous or can’t get their way. I see that all of the time.
You got it exactly right. The article mentions that this was all started by a person in the club who didn’t like the goats. He called the health department and complained.
This is a perfect example of the confluence of an ignorant busybody and a bureaucrat who belives that her personal prejudices have the power of regulation. Our entire nation is awash in this kind of tyranny.
It is time to hold these people personally responsible for their abuses. The very notion that government officials are not responsible for their official corruption is a violation of the oldest code of Western law as embodied in the Magna Carta.
Sue this idiot and the horse she rode in on.
I suppose you likewise need a permit to grow your own tomatoes in Kalifornia?
Now, why in the world did the phrase “...time to feed the hogs.” pop into my mind?
I was raised on a farm. We didn’t have goats, but I know people who have them. I have NEVER heard that a kid goat should only drink pasteurized milk. It sure sounds strange to me. All mammal babies need to nurse within at least 1 hour of birth. I raise horses, and it is the biggest thing we watch for when a mare foals. The baby MUST have the colostrum the mother produces for the antibodies abainse infection, etc. I would have thought the same applied to goats.
You got it exactly right. The article mentions that this was all started by a person in the club who didn’t like the goats. He called the health department and complained.”
Another example of a person who joins something or moves into a rural area, and then complains.
My horses are NOT painted backdrops from Universal Studios. They are real. They get fed every day and get all the proper care.
If you intend to go somewhere that animals are, shut your mouth.
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