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Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk
www.washingtontimes.com ^ | 02-13-2012 | By Stephen Dinan

Posted on 02/13/2012 11:25:53 AM PST by Red Badger

The FDA has won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh, raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington region, after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines, and he told his customers he'll shut his farm down altogether.

The decision has enraged Mr. Allgyer's supporters, some of whom have been buying from him for six years and who 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, near Lancaster, said unpasteurized milk is unsafe and said it was exercising its due authority to stop its sale from one state to another.

Adding to Mr. Allgyer's troubles, Judge Lawrence F. Stengel said if he 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, who asked not to be named but who got weekly shipments of eggs, milk, honey and butter from Rainbow Acres. "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," said Siobhan DeLancey...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: agenda21; agriculture; amish; amishdairy; amishfarm; farm; freshmilk; govtabuse; milk; sourcetitlenoturl; tyranny
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To: Red Badger
Here is the other side's part of the story:

http://www.realmilk.com/

I have never drank any, but I get suspicious of the motives of our “great and beneficent fathers” in Washington when they send in armed swat teams to farms selling it locally. I have heard of much more disease coming from hamburger (USDA inspected and approved) than raw milk.

Why won't the government just inspect raw milk like many other foods and then it could be safe and legal? Too much common sense? Too much freedom?

61 posted on 02/13/2012 3:01:50 PM PST by A. Patriot (Have we lost our Republic? Do the majority of Americans care?)
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To: gramho12

My “bias” against raw milk is based on a whole lotta scientific evidence. I’m with you, though, on drinking it if you want and not drinking it if you don’t. But don’t try and tell me that the many pathogens present in raw milk can be controlled by ensuring the cows look healthy and that they have clean handling. That doesn’t work in the real world.


62 posted on 02/13/2012 3:03:57 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase

This post and your tag-line are quite ironic.


63 posted on 02/13/2012 3:04:43 PM PST by A. Patriot (Have we lost our Republic? Do the majority of Americans care?)
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To: A. Patriot

Just remember, EVERYTHING the government does, is at the point of a gun....................either real or implied...........


64 posted on 02/13/2012 3:11:27 PM PST by Red Badger (If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
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To: A. Patriot

How so?


65 posted on 02/13/2012 3:11:34 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase
Sorry, I take it back. I just read your other posts here and you are consistent with your tag line. My error.
66 posted on 02/13/2012 3:16:57 PM PST by A. Patriot (Have we lost our Republic? Do the majority of Americans care?)
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To: Red Badger

With a Satanic Marxist in the White House, the parade of evil across this once free nation becomes endless.


67 posted on 02/13/2012 3:24:42 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Red Badger

We see where our $1.4 trillion dollar deficit comes from - there are tens of thousands of government operations just like this that are spending, not only our money but also our children’s and grandchildren’s money, so that some thug behind a desk can feel powerful, and some poor farmer can be jailed or forced out of business for selling milk to customers who want milk. Big government is pathetic, and the far left is responsible for more than its share of the disgusting growth of government.


68 posted on 02/13/2012 3:33:19 PM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: DoughtyOne
If done properly, it’s okay.

In my mother's family there were 7 kids that drank fresh milk. All lived to be in their 80's and 90's

In my dad's family there were 8 kids. 7 of them lived into their 80's and 90's.

14 out of 15 not to bad.

69 posted on 02/13/2012 4:16:51 PM PST by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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To: morphing libertarian

70 posted on 02/13/2012 4:17:27 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Now the FDA has SWAT. What next?

Now a "food fight" can have a body count.

71 posted on 02/13/2012 4:27:00 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: trailhkr1

Thank-God no one’s ever gotten sick from a restaurant salad bar or tainted meat from a USDA inspected facility...


72 posted on 02/13/2012 4:33:57 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Bigh4u2

yes, but it does show that having liquor was illegal at that time.


73 posted on 02/13/2012 4:39:14 PM PST by jdub (A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
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To: trailhkr1
35 people in 4 states got sick last week from milk from a farm in PA.

More people died in auto accidents last week, but you won't see anyone harping on that.

74 posted on 02/13/2012 4:47:47 PM PST by Sarajevo (Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental)
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To: trailhkr1

>That being said anyone drinking unpasteurized milk is a fool.

Interestingly, my great-grandfather was a milkman before and after the pasteurization of milk came to America; he noted that there was an increase in the sickness rates AND lactose-intolerance after the switch. Furthermore, I have a friend who is a missionary now, but before he went to the field he went to Mongolia where they did not pasteurize their milk (mostly horse) and he did not have any problem at all with it... despite being acutely lactose-intolerant.


75 posted on 02/13/2012 5:14:20 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: houeto

I’m not a fan of raw milk myself, but if folks are, they should be able to get it.

I grew up on a farm, so I remember the richness of the fresh milk, the cream and full flavor.

Animals and humans have been benefiting from it for thousands of years. I guess they were lucky, the U. S. Government wasn’t around to protect them.


76 posted on 02/13/2012 6:21:27 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
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To: gramho12

Hey, we share the same take on it. Great.

Thanks GramHo12.


77 posted on 02/13/2012 6:23:04 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
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To: TYVets

Problem is, you have too many city slickers, and not enough seasoned people from the farmlands of America in our federal government. A lot of common sense comes to those who are early to bed and early to rise.


78 posted on 02/13/2012 6:25:50 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
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To: tacticalogic

“Now a “food fight” can have a body count.”

“Drop the carrots and come out with your hands up” LOL!


79 posted on 02/13/2012 9:51:16 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Red Badger; Eric Blair 2084; SheLion; Gabz; Hank Kerchief; 383rr; libertarian27; traviskicks; ...

I’m surprised that the FDA didn’t try to classify raw milk as a drug, due to the supposed health benefits.

Nanny State PING!


80 posted on 02/13/2012 10:17:09 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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