Posted on 05/05/2008 3:23:57 AM PDT by Man50D
A rally has been set for tomorrow in front of the magistrate's office in Mt. Holly, Pa., in support of a Mennonite farmer who has brought the wrath of the government on himself for selling raw milk and other products – an act government prosecutors say violates a number of regulations.
That's when the next court hearing is scheduled for Mark Nolt, a Pennsylvania farmer who turned in his state permit to sell raw milk because it didn't allow for the sale of the other products he offered.
"They swooped in ... like a bunch of Vikings, handcuffed me and stole $30,000 worth of my milk, cheese and butter," he told the New York Daily News.
His case is just an example of what the government is trying to do to those who believe – based on medical results – that raw milk is better for them than the processed milk available in most grocery stores, according to Nolt's supporters.
Processed milk, many believe, leads to clogged arteries, strokes and heart attacks.
According to reports published by the Weston A. Price Foundation, results of a study by the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom revealed only one percent of the subjects in an ongoing lifestyle study of 5,000 men suffered heart attacks – if they drank full-fat milk and ate butter rather than margarine.
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Is it “illegal” or does it just po the gomnt
Our government bureaucrats are totally out of control. The Second American Revolution draws nigh.
It’s illegal to sell raw milk in many parts of the country. You can drink raw milk if you own “all or part” of the cow. There are several co-op dairies nationwide, where you can buy a “share” in a cow, which entitles you to a portion of the milk. We have a friend with a single Jersey cow, that gives more milk than they can possibly use, but we and a couple other families have “shares” in her and go by weekly for the milk.
Our socialist country is becoming more and more like early communist Russia with their utter destruction of farmers and establishment of collective farms. Why, permitting people to purchase and consume raw milk might demonstrate that the government has been WRONG for so many years!
We would rather attack oil executives for their obscene revenues, than take a rationale look at the true benefits of raw milk.
“Full fat” milk ?
I think they meant whole milk.
CW2 ping?
TB
The whole reason for pasteurization was to stop TB which can come from raw milk. TB was common before pastuaization, now it is fairly rare.
We bought raw milk from a farmer in our area for a long time. He was shut down. Since my aunt died of TB, I was not unhappy to go back to pasteurized.
Homogenized is another matter. Loved to be the first downstairs and pour a little cream on the cereal.
This must be good! Sounds like the stream of illegal immigrants coming across the border has dried up!
Not to mention the threat of terrorism is gone forever and we can all sit around and eat cookies and (pasteurized) cream!
Otherwise it's just another ingredient for mortar mix.
Frankly I have no idea in the world why anyone would want to drink milk and particularly not bacteria laden "raw milk".
There were several justifications given for pasteurizing milk, not just TB. Indeed, TB is one of the weaker justifications, as bovine TB is distinct from human TB, and human TB is usually spread by breathing air droplets, not by food consumption.
The major motivation, to my understanding, for pasteurization was that it allowed large scale distribution of poorer quality milk to urban populations.
It is a serious travesty in my book to be making raw milk illegal or difficult to obtain. For the sorts of diseases that an old man like me would be most worried about, such as heart disease or diabetes, raw milk is a substantially healthier product.
See further the Raw Milk links on my Freeper home page, or the links:
Maybe you should Google it.
I grew up drinking raw milk. Boiling milk, like boiling wine, changes its taste and destroys many useful ingredients. I have watched one raw milk dairy farmer after another driven out of business by our government regulations. Their practices were clean, humane, and healthy for the economy and customers alike, IMO. Now they are gone and their dairy farms are gone.
I bought raw milk for years from a farmer. We would meet at a local Wendy’s restaurant parking lot and transfer the milk from his car to mine while looking over our shoulders. I felt like I was buying cocaine.
Well said, thanks.
Government won’t go after criminals and terrorists, so it goes after innocent people to make us think that is still serves a worthwhile purpose.
Raw milk still has lactose. You have to “process” milk until you are rid of that dangerous substance before it’s good to eat. Simply pasteurizing it doesn’t do the job. Lactobacillus does!
They have been drinking it for years in places like France, Spain, Portugal and I don’t recall any major health problems shutting down the country.
Even the attacks on Big Oil are more government BS, helped along by their dumbing-down of the electorate and their willing accomplices in the cheerleader media...
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