Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk

[zorgon]

Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Monday, February 13, 2012

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

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

Adding to Mr. Allgyer's troubles, Judge Lawrence F. Stengel said that if the farmer 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.

Feds shut down Amish farm for selling fresh milk

That is the new Goon Squad tactics... make ya pay for your own prosecution.

"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 of them, who asked not to be named but received weekly shipments of eggs, milk, honey and butter from Rainbow Acres, a farm near Lancaster, Pa. "In Maryland, they force taxpayers to pay for abortions, but God forbid we want the same milk our grandparents drank."

[sky otter]

..ok..it is legal to sell raw milk in pa...all you need is a permit...
so i would say this is a case of either someone being pissed off or crossing state lines



http://www.realmilk.com/milk-laws-4.html#pa

PENNSYLVANIA
Summary:

Raw milk sales are legal on the farm and in retail stores. Raw milk for retail producers must have a permit and can only sell to stores if they have their own packaging operation with labeling and bottling machines. Stores purchasing raw milk from farmers for resale do not ordinarily need a permit. Producers selling raw milk only on the farm do not need bottling equipment because the state permits customers to bring their own containers.

The only raw milk product that licensees can sell legally is cheese. According to the Department of Agriculture, this is because the state has a standard of identity regulation only for raw cheese, not for any other raw dairy products. If a dairy product does not have a standard of identity regulation, the Department will not issue a permit for it


if you read further down the article you will see more info that shows it isn't really so much about selling raw milk..looks to me like he pissed somebody off..maybe a regular dairy..who knows

from the article

"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," agency spokeswoman Siobhan DeLancey said.

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The FDA began looking into Mr. Allgyer's operations in late 2009, when an investigator in the agency's Baltimore office used aliases to sign up for a Yahoo user group made up of Rainbow Acres customers.

The investigator placed orders for fresh milk and had it delivered to private residences in Maryland, where it was picked up and documented as evidence in the case. By crossing state lines, the milk became part of interstate commerce and thus subject to the FDA's ban.

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After the FDA first took action, Mr. Allgyer changed his business model. He arranged to sell shares in the cows to his customers, arguing that they owned the milk and he was only transferring it to them.

Judge Stengel called that deal "merely a subterfuge."

"The practical result of the arrangement is that consumers pay money to Mr. Allgyer and receive raw milk," the judge wrote in a 13-page opinion.

Grassfed On the Hill Buying Club has about 500 active members.


we can buy raw milk just up the road and there has never been a problem...

[Amaterasu]

The whole raw milk thing is so insane.  Today, dairies are VERY clean.  The milk tanker pulls up, takes a sample of the milk going in, leaves and goes to the next farm.  Same process.  The samples are checked for contaminants when the truck gets to the plant, and if any sample is "dirty," the farmer whose milk contaminated the load gets to pay for the whole load!

BIG incentives to have clean practices!

The enzymes in Lactaid are the very same ones destroyed by pasteurization.  And speaking of pasteurization...

Here's an AWESOME site with information that will make You rethink Our whole approach to medicine:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm

(That whole site is an eye-opener!)

[Amaterasu]

Found some great info on just how BAD pasteurized (worse: ultra-pasteurized) and worst: homogenized milk is for Us.

http://izbedda.com/2009/07/08/unhomogenized-milk-vs-homogenized-milk/

WE NEED RAW MILK!!!!!

[rdunk]

This is just more pure BS that this administration is unleashing upon the rights of the people. I don't drink milk, but I do eat cereal with milk. Milk is prepared by the cow in the way it supposed to be used, and to make a law that says otherwise is  intolerable. 

Yes, there has been bad milk that caused problems, but at least some, if not all, were a result of some of the bad/illegal stuff that was in soe of the cattle feed.

We need to get the laws changed, and get rid of the people who are doing such crap as this!

JMHO!

[zorgon]

Raw-food raid highlights a hunger

Some people balk at restrictions on selling unprocessed milk and other foods. 'How can we not have the freedom to choose what we eat?' one says. Regulators say the rules exist for safety and fairness.
July 25, 2010|By P.J. Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times

With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts.

Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid's target inside a walk-in refrigerator: unmarked jugs of raw milk.

Raw-food raid highlights a hunger

US Government Declares War on Raw Milk - ATS Thread

Armed Police Raid Private Organic Co-Op Rawesome Foods, Security Camera Footage



GUNS DRAWN? WTF?  This is getting insane...

[zorgon]

Arsenic Found in Brown Rice Syrup, Organic Foods, Baby Formulas

A sweetener used in powdered baby formula and some organic and gluten-free foods may contain dangerously high levels of arsenic, researchers reported today.

Environmental chemist Brian P. Jackson, who is the director of the Trace Element Analysis Core Facility at Dartmouth University, said that his team found organic baby formula whose main ingredient was brown rice syrup had arsenic levels six times higher than what the EPA considers safe for drinking water. According to the study, which was published Thursday in the journal "Environmental Health Perspectives," the researchers also found high arsenic levels in some organic foods sweetened with brown rice syrup, including cereal bars, energy bars, and gel energy "shots" that athletes slurp down after working out.

Arsenic Found in Brown Rice Syrup, Organic Foods, Baby Formulas

[zorgon]

RAW MILK RAID: Raid on Healthy Family Farms (Victoria Bloch)



Rawesome FDA raid 2 Aug3,2011



SWAT Team Raid Organic Food Seller 2011

[Amaterasu]

... for safety and fairness. ...

Safety?  Who's dying?  FAIRNESS!?!  What is "fair" about forcing those who DON'T want the unhealthy stuff to have no CHOICE?

Land of the force-fed, We are.  Free?  Heh.

[Amaterasu]

Arsenic Found in Brown Rice Syrup, Organic Foods, Baby Formulas

Arsenic Found in Brown Rice Syrup, Organic Foods, Baby Formulas

I wonder if it was planted...

I mean, if They can't produce a REAL problem, create one, manage the reaction, and then supply the solution.

That would make sense to Me.  (If *I* was an evil, powerful F***, *I* would do something like that.  Glad I'm not either evil or a F***.  Wish I was powerful, though!  LOL!)

[zorgon]

Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food
August 13, 2010

Since the story first broke, a lot has happened. One reason for this could be that food is being poisoned. Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states. Your intake is being controlled. For more information, visit the following articles as well:

    Raiding organic food stores. A sign of new times?

    Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water

    Why do people in America refuse to take active interest in their future?

S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010,  may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US.  It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.

"If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public's right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.  It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one's choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God."  ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower

It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.

Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food

Food Safety Modernization Act - Senate Bill s510

(NaturalNews) The Food Safety Modernization Act looks like it's headed to become law. It's being hailed as a "breakthrough" achievement in food safety, and it would hand vast new powers and funding to the FDA so that it can clean up the food supply and protect all Americans from food-borne pathogens.

There's just one problem with all this: It's all a big lie.

Here are the ten biggest lies that have been promoted about S.510 by the U.S. Congress, the food industry giants and the mainstream media

Lie #1 - Most deaths from food poisoning are caused by fresh produce
Lie #2 - Under S.510, the FDA would only recall products it knows to be contaminated
Lie #3 - They didn't tell you that nearly 70% of grocery store chickens are contaminated with salmonella every day
Lie #4 - S.510 will exclude and protect small farmers
Lie #5 - The FDA needs more power to enforce food safety
Lie #6 - Fresh produce is contaminated because of a lack of paperwork
Lie #7 - The American people are dying in droves from unsafe fresh food
Lie #8 - The FDA just wants to make food "safer"
Lie #9 - Food smuggling is a huge problem in America
Lie #10 - S.510 will make America's food supply the safest in the world

Top ten lies about Senate Bill 510

[zorgon]

Georgia Police Bust Girls' Lemonade Stand In Midway

MIDWAY, Ga. -- Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits.

Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it.

The girls had been operating for one day when Morningstar and another officer cruised by.

The girls needed a business license, peddler's permit and food permit to operate, even on residential property. The permits cost $50 a day or $180 per year.

One girl, 14-year-old Casity Dixon, says the three had to listen to police and shut down.

The girls are now doing chores and yard work to make money.

Georgia Police Bust Girls' Lemonade Stand In Midway



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Cop Tells Children Not to Buy Lemonade!

RIVERSIDE PARK, N.Y. (WPIX)—
A 10-year-old girl in Riverside Park was slapped with a fine for setting up a lemonade stand without a permit Saturday.

Opening a lemonade stand has been Clementine Lee's dream since last year. She decided to take advantage of the day's nice weather to finally set up shop with her 49-year-old father, Richard.

"It was such a hot day I figured people would want a cold drink," Lee told the New York Post.

The stand was set up on West 73rd Street and Riverside Drive, and for the first 20 minutes, business was booming--they two sold 10 glasses of lemonade for 50 cents each, along with the dozen chocolate chip cookies they baked.

10-Year-Old Girl Busted For Lacking Lemonade Stand Permit

City Tickets 10-Year-Old For Having a Lemonade Stand

[zorgon]

Cops shut down Ga. Girl Scout cookie stand
Girls feared arrest for cookie peddling after police officer asked to see their permit

VILLA RICA, Ga. — A Girl Scout leader says young members of her troop thought they were headed to jail when a Georgia police officer told them to quit selling cookies.

The girls had set up a stand at a strip mall in Villa Rica about 30 miles west of Atlanta on Wednesday when the officer asked them if they had a peddler's permit. They didn't.

Troop Leader Kathy Crook told WXIA-TV in Atlanta that she was stunned. She says the scouts were told to pack it up.

And she says the younger members thought they would be taken to jail.

Cops shut down Ga. Girl Scout cookie stand - MS-NBC news

[zorgon]

Busted: NY Politician Calls Cops on Kids' Unlicensed Bake Sale

Alert the authorities! Some kids in New York apparently think it's still okay to engage in capitalistic ventures in America!

Think again, kiddos:

    A politician in a New York suburb called police on two 13-year-old boys for selling cupcakes and other baked goods without a permit, according to a report Monday.

    The Journal News in Westchester County said the boys, Andrew DeMarchis and Kevin Graff, had a brisk business selling cupcakes, cookies, brownies and Rice Krispie treats for $1 each in a Chappaqua park.

    However, New Castle [which includes Chappaqua] Councilman Michael Wolfensohn called the police after discovering the sale was not for charity, the newspaper said.

    Kevin's mother, Laura Graff, said the teens were "good kids" who were scared by the police call.

    "I am shocked and sad for the boys. It was such a great idea, and they worked hard at it," Laura Graff, Kevin's mother, told The Journal News. "But then some Town Board member decided to get on his high horse and wreck their dreams."

Busted: NY Politician Calls Cops on Kids' Unlicensed Bake Sale - he Blaze

Busted: NY Politician Calls Cops on Kids' Unlicensed Bake Sale - Free Republican

Preschool Bake Sale Gets Shut Down by Health Department

It's pretty tough to imagine a bake sale being shut down by city officials, right? And no, I don't mean a get-baked sale (pot brownies are for funerals now, haven't you heard?). I'm talking about a harmless preschool bake sale where parents sell cupcakes and cookies and whatever else they happened to have ingredients for when they got home from work the previous evening and said, "D'oh! Tomorrow is that stinking bake sale?"

But that's exactly what happened in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, when a small bake sale held to profit the Rocky Mountain Participation Nursery School was shut down because the moms and dads didn't have a permit to push their homemade lemon bars.

Preschool Bake Sale Gets Shut Down by Health Department

[zorgon]

Finally... a Little Good News

A Cottage Food Law in California could soon become reality
By Isabel Bonfatti | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Fri, Jan 6, 2012

COMMENTARY | When I was 9 years old back in my native country, I started making my own money by baking cookies and making caramel fudge taffy at home and bringing them to school every day to sell. In California, such early entrepreneurship would not be allowed since one cannot sell food cooked at home. This scenario might change pretty soon. The Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) is introducing and nurturing a 2012 Cottage Food Law bill in California.

This is happening within an expanding movement aiming to localize food systems and support small-scale food production. If such bill passed, the California State Legislature would allow for the sale of specific home-made food products, such as baked goods (excluding those with cream or meat fillings), jams and jellies, candy, granola and other dry cereal, popcorn, waffle cones, nut mixes, chocolate-covered non-perishables (i.e. nuts and dried fruit), roasted coffee, dry baking mixes, herb blends, and dried tea. Cottage Food Laws, also known as Baker's Bills, are laws that allow people to prepare certain foods in their own home kitchen. Such initiative also supports individuals who would like to start their own food business but can't afford to sustain the financial and logistical burden of having a commercial kitchen. By taking the first small steps at their home kitchens, such sprouting businesses can begin to develop a customer base and raise part of the capital that will eventually expand their companies.

As of 2011, there are more than a dozen states in the U.S. allowing some sort of commercial homemade food: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. There are at least an additional eight states with organizations and communities working in order to implement similar laws, including Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, and Wyoming .

A Cottage Food Law in California could soon become reality