Such a threat, those Amish. They drink the hard stuff that our agrarian grandparents drank.
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.
That fear isn’t irrational. In the case of the Amish farmer, the FDA went to the trouble of setting up an interstate straw purchase — of milk — using false information to establish its authority and then prosecute the case. Against Pennsylvania’s notorious, hard core milk syndicate kingpin. This Amish farmer is right up there with Escobar, don’t ya know.
Perhaps we need to publish a national milk carton search to find all of our lost freedoms.
I’m shocked. Shocked !
Well, the occupiers want to shut down all corporations later this month, I guess the occupiers in our government decided to start small.
Glad everything else is going so swimmingly that the federal government can crack down on the Amish.
Next up: Operation Milkwaker.
rbj — the Amish are one of the few groups actually exempt from Obamacare. The Maladministration had to get their revenge somehow.
Closely followed by “Operation Foot in Mouth,” wherein undercover Government agents sell inferior horseshoe nails to Amish blacksmiths, then spend months closely following Amish buggies with cars that are equipped with windshields of substandard thickness, patiently waiting for a horse to throw a shoe backward. A quick turn of the steering wheel guarantees a direct windshield strike, whereupon the car conveniently swerves into the nearest ditch. Local media film crews will coincidentally be following the “victimized” cars, of course.
“Amish Smithy Arrested Using Defective Materials — NTSB Launches Investigation”
“Film of horrific crash site at 11:00.”
The Amish are self insured they negotiate directly with hospitals and other providers for services.
Exemption from ObamaCare?! Does this mean we’re all Amish now?
Perhaps the Amish aren’t donating enough to Re-Bar Campaign …
The Amish don’t have good enough lobbyists. If they had spent a few dollars, they could have a raw milk requirement in the birth control section of Obamacare, and gotten the Catholic Church to pay for it.
Seriously, so some people want to buy raw milk, and the FDA says it’s dangerous? Ignoring the milk, does the FDA have any idea the stuff that is used to make cheese?
“said unpasteurized milk is unsafe”
Should it not be up to me to decide if I want to “risk” drinking raw milk? I’m an average intelligent adult capable of doing the research and weighing the pros and cons of buying my food direct from the farmer.
I wish these people would quit trying to protect me from myself. Motorcycle helmets, seat belts, raw milk, chicken, pork, beef, fruits and vegetables bought direct from the farmer. Leave me alone.
Actually it’s more about what’s best for Conagra, Monsanto et al and the associated kickbacks to government officials than it is about my safety.
Having seen a Conagra chicken processing plant (and associated hormones and preservatives) and what I get from my local farmer, I’ll take the farmer every time, thank you very much.
I told you the Amish were nasty gangsters.
“We’re all crazy Mennonites, livin’ in an Amish paradise…”
I had a dairy goat for years, so I’ve downed a lot of raw milk in my life. I also used to buy raw cow’s milk from some Amish neighbors in a state where I used to live that will remain unnamed. There’s nothing wrong with raw milk, and we should be able to buy it if we want to. More jack-booted gov’t thugs taking away our freedoms…
Legalize Raw Milk!
I bet that sorry Amish SOB wasn’t giving his cows contraception either. Give him the chair. Jesus freak.
Rumor has it that a number of human babies are drinking raw milk.