Wisconsin Judge Says You Can’t Own Bessie

Madame Agrarian ^ | Sept. 23, 2011 | Unknown

[Twotone]

Judge Patrick J. Fiedler of Wisconsin stated in a recent clarification of his decision about the sale and distribution of raw milk that, “This court is unwilling to declare that there is a fundamental right to consume the food of one’s choice without first being presented with significantly more developed arguments on both sides of the issue.”

Well then, let me present you with some “more developed arguments” on my side of the issue–the side that says, “I have the right to own the livestock of my choice and reap the benefits thereof.”

[Twotone]

Here’s another one:

http://www.foodrenegade.com/your-choice-of-food-fundamental-right/

Looks like an interesting site for preppers as well.

[Pollster1]

In terms of federal law, there is a fundamental right: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

[muawiyah]

Downstream, you folks willing to chance food born diseases should probably be irradiated before you go near my favorite buffet!

[rawcatslyentist]

It's illegal to seek your own medical treatment also.

You Have to have a MD tell you you're in pain. Then you Have to buy their medicine from their pharmacy.

You can't be trusted to take care of yourself. It's the Looo.

Land of the free to follow their laws, or face kidnapping, and ransoms.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wisconsin Politics Ping List Ping!

[Grunthor]

We live in a country where “Right to privacy” and “Right to do with my body what I will” means that you can murder your unborn child because you cannot keep your legs shut but you cannot drink a glass of milk from your own cow?

[Sea Parrot]

Must have been a local thing, but when a kid all the family cows were named Bossie.

[WorldviewDad]

“...but you cannot drink a glass of milk from your own cow”

We still do...as do many that we know. This could get interesting.

[Silverfiddle]

Progressives have succeeded in turning it upside-down.

The founders established this nation upon a foundation of negative rights. You have the right to do whatever the hell you want as long as you do not violate the rights of others. No one owes you anything.

The progressives have turned it around to a positive right nation, where your rights are what the government says they are.

This is sickening...

[Vince Ferrer]

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness seems to cover it.

[Grunthor]

I plan on having milk cows here next year. Only two because it’s a smallish farm but I plan to make my cheese, butter, ice cream and yogurt.

I will not be “selling” it. I will be trading it. There are things I need for the farm, there are folks nearby that want and need fresh from the farm dairy products.

We already have chicken eggs. I have sold a bunch of those to the local farmers market and plan to double my flock of one dozen to two dozen next spring.

I don’t plan on allowing some government bleep-hole to tell me what to do on my own land with my own cows.

[tacticalogic]

If they judge says you can’t own Bessie, then when the tax assesment on Bessie arrives in the mail, it’ll be time to send the assesor over to talk with the judge.

[RichInOC]

…but if you wait a while, you’ll be able to marry her.

[WorldviewDad]

We currently have the family milk cow, a steer, a small flock of sheep, a goat, a couple dozen chickens and a few ducks...and of course dogs and cats. We do not raise anything for sale but only for family consumption...the family includes my wife and I as well as seven children...so we consume a fair amount. It is nice to be able to look in one of the freezers at the beginning of the week and decide the meal plans for the week...beef on one day, chicken on another, lamb the next, then duck, maybe a turkey...and to know that it all came off of your own land.

We also have made our own cheese, butter, ice cream and yogurt...and they always seem to taste better then store bought.

As an extra benefit we get wool and fiber from our sheep and goat that we are able to process at home...we now have the equipment to take the fiber from raw stage all the way to yarn. And with several daughters learning from their mother how to use that yarn we all have very warm clothes for the winter.

I grew up in the city but could not imagine ever moving back their...I definitely prefer country living now.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I admire your self-reliance. I’ll never get there myself, but I offer you all laud and honor. Your 7 children are very lucky.

[Grunthor]

Your life is (except for the 7 kids) where I want us to get.

[Average Al]

Wouldn’t nuking the milk in a microwave solve the problem?

[Tammy8]

Ours were all Daisy- except one very special sweetheart that we called Elsie. Ya we were real original too.

[Tammy8]

Be careful who you trade with, it only takes one complaint to bring down the gov’t on your head.