Posted on 08/20/2022 12:46:49 AM PDT by grundle
Amos Miller, the farm's owner, contends that he’s preparing food the way God intended — but the United States government doesn’t see things that way.
Miller's Organic Farm, located in the remote Amish village of Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, has been around for almost 30 years.
The farm supplies everything from grass-fed beef and cheese, to raw milk and organic eggs, to dairy from grass-fed water buffalo and all types of produce, all to roughly 4,000 private food club members who pay top dollar for high quality whole food.
The private food club members appreciate their freedom to get food from an independent farmer that isn’t processing his meat and dairy at U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities, which mandates that food be prepared in ways that Miller’s Organic Farm believe make it less nutritious.
Amos Miller, the farm's owner, contends that he’s preparing food the way God intended — but the U.S. government doesn’t see things that way.
They recently sent armed federal agents to the farm and demanded he cease operations. The government is also looking to issue more than $300,000 in fines — a request so steep, it would put the farm out of business.
This is an attack on Amish religious freedom just 150 miles from Washington D.C.
Making it even more independent, Miller’s farm also doesn’t use gasoline or fertilizer, and therefore the war between Ukraine and Russia isn’t affecting his bottom line, unlike every other farming competitor in the country.
Miller isn't dependent on big industry players or the government, and he’s providing healthy food to his community the way he believes God intended. The government is trying to intimidate his operation and shut it down.
If you believe the Amish should have the right to exercise their religious beliefs and their ability to provide healthy food to their community, sign our petition at LeaveThemAlone.com and I’ll personally deliver it to the U.S. Federal Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania.
Really the Amish this time?
My dad, maybe 20 years ago, took me to a Mennonite farming operation, and it was sugar cane harvest time....with the family in full production of molasses. Probably 5,000 jars laid out, and a dozen members of the family working on filling, securing and labeling the jars. If you asked me on sanitation....yeah, there were probably sixteen different fed standards in violation. But this was probably the safest operation in existence.
One of the biggest threats to the USDA and FDA is healthy Amish families.
“One of the biggest threats to the USDA and FDA is healthy Amish families.”
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Yep… the Amish still faithfully follow God’s instruction to “be fruitful, and multiply…”. The overpaid and none too fruitful governmental bureaucrats don’t want to see that.
Hi....I’m from the government and I’m here to help........myself.
Lots of Amish and Old Order Mennonite here in St Mary’s County.
I went to an Amish saw mill a few years back for some poplar siding.
It was so loud - near the mill that you had to walk away. There was a
20 something kid working the mill with no hearing protection- when I asked about they said he was born deaf so we put him to work here.
With 4000 members this isn’t a traditional Amish farm.
Far more of a large scale commercial operation.
providing food to ‘club members’ is the practice required to avoid the bs regulations being pushed by the feds.
and now it seems the feds are going to ignore the fact that it’s a ‘private club’ providing goods to its members.
very quickly the question becomes ... why?
why would the feds care? why would they attempt to penetrate a private club?
there’s far more to this than a few hundred gallons of milk.
Sometimes, you don’t know if it is real or if it’s parody.
Maybe the Feds just want to control every facet of your existence.
A couple of decades ago an enterprising farmer here in Ontario tried to bend the rule that says that cow owners can drink unpasteurized milk from their own cows. So he sold shares in his modest number of bovines. Win-win, right? No. Our insidious dairy marketing board and dept of health shut him down.
As Hayek intoned, economic freedom begets political freedom.
The FedGuv is hostile to farming at every level. The big corporate operations can deal with their BS. The small operators get shut down. More concentration in the agricultural sector, and the customer gets screwed.
Ultimately, we become dependent on a few suppliers, and that makes us all vulnerable. Look at what is happening in the energy sector. The price is high, but nobody is ramping up production. The big boys are making more money on smaller volumes, and there are no little guys to break up the game. The entire economy is screwed.
But I can drive less. People gotta eat. If these morons succeed in making food hard to find, it’s gonna get real ugly, real fast.
Seems like I remember this from months back and it was record keeping that was the issue. He would have to use a computer to do the type of record keeping that fedgov wants but he shuns new technology like computers.
Going to email Liberty Counsel, I wonder if they will help Amish Farmers because ultimately would help everyone
It is time to put a up an emergency food supply in your house.
Step 1: Set up some shelving for storage.
Step 2: when shopping, every time you see a good sale on an item with an expiraton date a two or more years in the future, buy a flat or a case.
Step 3: Arrange on your shelves by expiration date by quarters. I have all of my food that will expire in October to December 2022 on one shelf, and everything that will expire in January to March 2023 on the shelf below, etc.
Step 4: As the end of the quarter approaches, take everything that will expire in the next 3 months to your local food bank. They will love you for it, and it will all get distributed with time to spare.
Step 5: Continue to buy food on sale and replenish the empty shelf with food that will expire 2+ years from now.
You have your emergency supply, the poor get fed, and if you were already contributing to your local food bank anyway, it cost you nothing.
States with/without state meat & poultry inspection. https://www.fsis.usda.gov/inspection/apply-grant-inspection/state-inspection-programs/states-and-without-inspection-programs
PA isn’t one of them. That means you have to go through the USDA which costs a ton of money. I think it’s over $1 million to start a facility that USDA will approve of. You also have to pay the salary of a USDA inspector.
https://usdawatch.com/2022-05-01-farmer-faces-fines-jail-producing-clean-meat.html
According to Maddock, the cost to build a 3,000 square foot plant at $400 a square foot, would cost $1.2 million.
Maddock estimates this equipment to cost $300,000 to $400,000 for a small plant.
An additional cost is pre-occupational capital expenses, which includes design of the facility, blueprints, consulting, utility prepayments, soil tests and environment impact. This will equal about 20% of the overall plant, property and equipment, or PPE fees, so for a small plant it would require $300,000 in pre-occupational capital.
https://animalscience.tamu.edu/2020/07/06/so-you-want-to-build-a-slaughter-plant/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-amos-miller-save-our-traditional-foods
Now do the muslims and their cruel halal bleeding out of livestock, letting them suffer.
And THAT is the crux of the matter in so many areas of life. Government in time crowds out those who would live distant from its reach.
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