Posted on 03/10/2010 5:46:00 PM PST by SJackson
NEILLSVILLE (AP) - An Amish livestock farmer who refused to follow a 2005 Wisconsin law requiring him to register his land and livestock has won a legal battle with state regulators.
Clark County Circuit Judge Jon Counsell on March 9 ruled in favor of Emanuel Miller Jr. of Loyal, who was accused of violating the law meant to help regulators track animal diseases.
Some Amish say the tracking system would amount to the "mark of the beast" mentioned in the Bible as being related to Satan.
Counsell determined that the state did not show why alternatives that would not affect Miller's religious freedom would not be just as effective.
Assistant state veterinarian Paul McGraw told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he expects the state to appeal.
NAIS at any level, state or federal, is another government grab at citizens right to privacy. I hope the Amish gentleman wins the appeal.
Yep. Those Amish are ALWAYS being arrested for having sick and ill-treated animals on their farms. *Rolleyes*
I’ll bet they raise mean old pit bulls, too...just for fun! ;)
I’m glad to see it, but you know this is NOT the end of it.
The day they make me register my chickens is the day it becomes ‘Butcherin’ Day’ ‘round here. Ef-em.
Actually at one time (might have changed, I don’t know) there were many Amish puppy mills, at least some with deplorable conditions. Not that that has anything to do with the article, but I remember being surprised to discover that.
As for tracking beef for mad cow purposes, I think we should just let the consumer know if the beef used was in the system or not and let them decide.
What makes you think they are now?
And I believe that Government needs to leave us all (the hell) alone. How’s that? LOL!
The Amish aren’t in our national food chain to any large extent. They sell to locals. I CRINGE to even imagine buying pork or chicken from anyone but the Amish in my area. (We don’t eat beef; not that we’re against it, but we have SO much venison to harvest, it isn’t fiscally responsible to PAY for beef.)
Ever heard of a SINGLE outbreak of any diseased meat from any Amish farm? I buy from them all the time.
Explain to me and the others why you don’t see this as anything other than a land/property grab by Mother Government?
Goodness gracious. Please reread my post and explain how I in any way agreed with what the government is doing here.
And I believe that Government needs to leave us all (the hell) alone. How’s that? LOL!
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Isn’t it mostly mad-cow disease that’s worried about and that’s caused by funky feed of ground up animals?
I don’t think the Amish do that, do they?
I thought that was only used by big farms that gov’t over-sees.
I think we would be healthier and better off if gov’t got out of our business, gov’t makes things worse, not better.
Corruption, lobbyist and greed keep the gov’t from doing what they claim they’ve set out to do.
Oh, I don’t know, perhaps that whole “mark of the beast” thing.
The Amish are not the only ones who believe The Word of God. Are you saying that all Christians are idiots?
No, I’m saying that people that think an agricultural inspection system is a “mark of the beast” are idiots. Don’t you?
Show me where the Amish refused to allow inspections. Show me where they claimed that inspections are the mark of the beast. They're perfectly willing to go along with the inspections. They just won't submit to a government imposed mark as a condition of being allowed to engage in commerce.
Please. Read the third sentence again.
The further away we got from ‘doing it for ourselves’ as a Society, the more Mother Government was able to get her big, fat NOSE under the tent (so to speak) and start micro-managing EVERY aspect of our lives from what we eat to what we drink or smoke, to our reproductive rights, to denegrating our religious beliefs and God-given Constitutional RIGHTS as a Nation, to property rights...and on and on and on!
It’s insanity. And ‘We The People’ let it happen! Grrrr!
Benjamin Franklin was RIGHT. We’d have a Representative Republic...for as long as we could KEEP it!
While I consider it entirely possible — if not likely — that the journalist is misrepresenting their views, I gotta go with stormer here. There is no imaginable way to twist what Revelation says about the mark into a tracking program for livestock. If that IS what it is, then Satan has much more modest ambitions than I’ve been led to believe.
Okay. I read it again. I still don’t believe the Amish are idiots for believing what’s written in The Bible. I don’t see any reason why they should be required to take the mark in order to engage in commerce.
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