[pepsionice]

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.

[2nd Amendment]

Used to buy Mennonite cider-unpasteurized and everything. Best cider I ever had!

[Vigilanteman]

Years ago, my Dad was contracted by the state of Minnesota to inspect chicken processing plants in the northwest corner of the state as it was too remote for the normal bureaucrats based in Minneapolis.

He told me that the big corporate commercial operations bordered on sickening and did just the bare minimum they needed to do to get by. There was a family run Mennonite operation, however, that went well above and beyond. Guess where we took our chickens when it was time to harvest?