Posted on 05/17/2011 5:36:05 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Four weeks after the government moved to shut down Amish farmer Dan Allgyer for selling fresh, unpasteurized milk across state lines, angry moms who made up much of his customer base rallied on the Capitol’s grounds Monday to demand that Congress rein in the food police.
The moms milked a cow just across the street from the Senate and served up gallons of fresh milk, playfully daring one another to drink what, if sold across state lines, would be considered contraband product.
“The FDA really screwed up this time. They got between a mom and a farmer,” said Mark McAfee, who runs Organic Pastures Dairy Co. in Fresno, Calif., which under his state’s laws he legally sells at 400 markets, but which he cannot ship across state lines without running afoul of the Food and Drug Administration.
Raw milk has been making a comeback in recent years as consumers try to eat locally and fresh. But the FDA has been fighting back, arguing that there are big risks to drinking fresh milk and that it brings no benefits over the pasteurized version.
The most recent action to garner headlines came last month when the FDA went to court to stop Mr. Allgyer, the Amish farmer who runs Rainbow Acres Farm in Kinzer, Pa., from selling his raw milk to an eager customer base in the Washington region.
The FDA and the Justice Department sought a court injunction after FDA agents conducted a one-year sting operation, complete with fake aliases and lab testing, to determine that the milk they surreptitiously obtained from Mr. Allgyer was, in fact, unpasteurized.
Mr. Allgyer was not at Monday’s rally, but his defenders were infuriated that he had been targeted, and said it shows a government out of control.
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Of course it is, that why, with progess, raw milk became processed milk. Human experience, and human lives, showed the value.
However, you are about to get lectured about how wrong you, and the historical records are.
The clue must have been the tartan-clad worm coming out his backside.... get it, scotch tape worm....
They pump beef cows full of drugs. Fresh foods are better but the government must control.
Everything is illegal in Maryland!
It’s possible to put the chief digestive enzyme, lactase, back in. But the result is weirdly, almost sugary sweet tasting milk if it has sat a few days in the icebox. The same would probably be true of the raw milk if kept like that.
Not for those that are lactose intolerant or have IBS. Real milk is okay though.
Pasteurization and homogenization helped the milk “keep” much longer without spoiling or separating, making wide distribution of a palatable, uniform, safe product possible. It still isn’t the same as raw milk, and if people can get it want to use it then why shouldn’t they get to.
Have been there and done that, we stop selling milk when I was about twelve, but we had a milk cow for years after that, I was the one that milked her, but we aways had a calf that got most of the milk.
Someone doesn’t even know what homogenization and pasteurization ARE.
There is no “oh it is RAW milk - so I will unpackage the gene from histones” that happens with the DNA.
Doesn't happen.
No matter how much weed you smoke with the all natural farmer who told you that ‘RAW is so much more DIGESTIBLE .... man!’
Trip out!
Duh, why do you think “they”, whoever they is pumps beef full of drugs????
You’re wrong but then you’re allowed to be. I have IBS. I can drink the government version of milk.
Trip out!
DUDE!
Oh please. Beef cattle and cows are regularly given antibiotics. Small dairy farmers do not do that. We have small dairy farmers all over here.
That should read “I CAN’T drink the government version of milk.”
Well, "they" don't milk beef critters, nor eat dairy cattle.
At least civilized man doesn't
I seldom click on these raw milk threads, as they tend to be religious in nature.
People should be able to get the kind of milk they want, raw or not. I was commenting about the misguided beliefs some Freepers have that I see when I do click.
The idea that homogenized is not digestible or that raw is better or just fine to drink for those without lactose expression are BOTH wrong.
And I even told you why.
Not to mention the formaldehyde(sp?) that they use to keep the cream homogized,from rising to the top.
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