Posted on 03/03/2024 7:08:47 AM PST by xxqqzz
Amish people go into Lancaster County Courthouse for a hearing regarding farmer Amos Miller's raw-dairy business on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.
Upper Leacock farmer Amos Miller cannot sell raw milk or dairy products made from it to the public under an order issued by a Lancaster County judge Friday afternoon.
Judge Thomas Sponaugle’s order also allows the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to inspect any location where Miller packages or distributes raw milk and to test Miller’s dairy products.
The ruling is a win for the agriculture department, which sought to prevent Miller from producing and selling raw milk and products while its lawsuit against him plays out.
(Excerpt) Read more at lancasteronline.com ...
Your chances of getting eaten by a polar bear are better than being poisoned by raw milk. 😆
The government is continuing to pick on these kinds of people because they can’t control them.
If you can’t control them, what do you do?
You ruin them in any way you can.
Pennsylvania is land of government against the people!
I see raw milk being sold in various places in Pa, why is Miller different?
The state is making an example outta him for some reason
COMPLETE state overreach, and state criminal like behavior.
Pa suks
I would imagine he can not. The thrust of the PA Dept of Agriculture argument is "any food for human or animal consumption not approved by us is by definition illegal contraband."
I believe Miller operated a "private club" type operation - one signed-up for the "club," paid a membership fee, and he gave members their products. Even that was deemed illegal.
Not in grade A milk. At the pickup before the truck transfers the milk into the truck, a sample is taken and if ANY undesirable result is identified by that sample the load is rejected...THE WHOLE LOAD. Then, the factory sends out he investigator BEFORE the next scheduled pickup and investigates why the bacterial count is so high and BTW, the higher the count, the less the pay. Any high count and that milk goes for cheese or some other product.
In grade B, I have seen the milk actually turning to cottage cheese in the bulk tank. That milk generally goes for cheese anyhow so it is usually used.
As for extreme dangerous bacteria, the whole load gets rejected.
Did you know, as far as ag goes, that in AZ, if an illegal immigrant is caught on the picking crews in the fields that the whole field of produce has to be destroyed?
Thanks- no, i didnt realize that- rules are pretty stringent these days for sure-
We drank raw milk all my life through to my teenage years. Used to skim the cream off the top for ice cream, shakes etc.
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Me too. Nothing like waking up in the morning for breakfast and reaching for the quart Mason jar in the frig. with a half inch of cream at the top. A couple of swirls with a spoon and you had a real treat to add to your morning cereal - and the wholesome taste of that milk was beyond description. We separated all our milk, but before we began we would draw off a couple of quarts from the tank on the separator. I use to crank the old separator by hand. I had to go slow in getting the separator bowl (centrifuge) up to speed because the entire unit was not bolted down to the floor. It had a bell that would ring with each revolution of the crank as a way to inform you when you when the bowl was spinning at the proper separating speed. I haven’t thought about those days since I was a boy.
This is just another case of lawfare.
Has that actually ever happened ?
Agree completely! No comparison.
[[I haven’t thought about those days since I was a boy.]]
lol me either- they were truly good times though-
Yup- many on the left are true scum and try to destroy others for no reason whatsoever except for jealousy and rage- -
According to the producer I talked to in Yuma, yes it has.
Yuma region is supposed to produce around 90 percent of the nation’s green leafy veggies during the winter months.
So the AZ state rules are strict as a result.
So...there are Mexicans working in those fields. Each and every one of them have to hold valid green cards. And BTW, those Mexican workers are the best police people to prevent illegal workers infiltrating picking crews out in the field...they get shut down, no work.
Our local Amish store sells it legally. It’s only for newborn calves.
“Did you know, as far as ag goes, that in AZ, if an illegal immigrant is caught on the picking crews in the fields that the whole field of produce has to be destroyed?”
Destroyed? Why not simply confiscated to feed the poor?
Because of health reasons. Those illegals carry many diseases that had been nearly eradicated in this country at one time.
I said one time years ago that we will see small pox again in this country. IE we now have uptick in TB as a result of illegal border jumpers.
Now do you see the reason they destroy that crop?
E coli often gets into produce because of unclean handling of these products...dropping their drawers and shitting in the feild and going back to work without washing..
“The ruling is a win for the agriculture department”
This is why!
Unelected bureaucrats creating unlegislated rules and regulations.
Atlas Will Shrug.
And yet people will blindly and ignorantly go on believing that they / we are free. Are forefathers would be ashamed of us all.
Get ready to slap your forehead.
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