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Amish farmer Amos Miller can’t sell raw milk as Pa. Ag Department’s case proceeds, judge rules
Lancaster Online ^ | March 1, 2024 | Dan Nephin

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 ...


TOPICS: US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: amish; food; paping; rawmilk; regulation
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To: xxqqzz

Your chances of getting eaten by a polar bear are better than being poisoned by raw milk. 😆


21 posted on 03/03/2024 8:29:35 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: xxqqzz

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.


22 posted on 03/03/2024 8:32:58 AM PST by dforest
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To: xxqqzz

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


23 posted on 03/03/2024 8:36:27 AM PST by bantam
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To: GMThrust
Does anyone know if he is restricted from donating it?

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.

24 posted on 03/03/2024 8:40:51 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Bob434

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?


25 posted on 03/03/2024 8:43:05 AM PST by crz
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To: crz

Thanks- no, i didnt realize that- rules are pretty stringent these days for sure-


26 posted on 03/03/2024 8:46:08 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

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.


27 posted on 03/03/2024 8:51:57 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Bob434
Robert Barnes was interviewed outside the court house and stated that the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture tested everything they could from the Miller farm. They found nothing then hid the data.

This is just another case of lawfare.

28 posted on 03/03/2024 8:57:31 AM PST by The Iceman Cometh
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To: dforest
The government is continuing to pick on these kinds of people because they can't control them.
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Yea, they're Biden's ‘Neanderthals.’
29 posted on 03/03/2024 8:58:15 AM PST by iontheball
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To: crz
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?

Has that actually ever happened ?

30 posted on 03/03/2024 9:07:44 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Agree completely! No comparison.


31 posted on 03/03/2024 9:21:55 AM PST by curious7
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To: iontheball

[[I haven’t thought about those days since I was a boy.]]

lol me either- they were truly good times though-


32 posted on 03/03/2024 9:26:10 AM PST by Bob434
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Yup- many on the left are true scum and try to destroy others for no reason whatsoever except for jealousy and rage- -


33 posted on 03/03/2024 9:30:58 AM PST by Bob434
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To: UCANSEE2

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.


34 posted on 03/03/2024 10:05:18 AM PST by crz
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To: xxqqzz

Our local Amish store sells it legally. It’s only for newborn calves.


35 posted on 03/03/2024 10:06:03 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: crz

“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?


36 posted on 03/03/2024 10:31:09 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: JimRed

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..


37 posted on 03/03/2024 11:00:50 AM PST by crz
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To: xxqqzz

“The ruling is a win for the agriculture department”

This is why!
Unelected bureaucrats creating unlegislated rules and regulations.

Atlas Will Shrug.


38 posted on 03/03/2024 11:07:02 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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To: rovenstinez

And yet people will blindly and ignorantly go on believing that they / we are free. Are forefathers would be ashamed of us all.


39 posted on 03/03/2024 11:15:09 AM PST by 82nd Vet (Better to be a warrior in ta garden than be a gardener in a war.)
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To: dpetty121263

Get ready to slap your forehead.


40 posted on 03/03/2024 11:17:31 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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