Posted on 05/05/2008 3:23:57 AM PDT by Man50D
A rally has been set for tomorrow in front of the magistrate's office in Mt. Holly, Pa., in support of a Mennonite farmer who has brought the wrath of the government on himself for selling raw milk and other products – an act government prosecutors say violates a number of regulations.
That's when the next court hearing is scheduled for Mark Nolt, a Pennsylvania farmer who turned in his state permit to sell raw milk because it didn't allow for the sale of the other products he offered.
"They swooped in ... like a bunch of Vikings, handcuffed me and stole $30,000 worth of my milk, cheese and butter," he told the New York Daily News.
His case is just an example of what the government is trying to do to those who believe – based on medical results – that raw milk is better for them than the processed milk available in most grocery stores, according to Nolt's supporters.
Processed milk, many believe, leads to clogged arteries, strokes and heart attacks.
According to reports published by the Weston A. Price Foundation, results of a study by the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom revealed only one percent of the subjects in an ongoing lifestyle study of 5,000 men suffered heart attacks – if they drank full-fat milk and ate butter rather than margarine.
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Unfortunately you will find many people that can’t make their own decisions and request government assistance in the form of laws to protect themselves from themselves. The problem with that is it denies others individual liberty in the process.
As long as the customer fully knows what he is buying, the gov’t should butt out. Speaking of butts, it is clear that the gov’t has gotten way too big for its britches.
The sad thing is that our goobermint “overlords” don’t realize just how close they are to pushing us over the edge. The historic parallels are clear to anyone with the capability to honestly compare today’s society with that of the 1770’s.
Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Lactose is bad? You should have a clue before you post.
there was a guy who owned alta dena dairy here in socal
who fought the feds, state and county on raw milk all of his life.
he spent millions.
It all depends on how far North you go ~ with everything to the South being “Southern Europe” ~
We need the government to keep you from putting milk in bread mix. Do you have the slightest idea how pervasive this milk cult is? That stuff is everywhere, and they don’t even tell you about it.
I find it ironic, the FEDS go after a farmer selling raw milk/ The FEDS do not allow smoking cigarettes in any federal facility, states and towns prohibit smoking cigarettes in restaurants and bars, but go to any city, town or village and you can buy cocain, canibus, meth or just about any illegal drug you want....NO FEDS there to stop those sales. HAIL TO FEDERAL WATCHDOGS.
I’ve got your goat I see! Bwahahahahaha!!
Not just “raw milk” but ALL MILK. If it’s not processed....
Monday morning hyperbole.
lmao, I was unaware of a milk cult. For real?
Death to all cults!
More laws for everyone!
Throw you copies of the constitution away now!
Absolutely amazing how many folks here have bought the party line on raw milk. Corporate America and their oh so willing accomplices at the USDA are happier than a pig in shit.
muawiyah, I suspect that you a member of the hyper-secret Bonobo Anti-Lactose Liberation Front.
This is a fringe group of unevolved primates who push states for anti-milk and pro-banana legislation from atop the trees in Central America.
BA-LLF has been supportive of Chavez and Ortega both of whom have been intentionally destroying their economies, purportedly because they are stupid Marxists, but actually because their main goal is to shut down dairy farmers.
You are not fooling anyone here...
jas3
It's tough.
But, in the end all the participants are merrily running down the road, heads on fire, chattering about the "evil milk cult".
I was raised on raw milk. Don't recall howling OR exploding.
Just drank a big glass of cold skim milk with my pancakes and sausage. Cold milk and chocolate cake, mmmm. Goes good with PopTarts too.
I’m almost 50 and never had a broke bone (though I’ve done some crazy things on motorcycles and I used to break horses to ride for my horse-training Dad. Is it the milk that I’ve drank all my life? Could be!
Then, most likely, you are a mutant!
We have a couple of “relief valves” of course ~ top and bottom.
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