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Mennonite Arrested for Selling Raw Milk
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Linn Cohen-Cole
Counterpunch
April 26, 2008
On April 25, 2008, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Mark Nolt, a Wenger Mennonite (Horse and Buggy Mennonite) dairyman, threatened for months with arrest for selling raw milk without a permit was removed from his property by state troopers.
Jonas Stoltzfus, a friend, fellow farmer, and Church of the Brethen, was asked by Mr. Nolt to speak for him, and said of the raid yesterday – "Six state troopers and a man with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture trespassed onto his property, and stole $20-25,000 of his product and equipment."
Mr. Stoltzfus explained that Mr. Nolt did not have a permit because "he chose to turn his permit back in because it did not cover all the products he was selling. He felt he was being dishonest selling stuff that was not covered by the permit. He is a man of great integrity."
"According to reports from neighbors and the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, several officials of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture participated in the raid, and while Mark was being transported by police car to the courthouse, PDA officials confiscated $20,000 to $25,000 worth of dairy products and production equipment. Neighbors reported the farm had been closed and that a large group of officials had gathered, with videos prohibited."
"Mr. Nolt was told that people had gotten sick from eating his food, but no one ever came forward and no proof was ever offered."
"This is a Gestapo raid," Jonas Stotlzfus said, "complete with state troopers, raiding a hard-working farmer selling milk to friends and customers. And his customers ARE his friends." Mr. Nolt
Mr. Stoltzfus said of Mr. Nolt, "he is not going to stop [selling raw milk] til he is ready to stop. He is the equivalent of that little black lady in Alabama who wouldn’t go to the back of the bus. He is doing the same thing, he won’t go to the back of bus." Mr. Stoltzfus said "she got arrested for that and so did Mr. Nolt. He ignored [the threat] and kept on selling. He is a courageous man." Mr. Stoltzfuz said "Mark believes it is his right to sell, according to the constitution, just like it was Rosa Park’s right to sit wherever she wanted on the bus. Same deal. There is nothing in the constitution to prevent Mr. Nolt from buying and selling, especially to his friends," Mr. Stoltzfus said.
Stoltzfus commented that Mr Sheridan of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (Stoltzfus does not have the spelling and believes he is with the licensing division) used to work for Dean Foods and Hershey Foods, big corporate operations, and that Sheridan was "jealous that farmers make a better product" and called the raid by Mr. Sheridan "a vendetta."
This case is similar to that involving Meadowsweet Dairy LLC in New York, in that both Pennsylvania and New York allow raw milk sales, but adamantly oppose the sale of other raw dairy products.
Mr. Nolt was doing things the way his community has for generations, selling milk straight from his cows to those he knows.
Mr. Nolt contends that the regulations have not been approved by the legislature and shouldn’t apply to him because he is selling directly to consumers, via private contracts that are outside the purview of the state, making a privilege out of a right he believes he has – the right to private contracts.”
The permitting issue, ostensibly for food safety, is contradicted by a look both at raw milk itself and at its competition, corporate milk – pasteurized and often from cows injected with rBGH.
Four issues stand out:
1. INDEPENDENCE of farmer and customers
Raw milk: Farmer sell raw milk from their own cows, to neighbors and friends at a price farmers set themselves, paid by people who value their product, without a middleman.
A growing number of people prefer raw milk (unpasteurized milk), considering it not only safe but healthier than pasteurized milk because it is still rich in pro-biotics not killed off by pasteurization. l
Farming communities have consumed raw milk for generations. The exchange between farmers and neighbors play a central part in the web of relations sustaining those communities. Yet raw milk is banned in many states.
Corporate milk: Dairy farmers sell their milk to milk "producers" who pasteurize it, may add things to it, bottle it, distribute it, often at great distances. Dairy farmers must accept a price set by others, in a large competitive market. Nothing in the process promotes local farming communities.
"…The system of influence and control..is highly skewed in favor of the corporate and financial system." – Vincente Navarro, (Professor of Health and Social Policy, John Hopkins U.).
2. HEALTH
Raw milk:
"[For years, m]illions [in California] consumed commercial raw milk, … not a single incidence was reported. During the same period, there were many instances of contamination in pasteurized milk, some of which resulted in death. [I]f we withdrew … every food type responsible for a case of food poisoning, there would be virtually nothing left to eat. But only raw milk has been singled out for general removal from the food supply.
"… the bacteria in raw milk is the healthy bacteria of lactic-acid fermentation while the bacteria in pasteurized milk is the bacteria of spoilage. … Both raw and pasteurized milk contain E. coli, normally a benign microorganism. The most likely source of the new strains of virulent E. coli is genetically engineered soy, fed to cows in large commercial dairies. If there is any type of milk likely to harbor these virulent breeds, it is commercial pasteurized milk. … Children fed raw milk have more resistance to TB, scurvy, flu, diphtheria, pneumonia, asthma, allergic skin problems and tooth decay. In addition, their growth and calcium absorption was superior." (In California, there is currently an effort to ban raw milk.
"Four distinct groups of bacteria survive pasteurization….the strep of pasteurized milk are the most frequent cause of rheumatic fever –the most deadly disease of childhood.’" – USDA
Corporate milk:
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During the Clinton administration, a new study was released "conclud[ing] that milk from cows injected with [genetically engineered bovine growth hormone - rBGH) increases risks of breast and colon cancers in humans.
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"rBGH poses an even greater risk to human health than ever considered," warned Samuel Epstein M.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine .... "The FDA and Monsanto have a lot to answer for. Given the cancer risks, and other health concerns, why is rBGH milk still on the market?"
Since 1986, independent scientists have expressed concern about the lack of research on rBGH milk.
Michael Colby, Executive Director of Food and Water said, "Monsanto 's claims that rBGH is perfectly safe have been proven dead wrong today .... Only Monsanto is benefiting from this drug. It's time for dairy companies to side with consumers by adopting a policy that they will not allow rBGH, under any circumstances, to be used by their farmers."
Epstein said: "The entire nation is currently being subjected to a large-scale adulteration of an age-old dietary staple by a poorly characterized and unlabeled biotechnology product which is very different than natural milk."
In 2007 - when Mark Nolt was first arrested for selling raw milk (natural milk) - a citizens' petition to the FDA on rBGH milk showed 30 scientific journals indicating an up-to-7-fold increased risk of breast cancer, and an increased risk of colon and prostate cancern.
3. PROMOTION
Raw milk is sold primarily through word of mouth.
Corporate milk is promoted through large, expensive ad campaigns.
The California Milk Processor Board is now targeting teens:
"Goodby, Silverstein and Partners created a page on MySpace to promote White Gold and the Calcium Twins, a team of new fictitious characters turned rock stars who spread their love of and devotion to milk through music. TV spots, print ads and PR will also support the promotion.
"The Milk Processor Education Program ... is funded by the nation's milk processors ... committed to increasing fluid milk consumption." http://www.thinkaboutyourdrink.com.
4. LABELIING
Raw milk is just milk. Those who buy it know that and seek it out for that reason.
On the corporate side, Monsanto continues pushing bans on labeling rBGH-milk. Customers usually do not know they are consuming rBGH milk.
During its approval process,
"FDA scientist, Dr Richard Burroughs concluded ... Monsanto was manipulating the [test] figures. In 1989 he was sacked after complaining to Congress … To deal with the … controversy Monsanto assembled …PR companies … of which [BURSON-MARSTELLER] was one."
During the Clinton administration, Monsanto employees were appointed to run the FDA. Monsanto’s rBGH – the first genetically engineered product ever, was approved.
"[In]1994, people at the FDA [wrote] an anonymous letter to … Congress, [fearing] retribution … The basis of our concern is that Dr. Margaret Miller … wrote the FDA’s opinion on why milk from [rbGH]-treated cows should not be labeled. However, before coming to the FDA, Dr. Margaret Miller was working for the Monsanto company as a researcher on [rbGH].”
In 1996, there was a press conference on rBGH’s medical risks. "Given the potential health impacts of consumption of milk and other dairy products derived from rBGH treated cows, all such products at a minimum be labeled so that consumers are aware of what they are purchasing and consuming. More prudently the FDA approval of rBGH should be withdrawn until the agency performs adequate long term testing …"
"… Wisconsin, Minnesota, California and Vermont attempted to enforce labelling of milk produced with, and containing, this hormone. Their efforts were thwarted by Burson-Marsteller acting on behalf of these companies."
Burson-Marsteller has been a long-term (now campaign) advisor to Hillary Clinton, through its CEO, Mark Penn. And Monsanto’s effort to ban labeling of the milk continues today.
Banning of labeling of rBGH milk in effect puts millions of Americans into a human experiment with genetic engineering, exposing them to greatly increased risk of cancers. The Nuremberg Code makes clear that experimental subjects must give informed consent.
Mr. Stoltzfus added up losses for Mark Nolt: "Trepass on private property, private personal merchandise stolen, being deprived of a significant amount of hard work he and his family put together. He is being deprived of the opportunity to market his product now, they are throwing it away. It’s a shame."
Mr. Nolt did not have a permit. He has twice lost thousands of dollars of work or material, and faces jail.
Monsanto sells rBGH-milk associated with cancers, Clinton hired Monsanto employees which approved their own genetically engineered product, Hillary Clinton has been silent up to today about the risk rBGH poses to women, PR firms strongly push the milk on all ages. None face jail or fines for altered facts, for PR campaigns encouraging even children to drink rBGH-milk, or for banning labeling of it, which has put the entire US population at medical risk for years. Monsanto, the Clintons, Burson-Marsteller and Goodby, Silverstein and Partners are all making millions.
Mr. Nolt, released after being taken off by state troopers, refused to accept a ride from them. He started walking. Friends gave him a lift home.
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April 26th, 2008 at 11:07 am
that was a very stupid thing to do uncle sam. i have neighbors who are mennonites. they have their own little village and they don’t take s--- from the government. they are good people.
DEATH TO THE NWO
April 26th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I will say it again the time for words has passed the time to fight is now
SO FIGHT UNLESS PEOPLE ARE TOO CHICKENs--- TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS!!!
April 26th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Please list below the things done well by our highly paid “leaders”. Can’t think of anything? I can’t either. Ok, so list one or two things they screw-up. Choose from at least 1,000,000 pieces of crap they drop on us daily. They are giving Evil a bad name.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:17 am
The gov. is completely corrupt. f--- them. They have no business interfering with our lives and choices. We need to uprise, try them for treason and hang them all from the front of the whiltehouse once proven guilty.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:19 am
if there are any people on this website who have land or money they might want to consider starting a commune. if you don’t know what a commune is google it. there are many types of communes from christian communes to hippie communes to eco-villages here in the usa.
i think we should start an “infowarriors commune”. if you agree with most of the information on this website you would be welcome to go and live(or visit) at the infowarriors commune. it would take a few acres up in the mountains to get started. everything is free as long as each commune member does his job(which is only a few hours/day). from what i have seen each commune has gardeners, hunters, fisherman, cooks, carpenters and so forth.
i stayed at a commune in north carolina one time. it was fun. i think it would be great for the like-minded individuals on this site to have a place to gather and possibly live. of course we would bear arms and there is no telling how big this commune could become. this would be a good way to legally start an army up in the hills. i have seen communes as small as 20 people and communes as big as 300 people. you never know this could even become a city.
Infowarriors, USA pop. 434 is what the sign might say one day when someone passes thru. lol
April 26th, 2008 at 11:20 am
gives the ad campaign – got milk? a whole new look, eh?
thank heavens the gov’ment is there to save us from ourselves, whoo! you know if it wasn’t for them we wouldn’t know how to wipe our asses.
thanks big bro – always on top of things for the betterment of the whole machine.
/endsarcasim
April 26th, 2008 at 11:31 am
In Vermont farmers can now sell up to 50 quarts a day but it must be sold at their farm. http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/80070/ But then, cows milk is not good for people. Goats milk has some benefit though. Note that one CAN sell the raw milk in Penn if you have a permit. I see nothing that says the Vermont farmers need a permit, only that they cannot sell more than the 50 qt limit which until recently was 25 qt a day. In Vermont you also don’t ned a permit to own a gun or have it in your car. In most out of the way swimming holes in Vermont one can go naked, and they had to pass an ordinance in one Vermont town recently against nudity cuz some jerks from out of state heard it was technically legal to be nekkid in town and came there and went naked on Main St.! They were not arrested, but now in that town you will be told to put your clothes on by a cop and will only be fined if you refuse. So basically, in most of Vermont you can legally stand by the road in front of your farm butt naked wearing nothing but a holster with a loaded handgun by a stand with your raw milk for sale! I suppose it wouldn’t help sales much unless it were your daughter standing there nekkid.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:32 am
I hope th esalt of the earth will be the ones to dry these fascists out
April 26th, 2008 at 11:35 am
William Morgan(#7) – i have heard a few things about vermont. i heard you guys were considering seceding. i might have to go there sometime. can you tell us more about it?
i don’t know if i would want my small penis being exposed by swimming at the local water hole though. lol
April 26th, 2008 at 11:41 am
this was and outright assult by our government on the freedom loving countrymen of our nation. when our we going to say enough is enough!? but in the same breath i realize that the government is allso trying to provoke the people. so what do we do? how do we react? i have no idea.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I live in NY not too far from PA. I’m going to make a point to buy some milk from Mr. Nolt. (If the goons should ever allow him to do business again). We should support him in any way possible.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Monsanto employees appointed by Clinton’s administration to run the FDA????????????
What CLUSTER-F–K this story reveals.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is doing a great job defending the farmers right to farm. This is an organization which should be supported by farmers and consumers alike. If somebody doesn’t take on the state and big business there will be no more farmers and that will end it for consumers as well. Please, contribute to this fund.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Yep, so many people were getting sick after ingesting his products, yet they kept coming back again & again. That totally makes sense…
This is typical of state level affairs by these agency peons with nothing better to do than screw some guy so they can get themselves up to Grade 15 pay scale instead of 14 (or whatever). But, these goons will get him for violating some obscure Ag&Markets rule, then they’ll come back for all the sales taxes he wasnt collecting, then they’ll get him for not having a permit or violating some stupid zoning reg… it could go on & on. Even if this guy is found innocent, he’s more or less out of business and that’s really a shame.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Kansas it would have never happend…because its leagal!! GO to anywhere else in the world and you’ll find out that dairy products such as cheese’s quality is so much better then the crap they squeeze out of test tubes here by law so slop on our plate because they can’t make cheese with raw milk!!! and your telling me that i should go and buy your milk produced from a steroid layden frankenstein cow that produces 30 gallons of milk a day, or should i go down the road to the farmer who feeds his pure grasses when their not out at pasture!!? This is why America looks so bad to the rest of the world when it comes down to quality in foods, its the damn government in bed with big corporations to sell us s---.
i will drink raw milk, and i wont get arrested
i will not be sucked into the corporate pit of “here drink our milk..make us profit”
US corporate plastic test tube food is for who all choose to consume it
I choose to buy from TRUE american farmers like the poor man who was arrested in PA
what a joke…come and start your business in Kansas
April 26th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
The government is so corrupt. What do they think that people did for hundreds/thousands of years when it came to drinking milk? Do they really think that they boiled the milk when it came out of the cow or goat? It is a joke. Pasterized milk is actually very dangerous to drink. I guess that is why our wonderful government doesn’t want us to drink raw milk so that they can poison us with this doctored up milk.. Read what dr mercola has to say about it at mercola.com.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Miner: Is that your last name?
April 26th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
You’re free to do as they say!
April 26th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I’d like to be able to just get some raw juice. Can’t even have that.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Nothing is sacred! Now they are rail roading the mennonites! Orwellian police state in action.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
#19, You can but a juicer and juice your won veggies and fruit.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
correction “buy”
April 26th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Pasteurized milk is safe, while raw milk can contain harmful bacteria if it comes from industrial farming. In the old days people milked the cows manually. In the industrial farming nipple infections as well as general poor health of the cows is a common thing, thus drinking raw milk from industrial cows might be risky. In my country you can still buy safe raw milk without problems, but in only holds for a couple days. Even though I don’t buy it, since I seem to fart too much afterwards.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
What a bad, bad, bad, man! Selling milk…..without Government intervention? TERRORISM!!!!
April 26th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Got my vaccins&mercury! Got my taser bruises! Got my flouride! GOT MILK????
April 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Raw milk unsafe? come on, that’s totally OUTDATED!
If you only would know what is in your daily legal pasteurized, vitamin D ized, homogenized, aromized, drugized, s---ized Milk, you would quickly change your idea. Besides, problems with health threatening bacteria in milk came AFTER they started mingling milk from different areas all together.
People drinking raw milk from the nearby farmer are the healthiest in the world.
But no, these troopers couldn’t stand this quite and peaceful life of happy people, becoming a black cloud in their troubled, cocained, spoiled minds!
Here’s another raid on religious sects coming up. (You think they would do a raid on the jewish farms in New York?(and they are right to choose for raw milk!, yes!)
April 26th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Bigmama101,
Why do you ask?
April 26th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Miner
Its my husbands last name and he has a lot of relatives all around in that area of the country.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
That’s right my europian brother. Fresh milk’s the best. When I was young I lived in rural Quebec. Knew a farmer who was TOO successful , had to dump the extra milk in the ground. My dad would buy some from it , but they had to do like 40’s Russia or Germany , everything in secret and cover. Now Parmalat and the Italian Mob own all our milk production. And in Lucifer’s system, good(milk) is bad and bad(milk) is good….just about the same for everything.
I think we can agree INSIDERS and those who COMPLY get harassed next to none.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
This actually squeezed a tear out of my eyes. This is sad day in America. The Mennonite people as a whole, are fair, respectful, hard working people. Shutting out the old school farmers, little by little they’ll be nothing to speak of in farmland in the Mid Atlantic. Department of Agriculture needs to prioritize, their agenda. There isn’t going to be any farmland in the Mid Atlantic in another twenty five years. The farmers are working their fields too hard from year to year as it is. No room to grow when everything is golf courses. strip-malls, and whorish overdevelopment. Shame on America!
April 26th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
…Ah-bdi…They need to go to India , and learn to clean their ass holes…b…bdi…before they start opening their…b… big mouths !!!…bdi…but it is a good idea to…b…boil milk before drinking it ( for germs , and cause it’s not very digestible cold !!!)
April 26th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
What’s your Husbands Name?
April 26th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Miner,
Are you a descendent of Sir Thomas Miner?
April 26th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
This is a sad day…we in Iowa have the DNR and the DOA breathing down our necks for everything. Guess what, in a global food crisis we need these small farmers! This is where the real problem lies! They want us to rely on corporate pigs for our food and they want to sieze all private property so we cannot grow our own food!
April 26th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Not that I know of.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Porky,
if you think about the last eighty years, our resistance to germs and such have grown extremely weak. The overuse of antibacterials and harsh cleaning agents have inhibited our ability to develop a natural immunity to these germs. Put that in context with the Pharmacuetical industry for years pushing antibiotics down our throats at the first sight of a sniffle, even it is a virus. Ever heard the expression God made dirt, dirt don’t hurt. We have billions of healthy bacteria strains that actually breed out the bad bacteria in our stomachs.
Most of these are found in dirt and fermented milk products like yogurt. You can’t boil just the bad bacteria out of pasteurized goods. We have set ourselves up drug resistant germs that have 97%-99% mortality rates. The CDC seems very concerned with this.
http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/
April 26th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
When they make yogurt and cheese now they have to reintroduce some of the essential bacterium to restart the fermentation process. It’s like wiping before you crap, it just don’t make sense? I’m on a three week regiment of antibiotics right now because I was bit by a deer tick and got the fever. I’m taking probiotics in attempt to stop the onset of colitis for just this reason. Killing all the good bacteria in my intestines.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
…Ah-bdi…”Aaron”I’m not talking about pasteurizing s--- , i’m talkin’ fresh milk you…b…bdi… boil before using . As for yogurt , it actually kills germs !!! You need to forget antibiotics , and…bdi… discover herbs like Echinacea etc…!!!
April 26th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Hello everybody, konichiwa, er, I’m new here.
April 26th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
If I end up with the lyme’s disease I’ll try anything, or I’ll be stuttering worse than you. I know echinacea will help fatigue and energy. I take the antibiotics just in case. Like I said I got the fever and my lymph node gland was swollen, sure sign of infection. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet, but generally I go the natural way. A good friend of mine runs an organic farm and has all sorts of tinctures and salves from the plants he grows and finds. Pretty cool subject.
April 26th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
…Ah-bdi…”Aaron” There are lot’s of good herbs (and combos) , and if that’s not enough , there is the …ah-bdi…”Ayurveda” to wake up the dead !!!
April 26th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
the problem here is when no retail stores or regulated middle man are involved in the sale of anything there is no oppertunity for politicians to manulipate anything for their benifit.
Its not about what milk is healthier, its about control and manulipation.
anybody who skirts the levers of ecnomic control are treated like they are terrorists
April 26th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. – Tacitus
We are being overwhelmed with laws which only serves to give government more power, gives people the illusion of safety and order, and violate our constitutional rights.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
#36 Aaron Williams – you are right. the only way to get your natural immunity back is to live outdoors for awhile or spend a majority of your time outdoors.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
43___that is so correct…put more rules and ppl will be less responsable.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
In Texas just put a disclaimer,”FOR ANIMAL CONSUMPTION ONLY” a loophole for un-permitted farmers
April 26th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Another reason I’m glad I’ve gone to the paleolithic diet. I don’t need any milk. Neither do you.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:32 am
My family and I are customers of Mr. Nolt. We have used his milk and other items he has for about three years now. He was “raided” last year as well and a huge rally was televised on local news channels. We were there. I assure everyone that his milk is of the highest quality and none of his customers ever became ill. He only sells to people that he knows and trusts.
He has never failed any inspection when he did have a permit, but here in pennsylvania, there has been an increasing trend to close down all “permitted” farms so you can only buy from an “approved” source: the walmarts of the world. No more private sales or healthy food for you. Codex Alimentarius in beginning.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:01 am
MilkBuyer (#48) is correct and clever for noticing that the CODEX ALEMENTARIUS plan is starting to go into effect. People had better WAKE UP and STOP IT NOW or they will be visiting their doctor anythime they want to take supplements like Vitamin C, etc. I am told that in England you now need a prescription to purchase anything stronger then 250mg of Vitamin C. Personally, I do not drink milk because it promotes mucus. However, I would fight for the right of my meighbor to be able to drink RAW milk as they see fit.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Education to who the REAL government is in this country is what is needed. Not more regulation. The people need to TURN OFF THE TELEVISION and read again to educate themselves. MIND CONROL is basically information control and that is what we have in schools, televison and on and on. Anything the organized criminals can do to fool you , the will do. READ READ READ.
April 27th, 2008 at 6:19 am
If your dairyman takes care of his stock, and keeps them healthy, then why presume the products be tainted? It is the products of unhygenic factory dairys that need government oversight. Government men forget that their citizens, of their creation (corporations) are the right subjects of government regulation. Public commerce by idiot corporations, those entitys that mindlessly seek gain and profit for shareholders, must use adulterants to “increase the productiveness of their capital (rGBH)”, and stopgaps like antibiotics (poison) to remedy careless, unhygenic animal husbandry. Dont expect consumers to understand the argument, as they do as they are told. Join your local republican or democrat party and reform them. It’s the 10% that run the show. I think that there are enough revolutioners to take over the partys. Lead!
April 27th, 2008 at 9:31 am
As if this kind of thing isn’t enough, bloggers should check out the NAIS. The National Animal Identification System brought to you by the Dept. of Agriculture. Google it. It is hideous. I called my state office and told them they could stick it up their arses. I will not comply. They even want you to chip your horses and report to the feds every time you go on a trail ride, every time you take your horse off your property you must let them know! It is micro fascist management to the enth degree.
It’s all about controling the food supply, that’s the bottom line. They say it is to protect from bird flu, etc, but bigAg doesnt have to chip every animal like the little guy. They get a one chip per lot pass, so cheap for them. It’s Big Ag that has the dirty conditions and get the sick animals anyway, not the little guy.The backers of this NAIS? Why the big ag meat packers and companies like Conagra and such. Who else of course? Corporate/government/media/industrial/military control. so if you want to raise a couple cows for your own meat and then butcher them it costs too much to be worth and then of course are they “safe”-some guy will come and check and if you do not comply, they will confiscate your animals. Can you imagine having to chip every single chicken? Every rabbit? Every pig? EVERY SINGLE ANIMAL YOU HAVE, EVERY NEW ONE BORN AND EVERY ONE THAT GETS LOOSE- you must report it! So when Billy the Goat wanders off to your neighbors property you must report to the Federal government?
Most of the ranchers and farmers are against this kind of Jack booted thuggery. Ya think?
April 27th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
OKAY… HERE WE HAVE MR. NOLT, AN AMERICAN HERO… TRUE AMERICAN HERO… LIKE ROSA PARKS…. HATE TO RUB IT IN SOMEONE’S FACE AGAIN BUT NAOMI CAMPBELL IS NOT A TRUE HERO BY ANY STANDARDS… THIS DUDE WAS INNOCENT, SHE IS CLEARLY NOT. PLEASE USE RATIONALITY… I LOVE THAT THEY CONTENT-FINDERS ARE USING ARTICLES AGAIN RATHER THAN VIDEOS ALL THE TIME… LOVE YOU FOR BRINGING THE INTEGRITY BACK TO THIS SITE!!!!
April 27th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
All I can say is…SHAME ON YOU GOVERNMENT!
April 27th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
It’s so incredible how many control freaks there are in the world!!
April 27th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Yes, the NAIS, Monsanto’s growth hormorne are all part of the Codex plan. On another note, since people in the united states live in a “consumer” based economy, perhaps the goal is to build up a dependency upon “consumer products” which include food and then price you out of it. Just a thought.
April 27th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
The world drank raw milk for eons.. now “for our safety” they come with jack boots because you don’t have a “permit” to sell raw milk. So if you are a mad scientist from monsanto and you cross species and feed cows gm food and pump them full of hormones that is well and fine and “safe for us”. “Blow up the outside world” – SoundGarden
April 27th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Raw/Real Milk sales are illegal in Colorado (I KNOW the people here are extra stupid) and the only way that someone here can get Real Milk is to buy a share of someone else’s cow. Oh yeah, it’s high dollar and you can only get a gallon per week if you are really lucky. I’M READY FOR THE CALL TO ARMS TO RETURN TO THE CONSTITUTION AND WIPE OUT CORRUPTION AND STUPIDITY.
April 27th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
It’s the same bullsh%?&$ here in Canada. On the Orléans Island near Québec city where I’ve lived, we the people could see all our food including milk, being ‘exported’ and then resold to us at the high price by the stupid agro-transformers cartel. C H A O S. I couldn’t get raw milk anywhere, farmer being fearful; the farmers are on the edge, getting bigger, with south americans workers instead of local people like me…now I had my 7000$ pick up seized by the police and stolen by the garage for an unpaid ticket and I live in a nice compact prison-like city apartement. I also get arrested for the crime of walking on the street coming back working like a slave in a restaurant. We live in a Globalist Bilderberger Illuminati police controlled freak matrix.
all I can say is : try at your best to eat organic raw local food.
Go to your farmer instead of going to a yappy hell angel’s restaurant.
April 28th, 2008 at 2:11 am
…Ah-bdi…I’m in deep s--- , I can’t find my C.I.A. , F.B.I. , N.S.A. , D.E.A. milk clearance I.D. to go …b…bdi…buy milk for my li’ll sucklings , s--- !!! That means I have to go to the…bdi… State Office for an orifice deep scanning and check , to…bdi… get a new one , and I had other things to do !!!
April 28th, 2008 at 7:20 am
Gestapo – You will be the first to go in the coming war………….FREEDOME RINGS!
April 28th, 2008 at 8:31 am
i dont get why humans drink milk past age 8-10. You dont really need it, lactose sucks for those intolerant to milk because they had too much.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Whether or not you are a vegan, vegetarian, fruitatarian, or omnivore, you should have the choice to eat and drink what you want. I personally choose to consume raw milk, and feed it to my children. My son no longer has asthma. The taste is incredible compared to the watery stuff from the store. My children refuse store bought eggs and milk now.
Milk became pasteurized for good reason, outlined in “The Untold Story of Milk” by Ron Schmid.
Interestingly, the quality decreased when cows became confined and fed distillery grains in the 1800’s. Now here we are, 200 years later, and industrial farms are confining cows and feeding them byproducts of ethanol production……. eerily similar stories. The problem was, that the pasteurization killed the bacteria from the dirty, malnourished cows who never saw natural sunlight, but it didn’t do anything for the nutritional quality of the milk, which failed to nourish millions of children.
There is a lot of effort going into severing the tie between farm and consumer. Even Reader’s Digest recently published an article on “Going Green” and recommended that people not buy organic produce because organic farming was less efficient and would require the deforestation of more land for farmland….How stupid do they think people are? How about if we just build fewer suburbs on rich farmland in this country? No wonder people can’t afford food anymore.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:38 am
This is why we need to stand up now. So long as we allow the “ag police” to treat honest and hardworking family farmers this way, they will continue to create and enforce ever more inane rules and regulations on the people producing the healthiest food available to us!
Please consider writing, calling, faxing and/or emailing the POA to tell them about your feelings regarding the way they have treated Mark! The more public involvment, the better for everyone in the end.
It should be his RIGHT, not privilege, to produce his products according to the best methods he knows. It is our RIGHT, not privilege, to purchase and consume foods of our own choice, not some government agency with nothing better to do than harass us and our food producers. After all, how many POA officials both raise and eat the food they regulate? Mark’s family also eats the food he sells.
Its not only raw milk/dairy under attack (BTW – most “lactose intolerant” people are actually allergic to the casein, and do quite well on raw dairy.)
The NAIS program stands to drive small farmers, as well as the Amish, Mennonite, and other religious communities like them out of farming altogether. NAIS covers 29 separate species of livestock – and is only “pseudo-voluntary” at best.
The three phases, premise registration, animal identification, and movement reporting are all problematic. For these folks, phases 2 and 3 are completely out of the question, as they require modern technology that is prohibited.
Please educate yourself about this program while you are standing up for Mark – PA will merely toss him into the fire of NAIS after we stand up to get him out of the frying pan.
Sue Diederich
IICFA – Northern Region
April 30th, 2008 at 8:42 am
weg wants attention so lets just ignore him
January 13th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
http://WWW.REALMILK.COM