FDA raids Amish Farm

[HeatherLynn]

We may have the right now but they will not stop trying until those rights are taken away. Its pretty sad when you see so much violence going on and our government is too occupied with harassing farmers to deal with the real problems. Its so upside down and stupid.

 

[crazyhen]

When I was a child to teen I never had lactose intolerance. Raw milk has helpful bacteria in it to help break down the lactose. When I went on pasteurized milk I have had problems with it ever since. If I were younger and healthier I would have a small milk goat or jersey cow. Listen up you younger people do it while you can. Sometimes the government hurts worse than helps when they try to help. They were trying in this case when they made laws to get rid of TB. Some of the big farmers had TB in their herds and people were getting sick. Gloria Jean

 

[AHappychick]

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some states it is legal I have raw milk delivered through a co-op so check the list you may be surprised. There is a web site that has all states and info on who does in in what areas.

 

[lisa new chickens]

Gotta love America...right

 

[Q9]

Curse the FDA. I see it and its tyrranical behavior authorized nowhere in the Constitution. If people want to drink raw milk, they have every right. The FDA needs to back off and keep its ugly nose out of other people's business. Didn't people drink raw milk for most of this country's existence?

 

[BarredBuff]

I just hope it doesnt get this way about eating your own eggs, vegetables and fruits. Then I will be a very peed person considering you put so much work into it and then some big government official comes in and destroys all you have worked for and have destroyed your right to feed your family.

 

[Ferrret]

So apparently I'm new to this "raw" milk idea, for 14 years I just called it milk. It took forever for me to break the habit of shaking the milk jug when we started buying milk. My grandfather raised milking cows for a long time. When they got to be too much of a hassle to care for, we had a cow in the freezer, and started buying milk from the store.

If the Amish are allowing the general public to have the milk, odds are they aren't selling it, they might accept donations for it though.
If the FDA is worried about tuberculosis and other diseases, then they can out right step forward and say so. As far as I have seen, small farmers and the Amish take great care of their animals because that is their lively hood. They aren't going to let a sick cow go unnoticed and they are going to keep proper health checks on the animals. Mass milk production farmers are the one's I'd worry about as it is hard to maintain the same quality of care that you would show a dozen cows when you have 12,000.

The FDA should keep itself to large producers who send their stuff across the country. Small time farmers and home growers should be left to State hands if anyone needs to keep regulation.

 

[usschicago1]

OuR government is TOO BIG for OUR Own Good!

 

[PineappleMama]

I think, big think here, that around here you can have raw milk so long as it's your own... and if you sell it then your customer must come to your farm and get it... therefor acknowledging that it did NOT come from a processing plant... but that could be another state... I know I read it somewhere, just not where... isn't that odd?

Really, I think if the FDA needs something to do then they can actually test products to see if they are safe before throwing them into the public pool. Splenda is my latest annoyance... in the rat testing the rats would rather starve than eat the stuff... a bad sign IMHO... but the rats DID lose weight so the experiment was logged as a success. Human testing was on all of 30 people, with half being placebo'd. One test... not days, weeks, months of usage... in the rats there was thyroid problems with continued use (among other things) which probably explains why they didn't do more extensive testing on people... bad for business. Add to all that that splenda was an accident... chlorinated sugar was not the intended goal, but a byproduct that they ran with. Johnson & Johnson claim that 97% of the product is passed straight through your system... they cannot (or will not) tell you whether the 3% that hits your bloodstream is sugar or chlorine. But, I disagree on it being addictive... I really don't think it is. I think what happens is that your body wants some sugar, so you eat/drink splenda... tastes sweet so your body gets ready for the sugar rush... but it never comes... so then the body then gets cranky and puts out an even stronger call for sugar... this could go on and on if you keep up with the splenda... again, that's just a theory but it seems sane enough to be possible.

Oh man, that went WAY off... sorry... point being there is plenty of work for the FDA to be doing... testing and approving/rejecting medications to help people... testing food vendors for health violations and disease... they should focus on the ones who could be poisoning millions... not a family that would only be poisoning themselves WORST case scenario.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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I still shake the milk jug - cannot pour much less drink milk without shaking it.