FDA raids Amish Farm

[dntd]

Sad to say the milk you can legally buy is crap, they have stripped the good stuff from it, added stuff and claim it;s better ha, I hate the fact our food has changes so much in the past 50 years!

 

[Amyable]

The FDA needs to be neutered!!!

If they were really so concerned about the nation's health, they'd be investigating megafarms, GMO's, pesticide/herbicide use in food, etc etc etc, NOT raw milk and family farms. That agency has lost all credibility for me.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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They can't investigate those entities, because they are those entities.
THe bigwigs of the FDA are rotated around as the heads of Monsanto, the FDA/USDA and our Senators and Legislators AND lobbyists.

 

[Ferrret]

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

Ok so sometimes when I'm not paying attention I'll give the jug a shake...

but don't tell anyone!

I'm not a fan of store bought. I actually have been drinking less milk every year since we started buying milk. I may end up not drinking milk more than an odd occasion when I move in with BF because he is lactose intolerant. 2% is too watered down and bland for my taste and I have to mix it with something if I'm going to drink more than a few ounces. Store bought whole milk is ok, but not as common to find, but I still prefer to mix in some chocolate syrup.

Heh, I bought a Milk Chug thing of 2% at the college cafe for some cereal and after trying to drink the remaining 2/3 of it I asked the cafe guy how much it would be if I added some coffee and sugar so I could drink the stuff. He said that was fine and he wouldn't charge me and I ended up with sweet, coffee flavored milk.

As for the FDA and their job, they have a lot of other things to focus on, like approving drugs that help more than hurt with side effects. There are some approved drugs out there that I wouldn't want to take even if I needed them. They can also focus more attention of the food that is being shipped into this country and the conditions it was grown/raised in. It's bad enough when they don't catch a major US producer before something spreads like E. Coli or Mad Cow, if something were brought in from another country that no one in the US had been exposed to, there could be an epidemic. Small pox has been wiped out in the US, but not in a lot of other countries and they stopped giving vaccinations when my Mom was a kid. There is a whole generation of susceptible people just waiting for an outbreak.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

A blogger friend wrote to say that she knows this family. THey live not to far from them.
She said that the FDA is finishing getting rid of raw milk farmers in PA. They saved the Amish and Mennonite farmers for last.

 

[Camelot Farms]

I just want a good ol fashioned glass of UN-pasteurized Apple Cider

 

[Ferrret]

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We try to make cider on a yearly basis. We collect the apples and mash them down in an old fashioned press, strain once, maybe twice and enjoy.
One year we stored the cider in a couple gallon sized glass jugs, and they started to ferment. My older brother wanted to let them ferment so we would open the caps a few times a day to release the pressure. I guess no one checked them for a day or two because one peaceful day we suddenly hear this loud BOOM, like a small cannon going off in the dining room. Glass and cider was everywhere, but fortunately no one was hurt and nothing was damaged. The house smelled of cider for weeks and we were finding wee chunks of glass for months.

Now we use plastic jugs.

Anyone here tap their own maple syrup? We've done that a couple years and my Grandparents do it most years. Homemade syrup is downright delicious.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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We try to make cider on a yearly basis. We collect the apples and mash them down in an old fashioned press, strain once, maybe twice and enjoy.
One year we stored the cider in a couple gallon sized glass jugs, and they started to ferment. My older brother wanted to let them ferment so we would open the caps a few times a day to release the pressure. I guess no one checked them for a day or two because one peaceful day we suddenly hear this loud BOOM, like a small cannon going off in the dining room. Glass and cider was everywhere, but fortunately no one was hurt and nothing was damaged. The house smelled of cider for weeks and we were finding wee chunks of glass for months.

Now we use plastic jugs.

Anyone here tap their own maple syrup? We've done that a couple years and my Grandparents do it most years. Homemade syrup is downright delicious.

We did Birch Syrup this year.
We will be moving to MI next year, and hope to find a couple of Maples near the property to tap.
Thank goodness we will be near a raw dairy, so we can keep getting Real Milk till we get set up with goats.

 

[sune42]

This is all so strange to me. I really thing there are better things people could be doing that going after dairy farmers. I still don't know where I stand on drinking raw milk myself. I am considering it, but good grief, I don't care if anyone else does!

On and side, and kind of unrelated note, I thought the Amish didn't use technology? Guess I better google.

 

[eenie114]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..................... PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID!!!!