USDA threatens Amish farmer with fines and PRISON time for selling raw milk and grass-fed beef to community
After two people supposedly – emphasis on the word supposedly – got sick from raw milk he provided to his private buyers' club, Amish farmer Amos Miller of the Bird-in-Hand, Penn.-based Miller's Organic Farm is now being relentlessly terrorized by the Unit...
It's because feds and police are bad people. It's really just as simple as that. You give someone too much power without checks or balances, and they go sour. Simple human nature.
Hey all you (never nominated, nor elected) cops! Looking at you!
Yeah, but there were checks and balances. What you've got here is skullduggery.
The federal govt is not the government of the constitution and the states united, but a corporation created to execute the work and requirements of the states united. Sadly, however, the states forgot their role and responsibility, and the federal 'government' flipped everything on its head and made themselves the boss.
It's different nation unto itself, based on Washington DC (which, you will note, is not a state).
It doesn't help that the people who own and run that corporation are ethically insane.
True, but how do we help the farmer and his family? Can we gift money to the farm and he can gift the meat to his circle of families?
"The story reached a climax in March of this year when a federal judge ordered Miller to cease and desist all meat sales and authorized armed US marshals to use “reasonable force” to gain access to Miller’s farm so a court expert could inspect it. The expert—accompanied by the armed marshals—took an inventory of all Miller’s meat, and federal inspectors are now returning every few months to make sure he hasn’t sold any of it."
jackbooted thugs
He should sell it all and tell them he ate it all himself.
Or leave the gate open for hoodlums with hearts of gold who will steal the meat but leave money.
Low hanging safe fruit, not likely the Amish will exercise a 2nd amendment option to defend their rights.
These mighty bold fed fuckers are raiding the
"gun free food zones"
The cream of the crop, the best that was left...
Amish are pacifists, so there's that
And the feds are cowards, so then there's that.
The Plain community is not unarmed.
I hope they lawyer up.
Just can't leave them alone.
Look up Chuck Woolery's the" Amish tax "on screwtube it pretty funny
it is the feds acting on behalf of monsanto and the koch brothers, you cannot farm without paying them!!!
Sheriff's, wake the fuck up. Protect your citizens, U think the Amish won't climb through your window at night and end your life.
More people should help them. This is the ultimate symbol of unwarranted persecution.
After READING through the comments EVERYONE did NOT catch what caused this: "Then, out of nowhere in 2014, two people who consumed Miller’s products later tested positive for listeriosis, which was automatically blamed on his traditional farm. One of the individuals ended up dying.
After two people supposedly – emphasis on the word supposedly – got sick from raw milk he provided to his private buyers’ club, Amish farmer Amos Miller of the Bird-in-Hand, Penn.-based Miller’s Organic Farm is now being relentlessly terrorized by the United States government."
What this farmer needs to do, with an attorney, is ask for the INDIVIDUAL'S AUTOPSY REPORT TO BE READ IN PUBLIC DOCKET...
NOTE: Deceased Name need NOT be used...just a verification that SOMEONE died from this and was ordering from this farm!!!
NOTE: "The infection is most likely to sicken pregnant women and their newborns, adults aged 65 or older, and people with weakened immune systems." https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/index.html
Taking bets that this is a hit job by some radicals...ANYONE???
I....this is old news at this point. Yes it jackboots tyranny, but its not like this is a new incident.
If successful, the next step will be coming after people eating their own farmed meat. Meat is dangerous, it should be raised and butchered only under government supervision. Think about the children those vile farmers are forcing to eat uninspected meat.
This situation is a far cry from how this article is portraying it. First off is the date of this article being behind most of the coverage (months ago). Second is the lack of mention to just how many people this farmer was selling to and why the feds were involved - it was not because of one isolated "supposed" happening and some knee jerk response by an overstepping gov. entity. This is a fairly large "small" farm with over 4k customers from restaurants and private chefs to pretty high end - and able-to-afford-it clientele. They were circumventing regulations and inspections required for farms of this size by the FDA.
I doubt they do anything that needd regulating or safety. The fda isn't God so who the fuck cares if his customers were that plentiful he must be doing it right. So your excuse for the feds is stupid.
Fda. Fuck them. And those who think they are her to help.
I am not a fan of the FDA - is anyone here? An excuse for them this was not... this was being able to dig a little more than one article to see the full picture. This is a major operation and not a small-time farmer. Personally I like to do things by the book. And currently that book says one must follow X,Y,Z safety and health guidelines if you are over a certain size. Maybe take a look at it from a proper capitalist viewpoint as well... I don't care what it is, beef, chicken, gasoline, anything... if I'm chugging along following the rules - maybe some rules that cost quite a bit to follow like extra safety and health guidelines - and someone else comes along offering the same thing but circumvents the guidelines everyone else follows do you think they might have an advantage over others? I see from the downvotes that not everyone that looked at this old topic bothered to research things themselves... whatever - this is a trivial thing in the grand scheme of things... NCSWIC!
So we shit on the guy thatbunderstands what it means to be free and exercises it.
I'm done with the civil compact. Its all regulation for us and freedomFor rhe government.
Brainwashing is deep.
I can't believe people grew food before the government told them it was safe.
It's just like how human beings were all dead before vaccines!