The story:
HFA members may remember a previous article we published about the FDA invading an Amish farm. The story continues with agents invading the Amish farm in Pennsylvaniayet again at 5 a.m. to inspect cow-milking facilities then followed up the next day with a written notice that the farmer was engaged in interstate sale of raw milk in violation of the Public Health Services Act. A failure to correct the situation could result in “seizure and/or injunction,” the warning letter from Kirk Sooter, district director of the Philadelphia office of the Department of Health and Human Services, told farmer Dan Allgyer of Kinzers, Pa., on Wednesday. The farm invaded Tuesday is the one agents visited in February, driving past “Private Property” signs to demand Allgyer open his property for their inspection, saying, “You have cows. You produce food for human consumption.”
If someone wants to sell raw milk it means that someone wants to buy raw milk. Pretty much, that is the end of the story – no need for government to concern themselves over a transaction which has taken place in human society ever since cows were domesticated.
But here comes the Nanny State – as there is a health risk to consuming raw milk, they’re going to bang down the doors of a farmer and tell him to stop or they’ll take his property away from him. Now, I’m sure the FDA is acting in accordance with federal law – but it shouldn’t be. There shouldn’t be a single, federal law regulating the production and sale of milk. People produced and sold milk long before the United States government came to be, and so such activity is covered under the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution – hands off, Uncle Sam!
But that is not what our Statists want – they want full control because they simply cannot imagine that people will make good decisions on their own. And this is the real problem and what we’re fighting against – the destruction of our liberties by a government grown too large.
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