{"id":2927,"date":"2011-05-01T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T08:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2011-05-01T08:15:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T08:15:59","slug":"im_glad_the_food_and_drug_admi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2927","title":{"rendered":"I’m Glad The Food And Drug Administration Is Going After Serious Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately this story is another example of how the government misuses taxpayer dollars.  The story is from the Washington Times<\/a>.  It was posted on Thursday, April 28.<\/p>\n

The federal government announced this week that it will be going to court to stop Rainbow Acres Farm, an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, from selling its contraband to customers in the Washington area.  No, the Amish are not selling illegal herbs or untaxed tobacco–they have sold raw milk to customers who needed it because they had health problems with pasteurized milk.  <\/p>\n

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contends that raw milk can carry harmful bacteria, such as salmonella, E. coli and listeria.  The FDA has gone on the record saying that raw milk should never be consumed.  <\/p>\n

I understand the FDA’s desire to protect public health, but I really think they have gone too far this time.  This case involved a yearlong sting operation which included aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from Rainbow Acres Farm.  I realize we are no longer a society that has a lot of small farms, but in past generations, how many people grew up on farms and routinely drank raw milk?<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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“”I look at this as the FDA is in cahoots with the large milk producers,” said Karin Edgett, a D.C. resident who buys directly from Rainbow Acres. “I don’t want the FDA and my tax dollars to go to shut down a farm that hasn’t had any complaints against it. They’re producing good food, and the consumers are extremely happy with it.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“The FDA’s actions stand in contrast to other areas where the Obama administration has said it will take a hands-off approach to violations of the law, including the use of medical marijuana in states that have approved it, and illegal-immigrant students and youths, whom the administration said recently will not be targets of their enforcement efforts.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The customers of the farm were not happy about the actions of the FDA.  The article reports:<\/p>\n

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“Mr. Allgyer’s customers declined to talk about the operations, and when asked whether they knew what would happen to the farm’s distribution, they said they would have to wait and see.<\/em><\/p>\n

“One of those customers, Liz Reitzig, president of the Maryland Independent Consumers and Farmers Association, said she started looking for raw milk when her oldest daughter began to show signs of not being able to tolerate pasteurized milk.<\/em><\/p>\n

“She first did what’s called cow sharing, which is when a group of people buy shares in owning a cow, and pay a farmer to board and milk the cow. But Maryland outlawed that practice and she was forced to look elsewhere for raw milk, and turned to Mr. Allgyer’s farm.<\/em><\/p>\n

“”We like the way they farm, we love their product, it’s super-high-quality, they’re wonderful. It’s just a wonderful arrangement,” she said.<\/em><\/p>\n

“”FDA really has no idea what they’re talking about when they’re talking about fresh milk. They have no concept – they really don’t understand what it’s like for people like me who have friends and family who can’t drink conventional milk,” Ms. Reitzig said.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Somehow I think the FDA should have better things to do with its time and its money than to hassle an Amish family farm in Pennsylvania.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unfortunately this story is another example of how the government misuses taxpayer dollars.  The story is from the Washington Times.  It was posted on Thursday, April 28. The federal government announced this week that it will be going to court … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}