Hey everyone,

I realize that many will not be able to make it, but Morningland is going to be in court tomorrow morning at 10am for charges of contempt of court. The way I see it the AG’s office is attempting to cloud jurisdiction between the private association that was founded as Morningland Dairy and Morningland of the Ozarks LLC, the licensed and inspected entity that is the subject of the AG’s suit.

If there is any way that you can, please be at the Howell County Court in West Plains, Missouri for this hearing. The eyes of the public are the only thing that holds the agencies accountable in any way. The Court House is on the Square in West Plains.

You take Bus 63 to Broadway, then take Broadway East to Washington, and take Washington south to the Square. This link to google maps may or may not work, but I am trying in the hope that it does:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

You can read more about this at my blog…Truth Farmer (which is where you are!) -or for a complete overview of the Morningland ordeal, go to the UnCheese Party.

Thank you! and please, forward this to as many as you can!

Doreen

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“It’s dangerous to be right when your government is wrong” -Voltaire- (Maybe not the best guy, but still an excellent quote!)

©Doreen Hannes

 On June 13^th, Morningland Dairy will be in court again despite the fact that the final disposition of their $250,000 cheese inventory is, as yet, undecided.

Earlier this spring, Howell County Circuit Court Judge David Dunlap found for the State in the first trial and Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund is appealing his decision to a higher court.

At the trial in Howell County in January, Morningland Dairy of the Ozarks LLC noticed the judge, the Missouri Milk Board and the Missouri Attorney General’s Office that they had closed the LLC and would no longer operate in the public venue. Instead Morningland Dairy would operate entirely in the private sector through a private association operating under the 1^st and 14^th Amendments to the US Constitution.

After the trial, Morningland began the process of buying cheese from similar licensed suppliers and repackaging and selling this cheese to their private association buyers.  They purchased a separate refrigeration cooler for the new cheese to  ensure segregation from the cheese held under embargo by the Missouri Milk Board since August 26^th, 2010.

The Inspectors Get to Inspect –Just not Everything

On April 13^th, Don Falls and Roger Neill of the Missouri Milk Board showed up at the Morningland Dairy plant intending to conduct an inspection of the facility.  The Plant Manager Jedadiah York, and the eldest Dixon son were there and called Joseph Dixon to inform him of the Milk Board’s presence. Joseph Dixon states that he spoke with Don Falls, and said  “You can inspect the cooler which still holds the Milk Board embargo tag and the cheese in that cooler, but you are not to inspect or go anywhere else in the plant as it is not under your jurisdiction.”

Joseph also says that he did give Don Falls a little piece of his mind, which, from a human standpoint, is completely understandable.  Joe says, “Don Falls stated in court that the amount of cheese in the embargo cooler was his count. He didn’t count the cheese. He just took the FDA count and said it was his. He also stated that the cheese samples sent to Microbe Inotech were his samples, but they were not. So I called him a liar and also told him he couldn’t count as the FDA count he claimed as his own is way off from our count.” Since Joseph has effectively lost his business, had to leave his family and go to work out of state, lost all of his savings, lost nearly a full year of production and a year and a half of sales, one can understand having some animosity to the regulator in charge of the action.

Charges Levied  

Three charges are being levied against Morningland on Monday June 13^th. They are Failure to Allow Inspection, Failure to Implement Required Practices and Unlawful Sale of Embargoed Cheese Product.  One dangerous thing about these charges is that this seems to draw the Dixon’s private association into the State suit against Morningland Dairy of the Ozarks LLC.  The only thing left of the thirty year old company Morningland Dairy of the Ozarks LLC is the cheese under embargo in the cooler.

Joseph says, “Apparently even though he was allowed to inspect the cooler with the embargoed cheese in it, and said that it looked like it was all there to our son and Plant Manager, Don Falls yet again changed his mind and his story after talking to his superiors. Or maybe he just got mad because I called him a liar.”

Styrofoam is Evidence of a Crime

At question in the allegations now being charged against Morningland is whether or not there are any clear jurisdictional boundaries that the State or Federal government cannot cross. If cutting and repackaging cheese is now manufacturing cheese then several families could not go together on a forty pound block of cheese and divide it up amongst themselves without being licensed and inspected.

The “evidence” that Morningland is selling the embargoed cheese is that a member of the private association who runs Clover’s in Columbia Missouri, sold cheese with a Morningland label to Don Falls and Roger Neill.  (Batman and Robin of the Missouri Milk Board?) Also cited in the court filing is that there were bits of styrofoam on the packing room floor which leads to the cooler that is under arrest by the Milk Board.

While the packages of cheese might seem damning, one must remember that Morningland LLC closed down and agreed to not sell any of the embargoed cheese until the legal proceedings were complete. As stated earlier, they also informed the Court, Milk Board and Attorney General’s Office that they had formed a private association.  Considering these things, do styrofoam pieces plus packages of cheese really add up to selling embargoed cheese?  What about the inventory? Is anyone going to check that?

The really funny thing about the inventory is that in the court records there are three different inventory counts offered. Don Falls says 29,000 pounds, Denise Dixon says closer to 39,000 pounds and the judge cites 20,000 pounds. Does anyone really know?  If all the cheese is destroyed, will it matter how much there really is? If it were your livelihood, I would think it would matter to you.

Life Goes On….Kind of

Denise Dixon is going to be the only principal in court on Monday the 13^th. She will be flying back from Ohio where she and her younger children are currently staying taking care of her elderly parents. Joseph is working in Alabama and cannot take time off work to be present at the proceeding.

If the State ultimately fails to destroy the cheese that represents the wealth of this family, they have succeeded in destroying the family’s forward progress and robbing them of their peace. All over cheese that in thirty years never had a complaint of illness or upset associated with it. ==end==

  ===You can read all about Morningland Dairy’s plight and download most of the legal documents at The UnCheese Party.  You can also donate to help the Dixon’s keep their farm and cheese plant so they can hopefully begin making cheese themselves once this court battle is complete.

This is from Sam Garner of We Are Change-Branson. From what I hear, the USDA is now planning on “compromising” with the Dollarhites on their ridiculous fine for selling rabbits, and daring to try to engage in enterprise without the permission of the USDA. I hope everyone who has a chance of attending will do so! I didn’t have enough money for gas to go to the protest last week outside of the USDA office in Ozark, but you can go to We are Change Branson watch videos of several speakers at the event.

We have agencies that are completely, and utterly out of control. The legislators are the only ones that can reign them in…..they just have to want to do it!

On Thursday, June the 2nd, 2011:

We will assemble in front of Congressman Billy Long’s Springfield office at 4:30 P.M and stage a peacefull protest until 6 P.M that evening.

As the USDA has not dropped all fines and allegations against the Dollarhite family, this issue is not over, it has not been resolved. It has become clear that actions from our elected representatives will be necessary to push the USDA to drop all fines and allegations against the Dollarhite family. The USDA has no jurisdiction and thus no right to fine or terrorize citizens of our great state of Missouri for sales that are completed legal and within the laws of the state of Missouri. We will not allow the Dollarhite family to be targeted by Federal Invaders who violate our state rights, we will not tolerate clear violation of Missouri State Sovereignty to go unnoticed, we are proud citizens of the United States of America and the Sovereign State of Missouri, we are fierce in defense of our sovereignty, we will not be tread upon. The protest will include speakers from the Well Fed Neighbor Alliance & Feed Missouri First Coalition.

Let’s show our strength, resolve and our support of the Dollarhites. Any one of us could be next to be targeted.

We, the people, have the right to food sovereignty!

Event Location:
4:30 to 6:00 PM
3232 E. Ridgeview St.
Springfield, MO 65804
(p) 417.889.1800
(f) 417.889.4915

Uncle Sam Destroying Agriculture has been on a rampage in Missouri.  First they accosted a magician for failing to have proper license and registration of the rabbit he pulled out of his hat to entertain children. I wish this weren’t true, but you just can’t make this stuff up! He is supposed to have a license to “exhibit” his rabbit, and be inspected by APHIS to make sure that he is properly tending to the needs of his show bunny….And then, in their opus of insanity, they have assessed a $90,643 dollar fine for grossing about $200 in profits from rabbit sales. What’s more, if they fail to pay this insane fine, they will have their fine raised to $4,000,000! You can read a very detailed and excellent article about this here.

This is all under the AWA (Animal Welfare Act) and the regulations the USDA has written to empower themselves to justify their continued existence and capacity to squash people’s ability to make inroads in agriculture. It is nothing less than tyranny when an agent of the Federal government threatens to “make an example” out of a couple for selling a few bunny rabbits. No one was harmed by the rabbits, no diseases were spread, some of them may have ended up in the stew pot or food chain anyway because, like it or not, rabbits are made out of meat….and they breed like rabbits.

We Are Change (of Branson, Missouri) is putting on a protest outside the USDA offices in Ozark, Missouri on Wednesday, May 25^th from 3-5pm.

We have a war against farms in this country, and it is being waged with your money by agencies who supposedly have a mission to protect and promote agriculture and food. The heads of these agencies, the FDA and the USDA (whom I refer to as the Food Destruction Agency and Uncle Sam Destroying Agriculture) have taken oaths to uphold the Constitution…..HA! The FDA spent a year and half doing a sting on an Amish farmer for selling his milk to individuals wishing to buy it for their own use. NO ONE ever became ill, but that is irrelevant. They claim authority over private transactions and are willing to spend your money to show how strong they are. The sting on Dan Allgyer prompted a protest in DC complete with a cow. Over 400 people showed up there to support common sense over bureaucratic insanity.

Governor Nixon and Attorney General Koster have done nothing ovr the course of the past several years to protect Missourians against overreaching Federal agencies. Koster has sued Morningland Dairy on behalf of the FDA, and put them virtually out of business. He also has supported a suit against Armand Bechard for trying to make a profit from his labor by selling his highly desirable grass fed cow milk to private parties interested in purchasing it. Now, in two instances with bunny rabbits, involving NO interstate commerce of any sort, both Koster and Nixon have done nothing to constrain the USDA from persecuting Citizens of Missouri. Jurisdiction is important, and it seems like these two politicians don’t understand this thing about borders very well.

Please, if you possibly can, come to this protest in Ozark, Missouri. We should make an example out of the USDA and their Mafia style tactics with the citizens of this country. Go here for directions. I’m planning on being there….and I might just take a few rabbits just to raise the hares on the USDA’s collectivist neck. I’ve had all I can stand, and I can’t stand no more!

Why Buy the Cow when You Get the Milk For Free?

 Heritage Areas are National Parks without Disclosure

© Doreen Hannes

The National Park Service has figured out that there isn’t any need to actually acquire land through outright purchase any longer. All they have to do to bring us under Agenda 21 Sustainable Development which they are sworn to promote, is offer a bit more of your great grandchildren’s money to people who will line up at the government trough to “tell your stories”. Then the story tellers set you under an unelected, unaccountable “management entity” who will, through your local officials, let you know what you may and may not do with your property and how much it might cost you to figure out if you can get permission to do what you would like to do. There are a few tools they use to accomplish this, with the dominant one being the establishment of your area as a “National Heritage Area”, or a “Scenic By Way” or a “Preserve America” designation.

This article is going to focus on “Heritage Areas”. As near as I can tell, there are thirty-seven of them in progress across the country and most people are unaware of them and the dangers they pose to private property use and ownership. My hope is to show you how these things are established and also how to, hopefully, effectively fight them.

We’re All Special

I live in a blessed area of the country. The Missouri Ozarks. Not to denigrate other areas, but this area is special for many reasons. One of the reasons it is so special, is that many people before me did an awful lot of work to expose the globalist agenda, particularly regarding the usurpation of private property and the Master Plan of Agenda 21 Sustainable Development. We are so special here that there have actually been references made to us in congressional testimony as the “black helicopter folks in Missouri.” Usually our “black helicopters” are agency documents, but they do indeed still think we are “special”. The definition of a “Heritage Area” from their documents received by FOIA is, and I quote: “National Heritage Areas are places where natural, cultural, historic and scenic resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally important landscape arising from patterns of human activity shaped by geography.”  That is literally everywhere. They think YOU are special too, so look out.

The Missouri Ozarks—Where the NPS Would Like A Nat’l Heritage Area–But Where the Citizens Like Their Heritage of Freedom More.

What the proponents of Heritage Areas want to do is to “tell your stories” and “interpret” them for the “tourists” that they are sure will show up once you have the Act of Congress in place that recognizes that your area is “special”.  They spend a lot of time telling you what Heritage Areas are NOT, and fail to tell you what their own documents say Heritage Areas really are.  They tell you that Heritage Areas are not controlled by the National Park Service.  They won’t infringe in any way on property rights. They will not increase taxes, or use public funds, and that all participation is voluntary and you can “opt-out”. I’ll show these for the stories they really are throughout this article.

We, the Citizens of the Ozarks, told the proponents of the Ozark Highlands National Heritage Area, that we could tell our own story as a short story. A very short story:  “Back Off!”

How about a nice little grant to get you going?

To start with, the way the ne’er-do-well-do-gooders begin the process of establishing a Heritage Area is to form a “board” of specialists that are gifted in the areas of “facilitation”. They then apply for a government grant, from the National Park Service to cover their expenses, and pay their wages, in taking away your property rights.

The Ozark Highlands National Heritage Area group took $185,000 as part of an ARRA (American Recovery and Re-Investment Act) grant. Now, remember they said that this wouldn’t increase taxes. How does the Federal government giving out grant money and then funding up to 1 million dollars per year -as spelled out in every law establishing a Heritage Area-  not increase taxes, or use public funds? The Federal government doesn’t HAVE any money of its own. Every dollar they spend is taken from YOU.  Someone always has to pay for or produce the “free lunch”.

Yet the National Park Service, in a pretty fair stroke of genius, has figured out that they don’t really have to buy land to control it, they can simply pay a “management entity” to meet their criteria and gently, and obscurely, move the area to CEMAT European Rural Heritage standards without actually receiving the consent of the residents of the area. In their Second Century Commission report they have outlined that it isn’t necessary to call an area a national park, just let it be controlled as the NPS is committed to controlling it, and their mission is complete. (Section 7 is Heritage Areas)

The NPS has to approve the Feasibility Study, which it has contracted with the future “management entity” to complete.  There are ten criteria that must be met to do a valid Feasibility Study, most of them involve developing consensus through facilitated meetings that are not overtly about the Heritage Area. The people drawing salary for plotting to remove your property rights will go to local officials and tell them their story about how economically beneficial and lovely this will be and request a letter from the officials saying, “We like it!” based on incomplete information. The NPS, or the group that took the money to do the legwork on the Heritage Area, then asks any legislator to sponsor this special designation and it quickly becomes a literal federal law establishing an area as a “Heritage Area”. Sometimes, as with the Northern Plains Heritage Area, it even happens after the NPS has declined the Feasibility Study as being insufficient!

In our case, those pushing to establish the Ozark Highlands National Heritage Area said they were well aware that the National Park Service had a bad reputation in the region, and thought it best to obscure the NPS level of participation in the Heritage Area. They said that they met with the dominant property rights advocates of the area, and that they were keeping us well informed of their progress. *

Baloney.

The Real Story

Three years ago, a few folks from West Plains, the epicenter of the proposed Heritage Area, called up Russell Wood, President of the Ozarks Property Rights Congress to ask what he thought about at their idea of establishing a Heritage Area here. In short, he told them “It’s a bad idea”, and the meeting ended with promises of keeping him informed about whether or not they would proceed with the idea.

In November of 2010, they again called Mr. Wood and invited him to a meeting to discuss where they were in the process of establishing this Heritage Area.

Eight of us, the Property Rights advocates, and about 10 or 11 of them, the Heritage proponents, attended this meeting on November 22^nd, 2010. Ray Cunio, President of Citizens for Private Property gave them a primer in Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, and had all the books and resources to back it up.  When Bob Parker asked them for their documents, they proudly handed each of us four sheets of promo material explaining that they had taken your money to conduct a feasibility study to establish this Heritage Area, and that it was going to be great for everyone.

When this bit of fluff ruffled Mr. Parker’s feathers and he expressed his indignation at their lack of documents for our review, they assured us that they would get us the pertinent documents ASAP. When we wrapped up the meeting, I told them they had gone as far as they could go without causing us to go to “war” with them, and that while we didn’t want to do that, we certainly were capable, and not afraid to bring this into the court of public opinion if they didn’t stop.

 And then we waited….

A few email exchanges and 5 weeks went by and then they ever so apologetically sent us the “documents”. Lo and behold, the “documents” were the same four pieces of paper they’d handed to us at the meeting in November. Mr. Wood then filed a Freedom of Information request and had to pay almost $120 to get what turned out to be most of the documents.

Those four pieces of paper that they tried to pass off as their “documents” became 816 pages, almost all double sided and containing not one, but two drafts for a feasibility study. Another 100 plus pages were obtained in a second FOIA request. And then they finished their “final draft” for the Feasibility Study, adding another 100 pages to the pile.

This is typical of the transparency and openness of these non-governmental organizations acting on behalf of the federal and state agencies to take away your rights. They like to work in the dark and control you by consensus of specially selected disinformation specialists.

What the Devil’s in the Details?

To get back to the four points bulleted at the beginning of this article, in a nutshell, every one of those points is a lie. If not outright, it is certainly intentionally misleading and without the slightest hat tip to integrity.

At the public meeting we ended up having, we got the facts about the Heritage Area and it’s dangers to the public at large, the proponents passed out yet another couple of sheets to the audience. They were a bit surprised that there were between three and four hundred people at the meeting, and they only had 150 flyers to tell their side of their story. Kind of appropriate, as they are used to telling half the story.

The fact is, that as substantiated by their own documents, the establishment and possibly even nomination of your area as a National Heritage Areas puts you in the position of being considered as a “World Heritage Site” by the UN.  Cheryl K. Chumley did an excellent and short article on this, and you can check that out for the pertinent information here.

There is also a transcript of  Congressional Testimony stating unequivocally that you can NOT opt out of a geographic area. You can’t opt out of the county in which you live. The Heritage Areas are almost all run along county lines.

In the Ozark Highlands National Heritage Area Feasibility Study they state on page 60:

Ozarks Highlands poses an ideal opportunity to apply NHA guidelines that respect the life and culture of an American region. European approaches, such as documented

in the CEMAT European Rural Heritage Observation Guide, can meet broad-based goals of partners throughout Ozarks Highlands region for preservation, conservation, education, economic development, financial sustainability, and interpretation.

When you read the Second Century Commission Report linked above, you find that they say on page 1 of the print out version that we have 59 states… Kinda scary, isn’t it?

Then on page 7, they say, “If the National Park Service conceives itself as serving all the peoples of the world, because that is what the word “American” is coming to mean, it can better fulfill its role in the United States and among nations.”

Page 10 and page 11 of this report deal specifically with NHA’s.  Destroying the idea that the NPS has nothing to do with Heritage Areas, they state the following:

• Incorporate into the draft approaches employed by European nations for preserving parks and other special places….

• Engage the National Park Service institutional culture in support of all such designated areas.

•Parts of the institutional culture that focus on large traditional parks may view National Heritage Areas and other special designations as departures from the norm. It is important to establish that they are not.

•Government action to purchase large tracts of land and even private philanthropic purchase, often meets powerful resistance from individual owners and property rights organizations.

The report goes on to say that they have usually failed in trying to preserve historic cultural locales because they are rather low priority for the resources of the agency. So they think it’s better to have a “management entity” do this work for them. In cases like this it says,”…new approaches such as Heritage Areas, use of preservation easements, or leasing of historic structures may offer better management opportunities than more traditional models.”

Conclusion….At last!

So if they can acquire the management control of the land without actually having to buy it, they think it’s a real good deal. And it is…for them. And another Raw Deal for you.

  Basically, if you want to live under European Spatial and Regional Planning, and be made merchandise of by people who take your money to sell your culture for their benefit while you seek to replace a shingle with a team of bureaucrats waiting in line for you to fill out more forms and receive more permission slips, then you should be for National Heritage Areas.

However, if you are like most of us here in the Ozarks, and aware that there are only two kinds of people….”Those who want to be left alone and those who won’t leave ‘em alone”, then you will be against this management from on high brought to you by people with titles such as “Landscape Historian”, “Folklorist”, and “Interpretive Specialist”.

If you are facing a Heritage Area designation in your area, drag the ones pushing for it kicking and screaming into the full view of the public. Make them talk about the money. They took YOUR money, so they are open to FOIA. Don’t expect them to be co-operative. They only cooperrate with others who think you are for sale. Let them know that you love your heritage, you will protect that heritage, and you don’t need them to tell stories for you in any way, shape, or form.  They say they have backed off here, and finally realized that because of our custom and culture that a “federal NPS designation” is not feasible here. But we will keep watching them. They are like all bureaucrats.

They want to “preserve” your heritage as something quaint and nostalgic. Tell them you want to preserve your freedom; that Freedom is your heritage, and you will NOT accept any substitute.

(Please read the Draft Feasibility Study here along with B. Parker’s article and many other documents related to our fight in this OHNHA battle.)

And we wonder why we are 14 plus trillion dollars in debt…..LOL!!!

From the Washington Times…. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/28/feds-sting-amish-farmer-selling-raw-milk-locally/?page=all#pagebreak

Bloomberg News The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters stand in Silver Spring, Maryland.

By Stephen Dinan

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The Washington Times

9:10 p.m., Thursday, April 28, 2011

A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal government announcing this week that it has gone to court to stop Rainbow Acres Farm from selling its contraband to willing customers in the Washington area.

The product in question: unpasteurized milk.

It’s a battle that’s been going on behind the scenes for years, with natural foods advocates arguing that raw milk, as it’s also known, is healthier than the pasteurized product, while the Food and Drug Administration says raw milk can carry harmful bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli and listeria.

“It is the FDA’s position that raw milk should never be consumed,” said Tamara N. Ward, spokeswoman for the FDA, whose investigators have been looking into Rainbow Acres for months, and who finally last week filed a 10-page complaint in federal court in Pennsylvania seeking an order to stop the farm from shipping across state lines any more raw milk or dairy products made from it.

The farm’s owner, Dan Allgyer, didn’t respond to a message seeking comment, but his customers in the District of Columbia and Maryland were furious at what they said was government overreach.

“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.”

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.

Raw-milk devotees say pasteurization, the process of heating food to kill harmful organisms, eliminates good bacteria as well, and changes the taste and health benefits of the milk. Many raw-milk drinkers say they feel much healthier after changing over to it, and insist they should have the freedom of choice regarding their food.

One defense group says there are as many as 10 million raw-milk consumers in the country. Sales are perfectly legal in 10 states but illegal in 11 states and the District, with the other states having varying restrictions on purchase or consumption.

Many food safety researchers say pasteurization, which became widespread in the 1920s and 1930s, dramatically reduced instances of milk-transmitted diseases such as typhoid fever and diphtheria. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there is no health benefit from raw milk that cannot be obtained from pasteurized milk.

Acting on those conclusions, the FDA uses its regulatory powers over food safety to ban interstate sales of raw milk and has warned several farms to change their practices.

According to the complaint the FDA filed in court, the agency began to look into Mr. Allgyer’s farm in late 2009, when an investigator in their Baltimore office used aliases to sign up for a Yahoo user group for Rainbow Acres‘ customers, and began to place orders under the assumed names for unpasteurized milk.

The orders were delivered to private residences in Maryland, where the investigator, whose name was not disclosed in the documents, would pick them up. By crossing state lines the milk became part of interstate commerce, thus subject to the FDA’s ban on interstate sales of raw milk. The court papers note that the jugs of milk were not labeled – another violation of FDA regulations.

Armed with that information, investigators visited the farm in February 2010, but Mr. Allgyer turned them away. They returned two months later with a warrant, U.S. marshals and a state police trooper, arriving at 5 a.m. for what Mr. Allgyer’s backers called a “raid,” but the FDA said was a lawful inspection.

The investigators said they saw coolers labeled with Maryland town names, and the coolers appeared to contain dairy products. The inspection led to an April 20, 2010, letter from FDA telling Mr. Allgyer to stop selling across state lines.

He instead formed a club and had customers sign an agreement stating they supported his operation, weren’t trying to entrap the owners, and that they would be shareholders in the farm’s produce, paying only for the farmer’s labor.

Customers hoped that would get around the FDA’s definition of “commerce,” putting the exchange outside of the federal government’s purview.

The FDA investigators continued to take shipments, though, and last week went to court to stop the operation.

Ms. Ward, the FDA spokeswoman, didn’t say exactly why they targeted Mr. Allgyer’s farm, but that violations generally are determined either by FDA investigations or by state-obtained evidence.

Pete Kennedy, president of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, said undercover stings are not unheard of.

“It happens quite a bit. It’s almost like they treat raw milk as crack. It’s happened in a number of states, and at the federal level,” he said.

His organization has sued to try to halt FDA enforcement, and the case is pending in federal court in Iowa.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

“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.

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 I have been busy practicing what I preach, and trying to figure out what the “elected representatives” in our state capitol have been quaffing. Not only did they pass this ridiculous HB 209, which is effectively eminent domain for corporate agribiz, but it also allows ALL counties to require “junkyards” to potentially put up a 10′ fence if within 200′ of a State or County road! If you fail to bow to the new state wide zoning, you can be charged with a Calss C misdemeanor, consisting of $300 fine and up to 15 days in jail. If you still fail to bow, then you can be charged with a Class A misdemeanor, up to $1000 in fines and a year in jail. 

 This legislation is ridiculous on ALL counts and definitely subverts local custom and culture and perverts our ability to receive redress for grievances. The way it has been is fine, the way it will be will destroy private property rights in Missouri.

 HB 209 isn’t the only perversion in land rights in the General Assembly, they passed UNANIMOUSLY HB 458 which is the Missouri Future Serfs in the name of AG bill. It is in front of the Senate Ag committee and is gigantic piece of trash. Go to http://www.moga.mo.gov and click on the “joint bill tracking” link. The Type in HB and a space and 458 and read it for yourself. If this passes the State will gobble up farmland and decide who gets to farm it under their standards and by a “commission”. 

 Where is the Constitution? Collecting dust evidently.

 Below is a good editorial on HB 209. No one is touching on the “junk yards”, but that will be the massive revenue generator for the counties. 

 Gotta go plant food…..We’re going to need it!                                                                                                                    St. Louis Post Editorial: Factory farm protection act degrades Missouri’s Constitution

By the Editorial Board STLtoday.com | Posted: Friday, April 29, 2011 12:00 am |

Missouri lawmakers passed House Bill 209 by wide margins earlier this month. It limits the rights of people who own land near large factory farms to recover damages from foul odors and other problems created by huge animal-feeding operations.

This is one of the most noxious pieces of legislation to land on Gov. Jay Nixon’s desk this session.

If the governor needs a reason to veto the bill, he need only remind himself of the oath he took when he was inaugurated, in which he swore to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Missouri.

HB 209 makes a mockery of the state constitution. Lawmakers are trying to vest corporate agricultural interests with the state’s power to take away their neighbors’ full use and enjoyment of their private property.

Mr. Nixon has until Tuesday to sign it or veto it. The choice is easy: Veto.

Article I, Section 26 of the Missouri Constitution provides that “private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without just compensation.”

This constitutional protection doesn’t just limit the state’s power to force the sale of private property, but it also kicks in when state actions amount to a “partial taking,” such as when a public water treatment plant emits noxious odors that interfere with neighbors’ use and enjoyment of their properties.

What’s more, agricultural land enjoys extra protections under state law. Farmland is off limits in eminent domain proceedings. A “condemning authority” is expressly prohibited by state statute from “blighting” any “real property used for agricultural purposes.”

With HB 209, lawmakers would turn these constitutional and statutory protections on their head. They are doing so at the behest of corporate agricultural entities that run giant livestock operations and don’t want to be fully financially liable for the problems they cause their neighbors.

Such CAFOs — concentrated animal-feeding operations — can befoul the air with millions of gallons of hog waste held in open-air lagoons and sprayed across the land. In 2010, a group of 15 small farm families was awarded $11 million in a class-action suit against a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, which operates a 4,300-acre, 80-barn facility in Gentry County in northwest Missouri. The operation processes about 200,000 hogs a year.

HB 209 would limit the liability for CAFO operators. In effect, it grants factory farms the right, for a one-time payment, to devastate property values and take away in perpetuity their neighbors’ use and enjoyment of their property.

As state attorney general, Mr. Nixon pushed back against mega-farm abuses, winning a good reputation among advocates for Missouri’s family farmers. Tim Gibbons, a spokesman for the Missouri Rural Crisis Center, a statewide non-profit that promotes the interests of small farmers, told us the governor knows what it means “to put 80,000 to 100,000 sows next to a farm where a family has lived for generations.”

Mr. Nixon might be reluctant to exercise a veto that very well could be overridden by the Legislature. Missouri lawmakers disgraced themselves across party lines when they passed HB 209 by veto-proof majorities (27-7 in the Senate and 110-45 in the House).

He should veto it anyway, and force rural lawmakers to go home and explain to their constituents why they sold them down a river of hog waste.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/article_a247e52a-1ee0-57f4-becf-6163fa259bfb.html

On November 22nd, 2010, I was invited to a meeting to discuss the issue of a Congressional designation as a “Heritage Area” of a thirteen county region here in southern Missouri. And so began a war. I intend to write a rather lengthy and detailed article concerning the ramification of the establishment of these supposed Heritage Areas, but for now, I simply want to point out that the neer do well do gooders who want to “interpret, and preserve our stories” say they have backed off……Well, the article that they put in the West Plains Quill indicated that they intend to pursue other methods of “preserving our stories”. Here is a letter to one of the main ne’er do well do gooders from my mentor in the Property Rights field, c. Russell Wood, you can surmise a great deal about it from this very short and concise missive:

An open letter to Kris Norman
Ozarks Preservation, INC.

March 23, 2011

Mr. Norman,

When Ray Cunio and I met with you and Mrs. Brenda Bell some six years ago concerning your ambition to form a National Heritage Area, we advised you that we would oppose such action. You, in turn,  assured us you would notify us if you decided to pursue such a designation. Subsequently, you choose to ignore that dialogue and worked under our radar during the ensuing years to achieve your goal  Due to your successful methods of subterfuge, we did not engage in your project until the fall of 2010.

Only after Mr. L.D. Davis reminded you of your promise to inform me did you attempt to contact us and arrange the meeting we had at Cabool in Nov. 2010. At the Cabool meeting we were told there was no documentation or paper work and that the feasibility study was an incomplete work in progress and there was nothing to show. We soon learned there were over 700 pages of relative material in your files and that the draft plan had been compiled at the time we were told it did not exist.

You must have thought we were complete fools or “useful idiots.”

While your effort pulled down about $200,000.00 of taxpayer money to fund you in 2010, we rely on our private resources and time to stave off these unneeded and unwanted designations with their potential regulations and restrictions on our private property.

You should not be surprised that many of our rank and file do not accept at face value your statement of withdrawal based on your past track record. We have compiled a large file of evidence of public opposition to  any Heritage Area or similar designation that, in any way, includes our private property within any proclaimed boundaries. We prepared this file to present to the appropriate congressional committees, Missouri’s congressional delegation,  National Park Service, and any other decision making body involved.

We will retain this file made up of letters from county commissions, newspaper articles and pictures, letters to the editors and complete audio recording of the Mtn. View meeting etc. for future dissemination, as needed, should this or a similar issue. reappear.

I hope I have made our position clear.

Thank you,
c.Russell Wood
President Ozarks Property Right Congress

Farmer’s who are considering planting Monsanto’s genetically engineered and patented life forms had better reconsider. If you take out a magnifying glass and read page 2 of the Monsanto Technology/Stewardship Agreement that all planters of Monsanto seed are required to contract under, you will find that you have put a cloud on your title simply by planting this poison.

Under the section on page 2 of the “Agreement”, the third bullet point says:
“• To accept and continue the obligations of this Monsanto Technology/Stewardship Agreement on any new land purchased or leased by Grower that has Seed planted on it by a previous owner or possessor of the
land; and to notify in writing purchasers or lessees of land owned by Grower that has Seed planted on it that the Monsanto Technology is subject to this Monsanto Technology/Stewardship Agreement and they
must have or obtain their own Monsanto Technology/Stewardship Agreement.”

There is no time limitation placed on the contract, I mean agreement, and while it says it can be terminated by either party in writing, the growers responsibilities remain. As one would expect coming from a company with such a well documented “love” for farmers (more like Pharmers), the contract is tremendously one sided.

The clause regarding liability is intriguing. It’s near the bottom of the second page:

“GROWER’S EXCLUSIVE LIMITED REMEDY: THE EXCLUSIVE REMEDY OF THE Grower AND THE LIMIT OF THE LIABILITY OF MONSANTO OR ANY SELLER FOR ANY AND ALL LOSSES, INJURY OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM
THE USE OR HANDLING OF SEED (INCLUDING CLAIMS BASED IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, PRODUCT LIABILITY, STRICT LIABILITY, TORT, OR OTHERWISE) SHALL BE THE PRICE PAID BY THE Grower FOR THE QUANTITY
OF THE SEED INVOLVED OR, AT THE ELECTION OF MONSANTO OR THE SEED SELLER, THE REPLACEMENT OF THE SEED. IN NO EVENT SHALL MONSANTO OR ANY SELLER BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL,
SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES.”

Meanwhile, Monsanto is being sued again. You can read about this suit by in excess of 50 growers and seed sellers here. They also had some more bad publicity, which would cause concern on liability in a new report that was issued regarding how unsafe glyphosphate actually is in low doses.

However, seeing that Monsanto has a massive team of attorneys on their payroll, they can wedge things up in court for some time. Never mind that the current Administration has flooded the Federal level agencies with Monsanto people….allowing their new GMO’s to be approved quite handily.

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