Truth Farmer

For those who thought that NAIS was actually dead, it is going to be difficult to keep the delusion going as the USDA APHIS implements the new name, same deal ADT. Yes, a few things have changed with the program. Instead of requiring a “premise identification number” or PIN, it is now called a “Unique Location Identifier”. Instead of requiring traceback to the “farm of origin” or the “unique location” in 24 hours, it is now two business days. Instead of going straight to radio frequency ID tags with the US 840 number right away, they will wait to require that until 18 months after the rule they have up is finalized. Instead of requiring individuals to comply, the compliance will fall to the States. If they don’t meet the benchmarks, States will not be allowed to continue to send animals out of the state. So, as you can see, it is vastly different.

The USDA is accepting comments to their proposed rule until December 9th. While I personally see little reason to make a comment, as I posted my personal Declaration of Independence to the Federal Register on the last NAIS comment period, it may be worthwhile to go ahead and post your thoughts. At least that way you can say you objected.

R-CALF USA has a nice little piece with a Bakers Dozen of objections to the proposed rule. You can read that here. Also, if you want to go ahead and post your thoughts on the rule, you can go through the following process and do so:

1)      Go to http://www.regulations.gov/#!searchResults;rpp=10;po=0;s=APHIS-2009-0091-0001

2)      Find the entry titled “Traceability for Livestock Moving Interstate” with a “posted date” of 08/11/2011.

3)      Just to the right of the date “08/11/2011,” click “Submit a Comment.”

4)      Follow the instructions for submitting your comments that can be written in the box provided.

If there is any doubt that this is an international WTO requirement, and we have been put under global government without our consent, read the following article from New Zealand on their NAIT….Australia’s program is the NLIS. All the same, just different acronyms:

A NEW levy to fund the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme is unnecessary and yet another cost farmers have to bear, says Gisborne Wairoa Federated Farmers president Hamish Cave.

“It is just all too easy to keep asking farmers to pay,” he said.

Farmers are already paying a substantial amount on every cattle beast they send to the works.

“There is $11.40 to the Animal Health Board, $4.20 to Beef and Lamb and $20.70 for the Ministry of Agriculture inspection — That is $36.30 and then another $2.50 to NAIT as well as $4.83 for the new electronic tags is $43.63 — in my opinion that is far too much money to pay before we even get paid for the animal.”

The NAIT scheme is set to start on July 1 next year.

Mr Cave says to cut costs for farmers he would like to see NAIT combine with the AHB.

He accepts the benefits of electronic tagging but wants to see all parties working together for the best outcome for the farmer and the industry.

Mr Cave would also like to see Beef and Lamb New Zealand supporting NAIT financially.

“I know Beef and Lamb are doing a lot of other work but for their $4.20 per animal they could support this a bit, too.

“It’s too easy to keep asking farmers to pay.”

The need for an AHB tag and a new electronic tag was unnecessary cost, once again met by farmers, he says.

“In Australia they have 30 million cattle tagged and a 98 percent retention rate — as long as the tags are put in the right place in the ear, close to the head and when the animal is young, they stay in — so why two tags?”

Farmers in New Zealand could send cattle to sale or slaughter and should only have to pay for an EID button.

Animal Health Board spokesman Nick Hancox said it was the intention of the Government and the industry that NAIT and the AHB be brought together.

“However signals from the industry have been that that does not happen from the outset. Industry owners have indicated it would be best for NAIT to get through the establishment stage and sort out any teething problems before the two organisations could come together.”

The time frame would be likely a year, Mr Hancox said.

The need for two ear tags would also be phased out once NAIT and the AHB were sure it was working as required.

“In the early days of the system in Australia retention of tags was poor. As soon as the NAIT system is working as intended, the AHB tags will be phased out.”

Beef and Lamb chairman Mike Petersen said his organisation did not have any spare cash to volunteer to NAIT.

“The question is which extension programmes would farmers like us to cancel to have money for that. At the end of the day we don’t have a mandate to change what farmers want us to do with the levy money.”

Also, the proposed $2.50 levy was not totally paid on slaughter — about half was incorporated in the cost of a tag, said Mr Petersen.

NAIT was industry-owned and the screws were on to keep the costs as low as possible, he said.

NAIT is calling for submissions from farmers and lifestylers who manage cattle and deer so they get the opportunity to say what they think about the proposed levy system.

Cattle will be in from July 1 next year and deer join the scheme in March 2013.

The Government is funding the building of the NAIT database and a proportion of the scheme’s ongoing operational costs. The balance of operational costs will come from the industry through levies on cattle and deer farmers.

NAIT Limited Chief Executive Russell Burnard said the NAIT Bill currently before Parliament required the ongoing cost of running the NAIT scheme to be recovered.

“We have developed a cost- recovery model in consultation with our industry shareholders (Beef and Lamb New Zealand, DairyNZ, Deer Industry New Zealand).”

“After considering a number of options, we are proposing levies on tags and slaughter for cattle. Based on NAIT Limited’s projected costs, the proposed levy for cattle will be about $2.50 over the lifetime of the animal.

“With differences in the numbers of dairy and beef animals tagged and sent to slaughter, this will mean that the beef and dairy sectors will each pay in proportion to their shareholdings in the scheme.

“With deer, we have followed the Deer Industry New Zealand’s (DINZ) wishes and propose DINZ pays a collective contribution. This mirrors the deer industry’s current contribution to the TB control programme,” Mr Burnard said.

The NAIT scheme would enable animals to be traced quickly and reliably from birth to death or live export.

Information on the location and movement history of animals was essential to ensure a rapid response to a biosecurity outbreak, or contamination of an animal-based food product.

“Improved animal identification and traceability will provide our export markets with assurances around the sourcing of New Zealand’s animal-based food products — assurances competing producers overseas already provide,” Mr Burnard said.

People interested in making a submission have until 23 December to do so. The consultation document is at: http://www.nait.co.nz

Folks, I wish it were different, but the fact is that the entire globe is being “harmonized and standardized”. The best thing we can do to resist is to voice our position-loudly and clearly- and to develop all the direct trade between ourselves that we can. The international harmonization scheme is a recipe for global famine.

(My booklet on how this all works structurally will be finished soon, and when it’s done, it will be available for download. It is my hope to help people to understand the mechanisms so we can fight against this in the best ways possible.)

If you are anywhere near this area, and believe that people have the right to consume food of their choice, you should go and support this group of food freedom activists. While I cannot be there because we don’t have a car that can be trusted to make the drive, I think this is worthwhile and really will help to push the issue to the forefront.Please, if you are near, take the time to stand for the most basic of human rights……

On November 1, 2011 the Raw Milk Freedom Riders made their inaugural run from PA to MD eliciting a statement from the FDA. http://www.thecompletepatient.com/journal/2011/11/4/in-accomplishing-their-goals-michael-schmidt-and-the-raw-mil.html Subsequently, federal and state authorities have launched an all out assault from coast to coast, targeting farmers, buying clubs, and individuals involved with the production or distribution of real milk and other local foods. Over a dozen people or businesses now face various charges, orders, and other enforcement actions; some are even under “federal criminal investigation” and face a trial by grand jury.

Actions:
1.  Join the Raw Milk Freedom Riders as we defy the FDA and transport raw milk across state lines and agents distribute the milk!  www.RawMilkFreedomRiders.com for additional details

2.  Spread the word.  Post to facebook, email, and call local news stations about this deliberate act of Civil Disobedience (see below invitation)

3.  If you are unable to make it, please donate to help cover expenses. http://tinyurl.com/6tduy7a

Raw Milk Freedom Riders to Ride Again
December 8th 2011 IN CHICAGO!
more info at RawMilkFreedomRiders.com

You are invited to join the Raw Milk Freedom Riders, Food Freedom Advocates from around the country, local and national press and Maybe the FDA and law enforcement* at our next Freedom Ride coming to Chicago IL.

Who:      Raw Milk Freedom Riders and Speakers from around the U.S.

What:     100 gallons of Raw Milk and Cookies to be distributed in support of Food Freedom

Where:  From Wisconsin to Chicago.  Rally at Independence Park, 3850 West Irving Park Road, Chicago, IL. 60618

When:   Thursday, December 8, 2011   (11:30am-2:00pm)

Why:     After the first freedom Ride on November 1st in Maryland, the FDA issued a statement saying, in part, they did not “intend” to target individuals transporting raw milk across state lines for their own, individual use. Implicit in this, FDA is admitting their intent to criminally target agents, buying clubs, coops and farmers in their pursuit of raw milk prohibition.
Join us as we call for an end to the prohibition and criminalization of raw milk consumers!
______________________________________________________________________________

The caravan of Freedom Riders will include embedded reporters to broadcast what we are doing and why—to shed light on the FDA’s violent and failing policies.  We are informing the FDA of our intentions and inviting them to the party as we caravan over 100 gallons of raw milk from Wisconsin and then distribute in Chicago at Independence Park.   It is time to challenge the FDA on the law that turns honest parents and farmers into criminals for transporting raw milk across state lines.

Food Freedom heroes Max Kane, David Gumpert, Liz Reitzig, Kathy Pirtle, John Moody, Jim Marlowe and many others dedicated to raw milk choice and food freedom will join us for a rally and peaceful demonstration at Independence Park in Chicago.

Watch as Max Kane invites the FDA to witness as we violate federal law  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK1VpnkANRY&feature=player_embedded

Please invite your friends to the Freedom Ride and rally at Independence Park in Chicago!  Our numbers will show our seriousness!  https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/290165197690562/

We welcome EVERYONE to join us at the rally and help make a HUGE statement to the FDA on our movement toward personal choice, dietary privacy, and food freedom!  Please email questions to the Freedom Riders at rawmilkfreedomriders@gmail.com

For additional information, see www.RawMilkFreedomRiders.com

However my computer situation is in dire straits and effectively on life support. I myself am still warm. I am a Mac user. I love Macs, but mine died. I sent it off to Powerbook Medics who says they have a three day turn around, and ten business days later, they still don’t know what is wrong with it. Grrrr…..

I have an older HP back up and have that running with a full virus protection that is supposed to deep scan every time it runs and do all this super protective stuff, but it is nonetheless trying to die on me as well. Since running IBM format stuff online without virus protection is the cyber equivalent of having anonymous unprotected sex in a gay bar I got the virus protection before I did anything. Too bad for me. This thing seems to have a Trojan that is trying to eat it’s brain.

Then there is my email account. I have had my email addy  of animalwaitress@yahoo.com for about 12 years now. Suddenly they decided that sending out two emails in a single morning is worthy of blocking my account to read only. I am dubbed a spammer for sending two emails to two separate individuals. Amazing. And this has been happening for two weeks.

So, I am having difficulty with my lifestyle and my stupid computers are aggravating me to no end. I wasn’t even able to log onto wordpress for two weeks.Is this personal? Heck if I know, but I am kind of taking it personally at this point.

Hopefully things will even out with this stupidity and I will be able to resume writing instead of fighting to get on and be able to even read.

I would like some cheese with my whine. Make it uninspected, unapproved, raw and from living critters eating real food they are supposed to consume. Like grass.

Speaking of—There is going to be an exercise in civil disobedience across the Pennsylvania and Maryland state lines. Raw Milk will be transported across the lines without permission and then consumed right in front of the FDA headquarters with invitations to enforce their stupid regulation offered to them in advance. If you possibly can, it would be good to go drink some milk right in the tyrants faces. You can find out more at Raw Milk Freedom Riders site.

So if you write me and expect a response, please be aware that I am often incapable of writing you back. If anyone knows a solid way around these technical issues I am experiencing, I welcome your advice. I really am much more of a duck tape and hammers type person, but I can follow directions!

Thanks and be blessed all.

by Doreen Hannes

When the FDA answered FTCLDF (Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund) in the interstate shipment of raw milk suit, they stated four fully repugnant things. That you have no right to, nor does your child have a right to any particular food, you have no right to bodily or physical health, that you have no right to contract, and that they are “rationally” fulfilling their public health mission. It appears that they forgot to include that you have no right to privacy or free association along with no right of contract. With the recent actions against Rawesome, sting operations against Amish farmers, and the absolute destruction of Morningland Dairy, one can only surmise that the FDA, who pulls the strings on state level equivalent agencies, forgot to specifically deny the right to freedom of association guaranteed us under the First Amendment along with many others.

As many people have been covering these continual affronts to our very right to consume food that we want to consume, I don’t feel as compelled to conduct a full review every time I find myself in the position of covering a new travesty of decency. Maybe that’s laziness in the eyes of some, but the truth is we are against the wall in this country with the most basic of human rights, and it’s too late to be nice about it any longer. If people are still unaware that food is a controlled substance, they are not likely to read this article anyway.  Unfortunately, we have another assault that needs to be brought to the attention of those paying attention.

Morningland’s cheese plant has now been shut down for just over one year. They’ve been to court and have filed an appeal on the judge’s order to destroy their wealth, and were taken to court again on June 13^th and found guilty on one of three Contempt of Court charges brought against them for not rolling over and dying when the Milk Board suggested they should. They had to post bond again to keep their cheese from the hands of the destroyers until the legal wrangling is complete. Now the Attorney General says they must give up the names, addresses and phone numbers of individuals who are members in their private association. Denise Dixon says she will go to jail before that happens.

At the first trial, on January 13^th 2011, the principals of Morningland of the Ozarks LLC, Joseph and Denise Dixon, notified the Attorney General’s office, the Missouri Milk Board, and Judge David Dunlap (although he rec’d his notification via mail) that they had closed Morningland of the Ozarks LLC, and had formed a private membership association that they hoped to be able provide with their own cheese once this issue was resolved. In the interim, they purchased cheese from two licensed, inspected facilities and cut it and shipped it to their membership. The Dixons drove to these cheese plants (one inWisconsin and one inKansas) and picked the cheese up. This takes the private group completely out of the accepted realm of commerce.

In his original ruling against Morningland of the Ozarks LLC, Judge Dunlap stipulated that the LLC was the only entity involved in this action. The Attorney General’s office made no move to personally enjoin either one of the Dixons from either making or selling or cutting or wrapping or eating cheese themselves. The Dixons even applied for a tax id number as Morningland Dairy, not Morningland of the Ozarks LLC.

But that doesn’t matter. Trying to make an independent living is now illegal.

The state is the Judge. The Judge says there can be no jury. The state is the Executioner. After all, this is the land of the free the home of the brave, where agencies steal and destroy property with impunity and if we don’t like it, we can leave. That is, if we aren’t already involved in some legal imbroglio.

I digress. But only a little bit.

Judge David Dunlap ruled that Morningland of the Ozarks LLC is to turn over to the Attorney General’s office all sales records (none), all production records (none), all sanitation records (none), all bacteriological test records (none), and all sales records (again?).

Denise and Joseph Dixon produced the invoices from the companies they purchased cheese from, and also invoices with the names redacted of the people they had sent cheese to from Feb 23^rd through present. This wasn’t good enough. The Missouri Attorney General’s office claims that they must have the names, addresses and phone numbers of the private membership association or there will be a $100 per day fine ascribed to a defunct entity, and a defunct private membership association for failure to produce documents. That fine assessment began on August 22^nd as per a letter from the Attorney General’s office.

Joseph and Denise are ready to go to jail before they will turn the names and addresses of the association members over in this action. They mean it. They are asking the court to reconsider it’s ruling to divulge the members names…. But there are things that have to be clarified before they go to jail.

These things make no sense to me in the legal realm of this case. We are dealing with four entities. One is the subject of legal action, that being Morningland of the Ozarks LLC (d/b/a Morningland Dairy). One is Morningland Dairy, the private membership association. The other two are scripturally one, being Joseph and Denise Dixon. The Court, and the Attorney General’s office have stated repeatedly that Morningland of the Ozarks LLC is the only entity involved in this legal action. However, they are comfortable finding a defunct entity, with no income or production, to be in contempt. They are also comfortable with forcing a private association to disclose their membership list in conjunction with a legal proceeding against a separate entity and with requiring the procurement of production records from other entities over which they have no jurisdiction.

If the logic employed by the Missouri Attorney General’s office and Judge Dunlap of Howell County Circuit Court is to apply to all of us (as it will if all of this is upheld), should you purchase some male performance enhancement herbs from anyone, and one of their suppliers is involved in a dispute with say the FDA, then the FDA will have the right to know that you bought such a product, and maybe they will even call you to find out how it worked for you.

Pleasant thought, isn’t it?

The AG’s office makes no bones about their assertion that the Dixons formed their private membership association solely to engage in unlawful activity. They think the Dixons are such hard nosed criminals that they are flaunting the law by letting the Milk Board, the Court and the AG’s office know that they are running a private association under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution. Obviously, the Dixons are criminal because they believe they have the right to provide people with food that the people want and to try to make some money to pay for the electricity to continue to hold their arrested cheese for the inevitable destruction. In the Missouri Attorney General’s eyes, there can be no chance that the Dixons simply want to do what they have been dedicated to doing all along…..Provide living food to living people who share their continued interest in, ummm, living.

I guess we need permission for that now.

Yesterday I spoke with Debe Bell for quite some time about the raid and seizure of her rabbits, the actions of law enforcement and what her plans are regarding her future in the rabbit world. Bob McCarty did an excellent job of chronicling the event and bringing it into the light of public scrutiny, and you must read his article so you have an idea about what happened.

Since we also raise rabbits, and I have raised rabbits nearly my entire life, I know a little bit about them, and about what is normal and abnormal.  I saw the pictures from the Jefferson County, Colorado Sheriff’s Department that are the “evidence”  of extreme neglect and animal abuse. The pictures are, in a word, scary. But the photos need some background information to be understood by laymen. You can view the pictures from the Sheriff’s Office here.

Before you can condemn the lady, or think that it is justifiable to take her $17,000 herd and destroy 20 years of genetics by spaying and neutering all of her rabbits prior to a verdict being rendered as to whether or not she is actually guilty of the 25 charges of animal abuse levied against her, you need to have a little understanding of the scope. Also, you know, that pesky little thing called the 4th Amendment? It’s something we have to demand now…. Even though the Sheriff of every county takes an oath to uphold all of our Constitutionally guaranteed rights, they evidently are unaware what that actually means.

A few facts are germane. The Sheriff’s Department shows 11 pictures. One of an aisle and one of a fan. The fan has hair on it. When you have a rabbit barn, the hair on fans will get out of hand from time to time. So what? The aisle has triple stacked cages. There are water bottles on most of them, and those water bottles look clean. So, again….So what? 3 pics out of 11 are moot.

There are two pics of water dishes (crocks) that are filthy. When you put crocks in a rabbit cage the rabbits will often destroy it in a matter of hours. They drink their fill and then defecate in it. Nasty? Yes, but it’s what they do….and it’s why I only use crocks in an emergency, like when a waterer is broken and I can’t fix or replace it right away. The good thing is that dishes can be rinsed out fairly easily. 5 of 11 pics explained.

Then there are three pictures of Angora rabbits with matted hair. It is my understanding that those were going to be raptor food that weekend. In two days to be precise. So, does that matter?

Finally are pictures of four cages. The cages are bad. I have to say that I would be upset if they were in my barn. However, these are four cages out of 184 cages. Worth an inquiry? Probably….but worth seizing and destroying 20 years of work and violating someone’s rights? I don’t think so.

Finally, we have the search warrant. The warrant is based on an anonymous tip to a tip line that pays for information leading to prosecutions. Notably, the “informant” claims to have visited the rabbitry in May of 2010, and was so appalled by the conditions that they (he or she, I guess) waited fourteen months until there was a potential for a $2,000 payment to report these horrific conditions.

In the search warrant, which arrived six hours after the Sheriff, several deputies, Animal Control and the House Rabbit Society came onto Debe’s property and went into her rabbit barn, a veterinarian named “Dr. Hill” states that the rabbits need to be kept at a maximum temp of 80 degrees. The truth is that 80 degrees is the top of the optimum temperature range for rabbits. If they had to be kept below 80 degrees at all times there would be no rabbits in most of the United States. It was 84 degrees in Debe’s barn after six hours of having the door open on a 94 degree day. Dr Hill also says that rabbit cages have to be cleaned every day. That is just crazy.

Once in awhile you will have a rabbit that needs to have the cage brushed on a daily basis, but that is almost always a doe that has recently had babies, and the poop falls through the wire nearly all the time. Once a week brushing is usually sufficient to keep the cages clean. If you had to wire brush 184 cages once every single day, how much time do you think that would take? Is it necessary for the animal’s health? No. Look closely at rabbit with the most impressive pile of manure in her cage. She is shiny and healthy looking. And that pile of manure is huge. But the rabbit looks good. That particular rabbit is a 17 leg Grand Champion…..and now she is spayed.

Dr. Hill works for Foothills Animal Shelter. They are the ones who have spayed and neutered all these rabbits and are now re-homing them for a fee. Nice, isn’t it? They don’t believe rabbits can live in temps over 80 degrees and they get to profit by spaying neutering and charging a re-homing fee on livestock they never had to invest anything into acquiring. Hmm. Could that be a motive?

I was only able to find one video of Debe Bell showing her rabbitry, and it wasn’t the footage we discussed. She told me that she believed there was video footage on youtube of her barn the day of the raid and seizure, but I couldn’t find that. My main puter is shot and I am dealing with one that I am not too proficient on, so perhaps you may be able to find the footage she spoke about, or  you can look at this footage if you like.

My stand is this, at no time should a person’s property be violated without proper warrants, and proper cause. Due process must be followed before any agency deprives someone of their property. If there is a concern over animal welfare, the course of action should be to contact the owner and give them the opportunity to correct  problems. If an actual problem is not dealt with, then and only then should further action be taken.

What happened to Debe Bell was patently wrong.

Who’s next?

Last night I spoke at a Tea Party meeting in Salem, Arkansason (not surprisingly) the issue of our food and the problems we are facing food freedom. In my opinion, the one thing we must ALL do is know our rights, and protect them against infringement. Certainly no one would argue against our most basic right to eat. Since there are increasing numbers of raids against food providers, we need to be prepared. I am putting up two documents that people should have ready access to in the event of a visit by any agent. These are the Constitutional No Trespass sign, and the Public Servant Questionnaire.

As a reminder, you don’t need to be rude, but you sure as heck need to assert your rights and your knowledge of your rights, or you really don’t have any. I encourage everyone to study this issue out and to modify these documents to fit your location.

On August 6^th, I spoke at the Ozarks PRC Annual Convention. I mentioned a ridiculous idea that is being bandied about regarding re-establishing pre-historic predators in North America. I’ve uploaded the document here and you too can be amazed at the insanity if you care to read it!

The seizure of Debe Bell’s private property inColoradoraises, not only my ire, blood pressure and temperature, but a very serious situation with law enforcement in the country as a whole. Just a reminder, folks, the “Bill of Rights” is not to be violated. PERIOD. Sheriff’s are not supposed to “seize” anything without a properly sworn warrant. The Sheriff in that county in Colorado needs to be held accountable.

In my opinion, the Sheriff’s office there is the one that needs to hear the most about the general outrage and disgust the Citizens have for such tyrannical behavior on the part of Public Servants. Then perhaps the Attorney General of Colorado needs to hear from people as well. If no action is taken to rectify the wrongs that have been done, they should be held accountable.

I want to thank everyone that has been kind enough to be supportive of my continuing efforts to bring the issues we are facing in food to the forefront. We deeply appreciate (and need!) the support and just want you to be blessed in the best way! Thank you, and keep standing for Truth!

Link to the story is at the bottom of the article. Bob McCarty has the inside hook on the Bunny Trail. He does a great job, so no need to duplicate the effort here!

The insanity of this country has become untenable.
Enough is enough already. If you disagree, I want to know why.

=d

by Bob McCarty

http://biggovernment.com/bmccarty/2011/08/11/anonymous-call-to-new-animal-abuse-hotline-leads-to-raid-on-colorado-womans-rabbit-farm/

This morning I did my regular monthly stint on the Power Hour with Joyce Riley. I told her that I would have some rather important documents up on my blog ASAP, and I finally am getting it done!

Here is the Stevenson County Washington Food Freedom Ordinance. If we can get this done in blocks of counties across the various states, we will be able to push the issue to the legislatures and cause the states to act in their proper capacity as interposers of our rights against encroaching federal regulatory schemes. I know “if” is a big word, but as I see it, we have no choice but to push the jurisdictional issue to the forefront and get people to understand that the Constitution is a LIMITING document describing what the feds may do and a constraining document. (Before anyone goes off on me, I understand the Emergency Powers Act, but we need to get more to understand…and then we can do something about it.)

Then there is the infamous FDA response to the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund suit regarding their interstate raw milk ban. This is the document wherein the FDA proclaims that you have no right to consume any particular food, you have no right to bodily or physical health and that you have no right to contract. They also state that they are rationally fulfilling their public health mission.

By the actions of the FDA in the Rawesome raid(s) and other raids, it is easy to see that their public health mission is to destroy the public’s health. (There are many articles out there on the latest Rawesome raid, the one I linked is just one of those!)

I want to thank Joyce for her dedication to the pursuit of truth, she is a blessing!

I ask those who read this to please do all they possibly can to pursue food freedom ordinances in their local areas and to stand with those who unwaveringly pursue freedom.

Today another massive tragedy in the War against real food occurred. Three people were arrested and one cannot even be let out on a $125,000 bond for operating a conspiracy to commit a crime. The crime??? Selling food in a PRIVATE membership club without the licensing permission of the California Dept of Food and Ag. This is AmeriKa. I am disgusted.

My friend and colleague, with loads of solid credentials behind him, David Gumpert wrote a piece on this before catching a plane today, you should read it at his blog. He does a great job, and I commend him for it.

I am cutting and pasting the article here, but you really should click on the link above to visit his blog. David has done monumental amounts of work specifically on raw milk.

In my humble opinion we have reached a new threshold in the fight for food freedom. When you can charge people with crimes for making food available to private members, you cannot say you live in a free country. Here’s the article:

Wednesday

Aug032011

Major New Escalation in War on Food Rights As Federal and Local Agencies Team to Arrest 3 in CA on Criminal Charges Associated with Rawesome Food Club

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 05:41PM

The American government has launched a major new escalation in its campaign against food rights by arresting on criminal charges the manager of the private Rawesome Food Club in Venice, CA, a farmer who supplies the club, and her assistant.

The circumstances of the arrest, following on an investigation by California and federal officials involving purchases of raw dairy products by undercover agents who joined the club, sound eerily similar to the case brought last April against Amish farmer Daniel Allgyer. In that case, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials spent 13 months in an undercover investigation, in which FDA agents joined a Maryland food club under assumed names.

The California arrests, following on a new raid on Rawesome, come just 13 months after the same agencies launched a highly publicized raid on the food club. It re-opened the next day and has been operating since, fighting off efforts by the Los Angeles Building Dept. to shut it down.

Re-opening won’t be so easy this time around, since the club’s manager, James Stewart, is in jail, apparently being held on $125,000 bail.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said the three “were arrested today on criminal conspiracy charges stemming from the alleged illegal production and sale of unpasteurized goat milk, goat cheese and other products.”

“Sharon Ann Palmer, 51 (dob 04/14/1960), James Cecil Stewart, 64 (dob 07/26/1947) and Eugenie Victoria Bloch, 58 (03/17/1953) were charged in a 13-count complaint, BA 385253, which includes four conspiracy counts. Stewart and Bloch were expected to appear in Department 30 in the Foltz Criminal Justice Center Thursday for arraignment, said Deputy District Attorney Kelly Sakir of the District Attorney’s Environmental Law Section. Palmer’s arraignment hearing has not been set.

“Palmer owns Healthy Family Farms, LLC, in Santa Paula, which prosecutors allege has operated without any type of license or permit for milk production since 2007. The business Healthy Family Farms and Palmer are charged in nine of the 13 counts. Bloch works for Palmer and is charged in three conspiracy counts.

“Stewart runs the Venice market Rawesome, which has been in operation for more than six years but has never had any type of business permit or license, prosecutors allege. Stewart is facing 13 counts.

“During a year-long investigation, investigators made undercover purchases of unpasteurized dairy products from Healthy Family Farms stands at Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara county farmers markets and at Rawesome. The products included unpasteurized goat milk, cheese, yogurt and kefir.

The investigation found that Healthy Family Farms and Rawesome customers were required to pay a membership fee of up to $50, or purchase a one-time ‘day pass’ at Rawesome to purchase products there. Bloch reportedly informed undercover operatives that the membership payments and paperwork were needed for ‘legal’ reasons, and they were not supposed to sell dairy products to nonmembers.”

And if you doubt this latest escalation wasn’t well coordinated among American government agencies, consider this from the D.A.’s press release: “Agencies taking part in the ongoing investigation include the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; the California Franchise Tax Board; the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Milk and Dairy Food Safety Branch and the department’s Division of Measurement Standards; the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office; the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health; the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department, the Ventura County Department of Public Health; the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety.” How many is that? Eight, nine? I’m rushing here to catch a plane…

It’s more clear than ever that FDA officials are leading an expanding national effort to smash private food organizations committed to obtaining nutrient-dense foods for their members.========

 Or, How to Gang Rape a Family Business Government Style 

©Doreen Hannes

When the California Department of Food Drugs and Agriculture, the FBI, the FDA, the Los Angeles Police Department and their co-conspirators, raided Rawesome Food Club in Venice, California at gunpoint last June, they were intent on one thing: controlling people’s access to food of their choice.

When the CDFA tested cheese seized in the raid 55 days later and “detected” pathogens in the cheese, a freight train of destruction began to run down Morningland Dairy. This family business had been in business for thirty years with no complaints or illnesses associated with consumption of their cheese.

The owners of the company, Joseph and Denise Dixon originally thought the agencies in charge of the investigation were actually interested in helping them address a problem if the investigation showed there actually was a problem. They thought that the Missouri Milk Board was interested in helping them get back into producing their highly desired cheese.

Unfortunately, nearly a year later, those naïve original thoughts are as absent as cheese making activity at their virtually abandoned cheese plant.

Apparently, the government paid enforcers of truth, justice and a controlled food supply, will not rest until the object of their desire, $250,000 of cheese, is destroyed. With the destruction of that cheese will come the destruction of another family farm.

If actions are any indication of intent, the intent of the Missouri Milk Board with Morningland Dairy has been annihilation from the beginning of the investigation.

As one might imagine, when faced with the destruction of your livelihood, potential loss of your farm and home, complete loss of your business, accusations of wrong doing and ill will, along with separation of your family due to the inevitable continuing saga of bills that must be paid regardless of your circumstances, you might have some feelings about it. You would certainly have some thoughts about it….maybe thoughts like the following.

This prose asks the ineffable question:

“How Many Goons (Bureaucrats) Does it Take to Destroy A Business?”

FDA, Team 1: 3 Goons…..Impress Them

1. Arrive at the business dressed in full camouflage fatigues and serve inspection papers. Make ignorant statements like, “I don’t know how many times a week you milk your cows, but….” and despite the statements illustrating your ignorance, make them believe you have the authority to decide if their operation runs properly.

Impress them.

2. When they question your demands for information unrelated to your inspection, make obvious note of their “failure to cooperate”.

Impress them.

3. When you fail to find any contamination, even though you dig deep into crevices and under bulk tanks to insure that you do, be sure to downplay that failure and continue to impress them with more investigation. You are impressive.

4. When they attempt to limit your ability to confiscate their product, threaten them with an invasion by your sister, the U.S. Marshall.

Impress them.

5. When you close your investigation, be sure to inform them that you will be back to open up another investigation.

They’ll be impressed.

FDA, Team 2-1 Goon…Strong Arm Them

1. Call the plant. When you find that the owners are not there, impress upon the Plant Manager the need to recall all product for the entire year.

Push! Push!

2. Email them with your outline of exactly how to do the recall. Never mind that the owners are not present. Never mind that there has never been an illness or complaint connected to their product. Never mind that the test from another state looks extremely suspicious and mishandled.

Push! Push!

3. Hound the Plant Manger. Use phone, use fax, use email. Even on the weekend. Get that recall done before the owners arrive!

Push! Push!

4. When the owners arrive at the plant before the recall is complete and ask why such a recall is necessary before the ‘facts’ are substantiated, threaten them that you’ll have to issue the recall for them if they do not!

Push! Push!

5. After you’ve forced them to recall, when the owner informs people you forced them to do it, deny it! But don’t fret; your job is completed. You pushed!

Missouri State Milk Board- 3 Goons… Deceive Them

1. Arrive at the plant and pretend to be concerned about the ‘situation’, and assure them that you’ll help them get back in business soon. Make them think you are concerned over the apparent and obvious lack of proper procedure performed by the other state’s officials, though you will not make any effort to question the other state.

Deceive them.

2. When they try to conscientiously test some of their product, introduce them to the testing facility that you have used for years, and with whom you have such a relationship that you can call them up and change things to your specifications even if the test is not yours. Tell them that you don’t know this testing facility, that you just learned of them recently, that you will ‘loan’ them the business card you ‘happened’ to have in your wallet to make a copy but that you’ll need it back in case you might want to contact this facility yourself.

Deceive them.

3. Make them think that you regret that they must do a recall. When the owners insist that the other state’s procedures be investigated, tell them you will look into it, but first, they must do the recall. You really care.

Deceive them.

4. When they question the integrity of your testing facility, and especially when they find out that you and the facility are buddies, make them think you are saving them from poisoning sooooo many people! Make them believe that it’s not important to do a valid scientifically proper test of their product. Make them believe you are doing all that you can do to help them. Make them believe that their healthful product is not even fit to feed to dogs. Make them believe that you do not want to destroy their business.

Deceive them.

5. When they dare to oppose the planned destruction of their business, testify in court that you have been concerned by the inspections you had previously done at their plant. (Deceive!) Do NOT testify that you had repeatedly complimented them on their efforts to improve the plant, or of the fact that you recently approved plans to expand the plant.

Deceive them!

6. When you have the opportunity to help the judge decide upon improvements to require before resuming production of their product, be sure to list expensive changes that are not required in any other facility like theirs. Make the judge believe these changes are necessary! (Deceive!)

        Missouri State Court and Attorney General’s Office-  

                               3 Goons…..Play You’re God

 1. Twist the truth to achieve your goals and disregard any who insist upon proper procedure.

Play that you’re God.

2. Invent false, damning accusations and run with them so you can destroy an already injured enterprise. You don’t need any factual basis for your accusations! You’re playing God! Act like it.

3.  Ignore the truth that you hear in testimonies supporting the business; you needn’t bother heeding it because as God, you make your own “truth”.

4. When you’ve destroyed the business, don’t stop there. Grind your victim into the ground by inventing ways to find them in “contempt of court”. Pay no attention to rules and regulations or precedents they may quote to you. You’re a deity, and fully convinced of your powers. Logic means nothing; it’s a distraction. This is just how you roll. You are all mighty, right?

The answer is Ten

So it takes 10 government goons, with government funding, to kill a small business in under a year.

This is a business that provided for families, and employed six people by making easily digestible, raw milk cheese with beneficial nutrients. They shipped their cheese all over the country and grossed almost $600,000 a year.

Guess that made them a threat to the government.

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