Mennonite Farmer is Hauled Away for Selling Raw Milk

[NashVegas]

On April 25, 2008, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Mark Nolt, a Wenger Mennonite (Horse and Buggy Mennonite) dairyman, threatened for months with arrest for selling raw milk without a permit was removed from his property by state troopers.

Jonas Stoltzfus, a friend, fellow farmer, and Church of the Brethen, was asked by Mr. Nolt to speak for him, and said of the raid yesterday - "Six state troopers and a man with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture trespassed onto his property, and stole $20-25,000 of his product and equipment."

Mr. Stoltzfus explained that Mr. Nolt did not have a permit because "he chose to turn his permit back in because it did not cover all the products he was selling. He felt he was being dishonest selling stuff that was not covered by the permit. He is a man of great integrity."
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Stoltzfus commented that Mr Sheridan of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (Stoltzfus does not have the spelling and believes he is with the licensing division) used to work for Dean Foods and Hershey Foods, big corporate operations, and that Sheridan was "jealous that farmers make a better product" and called the raid by Mr. Sheridan "a vendetta."

This case is similar to that involving Meadowsweet Dairy LLC in New York, in that both Pennsylvania and New York allow raw milk sales, but adamantly oppose the sale of other raw dairy products.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cohen04262008.html

I love hearing about these revolts.

http://www.ftcldf.org/

[slackmaster]

1. Damned revenuers

:argh:

[Kali]

2. Regrettably a lot of food safety regulations are now being used

by the very mega-corps (that actually need that kind of regulation) to harass and limit small independent farmer.

[cornermouse]

3. Amazing.

We drank raw milk bought directly from the small farmer for years without any harm.

[Javaman]

4. I get raw milk and raw milk products from a farm here in Texas.

they are inspected by the USDA every two weeks.

[Fireweed247]

5. Wow, what a great job they are doing fighting for food safety...

:rofl:
But why have there been recalls on spinach, peanut butter, alfalfa sprouts, tahini, all kinds of meat products???

And why are they allowed to poison us with Bgh and antibiotics in all the dairy products?

And why are they forcing GM foods on US that other countries, even Africa will not eat?

And why do they keep passing drugs on through that end up causing problems worse than they symptom they are curing?

Are they really trying to protect us? what a bunch of morans...

[sharp_stick]

6. 6 State Troopers to arrest a Mennonite?

I'm surprised they didn't taser this danger to society. What a waste of State resources.