Re: The Milk Police

Us homemade cheesemakers mourn!  

Regards,
-Lance

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On May 16, 2011, at 3:49 PM, "david white" <[email protected]> wrote:

> http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1867&Itemid=69
> 
> The Milk Police  
> 
> On April 20th, after a year-long undercover sting operation, armed federal 
> agents acting on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raided the 
> business of Pennsylvanian Amish farmer Dan Allgyer to prevent him from 
> selling his unpasteurized milk to willing, fully-informed customers in 
> Maryland. Federal agents wasted a whole year and who knows how many of our 
> tax dollars posing as customers in order to catch Allgyer committing 
> the "crime" of selling his milk. He was not tricking people into buying it, 
> he was not forcing people to purchase it, and there had been no complaints 
> about his product.   These were completely voluntary transactions, but ones 
> that our nanny-state federal government did not approve of, and so they shut 
> down his business.  The arrogance of the FDA and so many other federal 
> agencies is simply appalling. These types of police state raids on peaceful 
> businessmen, so reminiscent of our tyrannical federal drug war, have no place 
> in a free society.
> 
> The FDA claims its regulatory powers over food safety give it the authority 
> to ban the interstate sales of raw milk, but this is an unconstitutional 
> misapplication of the commerce clause for legislative ends. As we have seen, 
> if the executive branch feels hamstrung by the fact that our framers placed 
> lawmaking authority in the Legislative Branch, they simply make their own 
> laws and call them "regulations." We all know how the Environmental 
> Protection Agency (EPA) uses such bogus regulation authority to harass, 
> hinder, and shut down countless other legitimate businesses.  Sadly, Congress 
> has been far too lax for far too long as the executive branch continues to 
> encroach on its areas of responsibility and thereby undermines our system of 
> government.
> 
> Most Americans understand that if you don't want to drink unpasteurized milk 
> you simply do not buy it. But the federal government solution is pre-dawn 
> raids which destroy the livelihoods of honest, hardworking families in this 
> time of continued economic hardship.
> 
> I am outraged by this raid and the many others like it, and that is why last 
> week I introduced HR 1830, a bill to allow the shipment and distribution of 
> unpasteurized milk and milk products for human consumption across state 
> lines. This legislation removes the unconstitutional restraint on farmers who 
> wish to sell or otherwise distribute, and people who wish to consume, 
> unpasteurized milk and milk products. 
> 
> Many Americans have done their own research and come to the conclusion that 
> unpasteurized milk is healthier than pasteurized milk.  These Americans have 
> the right to consume these products without having the federal government 
> second-guess their judgment or thwart their wishes.  If there are legitimate 
> concerns about the safety of unpasteurized milk, those concerns should be 
> addressed at the state and local level.
> 
> I am hoping my colleagues in the House will join me in promoting individual 
> rights, the original intent of the Constitution, and federalism by 
> cosponsoring this legislation to allow the interstate shipment of 
> unpasteurized milk and milk products for human consumption.
> 
> If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish 
> to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?
> 
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