The Obama and Holder Justice Department are hoping for a swift conviction against the Amish in a case that seems to be locked solid. They have been the object of a sting operation that has been ongoing for over a year, during that time purchases were made by federal agents using aliases and surepetious homes in the DC area. The Feds feel confident that Americans and the country will be much safer, now that the Amish farm has been busted in a daring predawn raid that went flawlessly and without the gunfire and deaths associated with Ruby Ridge and Waco. One of the most prominent and well known Amish Crime Families has now been neutralized without bloodshed, thanks to a well coordinated raid on the farm of the pacifists. Amish are often considered dangerous because they don’t assimilate and are assumed to keep their weapons well hidden.
The contraband was produced at a farm in Pennsylvania, driven to Maryland and the DC Metro area to be sold in the street and at private homes. Federal agents voiced concern that alliances might possibly be set up between between Islamo Fascist groups and Amish Crime Families. Their contraband was in high demand and there was a high profit margin on this illegal substance. The White contraband known by the public as raw whole milk has now been severely curtailed in the DC area and Mr and Mrs Obama feel a great sense of relief that all the children of DC Metro and Maryland will be drinking FDA approved homogenized and pasteurized milk and that children won’t be setting up the neighborhood businesses comprable to the lemonade stands that kids sometimes set up to learn entrepreneurial skills and crimes associated with profit.
FDA approved milk doesn’t curdle or go sour if you leave it out in the heat, it just goes bad. Rainbow Acres has been selling this contraband to willing customers who seemed to be clamoring for more and more, while claiming their health and well being has improved. The FDA says rubbish, pasteurized is the only milk to drink and to think the public can make these decisions themselves is preposterous, since raw milk can carry bacteria like salmonella, E. coli, and listeria. During the year long sting operation there were no complaints of sickness; actually, the government was taking chances with the public health to allow the sting operation to continue for a year, but they felt it was necessary to have an air tight case for prosecuting these Amish lowlifes.
It is a war that has been raging for years, pitting natural food advocates, who have the audacity to argue that raw milk is healthier than pasteurized, against the full regulatory power of the Food and Drug Administration.
According to Tamara N. Ward, spokeswoman for the FDA, appeared in a chic and stylish Kevlar vest surrounded by FDA agents holding M16s and AK 47s, issued the following statement:
“It is the FDA’s position that raw milk should never be consumed,”
A ten page complaint was filed in federal court in Pennsylvania.
DC metro customers, many of them Liberal voters, have expressed rage at what they see as government overreach. One customer who buys directly from
Rainbow Acres, Karin Edgett voiced her opinion:
“I look at this as the FDA is in cahoots with the large milk producers, 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 Obama Administration has expressed its willingness to allow certain crime to flourish like the usage and growing of medical marijuana and illegal aliens who happen to be here as students and youths? will not be targets of federal “crackdowns” and enforcement efforts. Some illegal aliens youth are involved in gangs that are running drugs and acquiring business skills, but there is a down side to everything.
The fans of raw milk insist that heating food to kill bacteria eliminates beneficial bacteria as well and changes to the flavor and health benefits of milk. Raw milk fans say they feel healthier by consuming raw milk and they should have the freedom to choose their own food; such thoughts are considered novel concepts among Liberal voters.
There are approximately ten million consumers of raw milk in the US. Sales are legal in ten states and illegal in eleven states and the District, a fact that obviously had the president’s wife all in a dither. Most states have restrictions on the sales and transportation of raw milk.
Food researchers are quick to point out that there has been very little milk-transmitted diseases like typhoid fever and diphtheria since pasteurization began in the 20’s and 30’s: there also has been no such diseases running amuck from the raw milk industry. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintain there are no benefits from raw milk that are not present in treated milk; of course to say otherwise would ruin a bureaucratic career.
The FDA is now flexing its regulatory muscle and warning raw milk dairies that they are the watchdogs of American health and they had better conform because the Obamas are in power and it is a Liberal country now.
The complaint reads that in 2009, the agency had an agent ordered milk over the internet under an alias, soon there were a group of agents purchasing milk from Rainbow Farms; sometimes investigations require agents to go undercover at great personal risk to them and their families.
The milk orders were delivered to private residences in Maryland, thus in direct violation of laws pertaining to interstate commerce and transport of raw milk. Thankfully they were able to conclude the investigation in just a little over a year of undercover work. The court papers note that the jugs of milk were not labeled, a situation that suggests even more sinister and insidious violations of the law by these non-assimilating Amish.
Armed with this information, agents converged on the farm in February of 2010 and Mr. Allgyer, the Amish ringleader who owns the farm turned them away in blatant defiance of federal regulatory power. Two months later, the FDA returned with a warrant, U.S. Marshals and a state trooper at 5 AM to do an inspection: Mr Allgyer considered it a “raid”, but the FDA maintains it was a lawful “inspection”.
The investigators, while conducting their non-investigation, but more of an inspection, found milk containers with Maryland town names and the coolers appeared to contain dairy products. This inspection led to a letter being written from the FDA to Mr Allgyer, directing him to desist selling across state lines.
The Amish are known for being devious; he formed a club and had customers sign a paper stating they supported the farm and that they were shareholders in the farm’s produce and agreed to pay the labor costs of the farm and were not buying products.
This was obviously a ploy to subvert the FDA’s definition of the commerce clause of the complaint, putting the exchange beyond the reach or over reach of federal regulatory powers.
The FDA agents continued to receive products and went to court to stop the enterprise.
Pete Kennedy, President of the Farm-To-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, admitted undercover stings are common:
“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.”
The Farm-To-Consumer has sued to stop the FDA enforcement and has a case pending in Iowa.
One of Mr. Allgyer’s, Ms Liz Reitzig, president of the Maryland Independent Consumers and Farmers Association, maintains that she began searching for alternatives when her daughter developed an intolerance to pasteurized milk; eventually, she became a customer of the Rainbow Farm dairy.
“We like the way they farm, we love their product, it’s super-high-quality, they’re wonderful. It’s just a wonderful arrangement. 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.”
While Liberals struggle to institute policies that will control every part of our life and take away our freedom of choice, the Liberal voter is beginning to see the results of their efforts to insure their well being through the Nanny State philosophy of Liberalism.
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The intro to this story was pretty damn funny Skook…Thanks for the early morning laugh!!
I am not a fan of unpasteurized milk, but I fail to understand why intelligent individuals are not allowed to drink it. The purpose of the FDA is to protect consumers from unknown hazards in mass produced foods. People buying from the source know what they are buying. I wonder who sanitized the Kevlar vests after the visit by the FDA to the southern end of the cow.
So it’s ok to decriminalize marijuana but not raw milk? Guess it’s because the we can’t sufficiently fund liberal agendas on the backs of the Amish. The Amish are the real cartels.
Let me get a bead on this,,,,,for a YEAR the government let them walk milk across the border? How many people bought this product? And how many children did this impact? Have none of these people read the studies by the FDA? http://nutrition.about.com/od/askyournutritionist/f/sunlight.htm
For 2 mins of every month the sun can provide all the necessary vitamin D as long as you have a slathering of 50+ sunscreen on. We don’t need no stinkin’ milk!!!!
This idea of ‘wholesome’ milk just is not true. These birther people will tell you anything. They’re racists, too. Milk is white.
I can’t help but think of this line and imagine this administration saying this to the American people,,,,, ‘Surely, I have made my meaning plain. I mean to avenge myself upon you. I deprived your ship (country) of power, and when I swing around, I mean to deprive you of your life.’ – Kahn
Decades ago the local mall here in Atlanta had milk producers bring out their products for a day of testing, I had raw milk mixed with chocolate mix. It was the best drink i have ever tasted. They also made ice cream with raw milk that did not need a bunch of sugar in it to be great. Thousands of people were there and i don’t recall anyone getting sick…..
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http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/id/tuberculosis/countries/lac/mexico_profile.html
In the mean time, no one was stricken with milk borne diseases, but 10,000 aliens a week have poured across our Southern Border.
Tuberculosis was an unknown and forgotten disease in the US, but thanks to Obama’s open borders idea via George Soros, you may yet have the opportunity to contract tuberculosis in your life time.
“Tuberculosis (TB) is a public health problem in Mexico and remains of great interest to the United States, given the shared borders and immigration flow between the two countries. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Global TB Report 2009, Mexico had an estimated 21,283 TB cases in 2007, with an estimated incidence rate of 20 cases per 100,000 population. The National TB Control Program (NTCP) began implementing DOTS (the internationally recommended strategy for TB control) in selected demonstration areas in 1996, and, according to WHO estimates, DOTS population coverage reached 100 percent in 2005, but declined slightly in 2007. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB is a concern, with 2.4 percent of new cases being drug resistant. Mexico received approval from the Green Light Committee (GLC) to expand access to second-line TB drugs. Extensively drug-resistant TB also was confirmed in Mexico in February 2007.”
One of the reasons for people applying for immigration and going through the process was to insure that we kept diseases out of the country. Obama and country is moving on raw whole milk that has expanded beyond a neighbor dairy concept and is stepping on the toes of big dairy who most be a big contributor; otherwise, what’s a few cases of drug resistant strains of tuberculosis compared to a dairy serving the needs of tens of thousands of customers with healthy milk.
Ok, Amish get the full attention of the Holder DOJ yet the New Black Panther Party Thugs that intimidated Voters outside a Polling Station in Philly get a walk. Tell me what’s wrong with this picture. Anyone…
So am I to understand from what is omitted in this article is that Obama and Holder’s justice dept. will not go after chocolate milk producers?
OT, sometimes the appearance of being tough on crime is more important than actually being tough on crime.
The Amish with their adherence to traditional ways are considered by some to be seditious in nature, despite the outward appearances that they are pacifists and gentle by nature. Their whole lifestyle could be a ruse to lead us into complacency; thus we tend to overlook these crime families with the funny sounding foreign names.
Holder’s on a rampage, he needs convictions, unlawful transport of raw milk is as good a place as any to secure convictions. His job as the top American law enforcement officer is to protect America from scum like this. The Taliban and Al Qaeda Terrorists and racist voter intimidation suspects be damned, we have people selling raw milk in the capital.
Two things.
One: TB.
California dairies had not been closed due to TB for decades.
But an illegal lied about his paperwork to get a dairy farm job. (What else is new?)
He had TB.
California lost more than a billion dollars in our economy because of one man.
Two: Health of dairy farms.
I used to have a friend who was a dairy farmer for Alta Dena Dairy.
He and I took the back roads near Apple Valley when there were lots of dairies there.
Just by smelling the odor from each farm he could tell you what was wrong or right with the cows.
Too much antibiotic.
Too little clover, too much cheap feed.
On and on.
Then we came by a sweet-smelling dairy.
He said, before we ever got to a sign, this is a healthy dairy.
It was another Alta Dena Dairy.
In those days only Alta Dena Dairy could sell raw milk to health food stores.
Nan, I often drive by some of those commercial dairies; the smell is bad enough to drive a pit bull out of a butcher shop.
Actually Dee,
This is just another example of why marijuana should be legalized, along with ephedra and any other naturally occurring substance an adult wants to use. In fact, I’d be willing to bet with enough research raw milk has caused more ill health effects that either marijuana or ephedra,
Considering this is a story about the all powerful, intrusive, “nanny” state, it’s ashame these perps weren’t into the really hard stuff. . . like goat’s milk.
@Old Trooper 2: It must be racist OT2. Just ask Tom!
@JustAl: OMG not goat’s milk. I think that goat’s milk is one of the primary caused of global warming.
The cheap product everyone is using today certainly does not have the same taste, as the raw, uncut, high quality white stuff the amish are known for. Those amish are a pretty versatile group of criminals, like the blood or crip gangs in california; the amish have their own style of gang outfits: hats, suspenders and Lincoln beards. They have also traded in their low riders for horse carriages, that don’t have speakers in them, we can only assume that is to not draw attention to themselves as they go on amish joy-rides and “deliverys”. If you see an amish gangster, try not to make eye contact. If he trys to sell you something call 911 immediately.
I drink the raw stuff and its rarely available where I am but I do drink a glass of heavy cream mixed in a blender with a banana and some peanut butter, in the morning. That drink will make you strong enough to wrestle a bear and fast enough to run down a deer.
You need a brown cow to make chocolate milk (hope that’s not racist Tom), but a special and rare type of cow is required to produce goats milk.
I have rarely read a more biased ‘news report’. Talk about trying to incite a riot. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.
Ok then “Notes” let’s hear your version of the story.
Skook, me thinks you omitted the brief epilogue “April Fools” on this one. No?
Great opening. I second Bobachek’s #1 comment. Humorous as hell.
Sad Reality in the age of Obama and Holder judicial determination.
@10RNotes:
Biased? No, I believe it is a great example of creative writing showing how the expansion of federal power under the ‘commerce clause’ has become so very different than what the founding fathers envisioned. You can now stick your head back in the sand, and allow the nanny state to continue to care for you.
In our younger days, my wife and I sold unpasteurized goat’s milk to a woman whose child couldn’t tolerate cow’s milk. We basically raised her child, and it was a responsibility that we took very seriously, as I’m sure the Amish do. Here’s what we had to do each day:
First, we’d wash the goats’ udders with an iodine compound to sterilize them. We’d also sterilize the stainless steel milk bucket with a weak clorox solution before milking. While my wife was doing the milking, I’d be in the kitchen sterilizing some quart canning jars and lids. After they were cool, we’d filter the milk through filter paper into the sterilized jars and immediately immerse them in a container of ice and water to cool them down before storing them in the refrigerator.
It was a lot of work for not much money, but the mother was very appreciative.
@John Cooper: That is the same procedure that cow’s milk goes through before shipping to the pasteurizing plant/homogenizing plant. They also take off the butter fat there. Except now there are pipe lines and bulk tanks to sterilize. I am not sure that pasteurizing substantially changes the health value of milk, but we all should have the opportunity to choose! There are so many other higher priorities that the government should be regulating like illegal campaign contributions from foreign countries!
A list of milk borne diseases.
I can understand the FDA’s position from a public safety standpoint. On the other hand, informed consumers ought to have access to a natural food product and be able to make their own decision regarding potential risks and benefits. I’d probably go with a mandatory product labeling requirement identifying the contents as not being FDA approved and restrict the product to local distribution. That way if people get sick you can quickly map the vector of infection back to the source.
I don’t think such regulatory relaxation should set a general precedent. Setting high product health and safety standards and enforcing related regulation to protect the public is a proper function of the federal government.
The federal goverment’s relationship with the District of Columbia probably represents a unique regulatory situation. I don’t really know enough about that to speculate how it might affect this particular case.
Randy writes: “…we all should have the opportunity to choose!”
Exactly. Socialists Upton Sinclair and Greg notwithstanding, it’s not the proper function of the U.S. government to tell people what they can eat or drink, and it’s not Constitutional.
@Greg:
Not probably, Greg, but DOES.
Article I, Section 8;
That means that they have sole legislative power over DC, however, they still are limited to the powers granted by the Constitution, to the federal government, and not to infringe upon those stated, and unstated, rights, that the people maintain.
I drank raw milk, back when I was a milk drinker and back when I had a litter of crumb pickers and ankle biters to raise and wiener pigs to grow. If you sell it I am sure there is testing and guidelines to follow, but in my case it usually involved roping a range cow that looked like she could have some genetic similarities of milking breeds, putting the milking hobbles on like the ones in the top picture and hoping you lived through the training process. Many times the cow would jump in the bucket on purpose or kick the milk all over the barn wall. I’ve seen real milk cows and it looks like a version of heaven to me, for the guys who use range cows for milk cows, they earn every pint of milk they get. Back in the day, almost every family had a milk cow and cut expenses where possible. These were difficult situations, but of the thousands of milk cows being used in the Peace country, I never heard of a milk borne disease.
Now, tuberculosis is making a comeback after being eradicated for decades. Let’s see, do you think tuberculosis just came from the sky on a starry night or could it be from unregulated immigration? I hate to say you Open Border people deserve drug resistant tuberculosis to strike your family, but those of us who want the border closed and immigration regulated certainly don’t deserve to catch this deadly disease. I am not ashamed to say this and if you want to view bias reporting, turn on the boob tube for the alphabet propaganda in the evening and watch it with a few wide open synapses. You might broaden your horizons and have an epiphany of cognitive intellect. Happy thinking.
@Skookum: From the latest report from Home there are a little over 600 New Calves on the spread that heartily endorse that milk. I have had it and it was worth the endeavor but do not care to milk a range cow daily. It is best reserved for the Calves.
*Heavy Sigh*
Just when I think I can’t possibly get more depressed about the heart wrenching state of
our country, something like this happens. I will be curled up into a ball under my electric
blanket 24/7 if this keeps up.
@Zac: You said:
I prefer Unicorn milk myself, but THAT kind of cow is even more rare than the one that produces goat’s milk…
@Old Trooper 2: Any wolves partaking of the fresh veal?
OT, 600 new calves on the ground, that’s good news. The life cycle continues. It’s for sure those little calves have perfected their own techniques for milking range cows and they are danged good at it. None the less, milking mad range cows is a job for younger men or little barefoot girls. Aye Chihouhua, muchas Apaches! That takes a bolder heart than mine. I think I’d rather run down the Mad Trapper of Rat River than milk barefooted. I know I would.
Good luck on seeing those new white faced calves running and bucking and bawling in the near future. I’ll be working my way North and East starting in a week. I’ve got three hundred horses or so to check out, hope to see you soon.
@anticsrocks: Unicorn milk is where they get Viagra!
It’s Codex Alimentarius. It’s not about nutrition because nutrician doesn’t matter. Nutrients are toxic according to Codex Alimentarius. It’s about Monsanto getting its chemicals into and onto everything we eat. Codex will not allow GM products to be labelled and it a producer labels h/her protuct ‘GM free’, Monsanto sues.
Here’s what Monanto is doing ‘for’ milk:
“Enter Recombinant BGH (rBGH), an unnaturally occurring, genetically engineered hormone produced by Monsanto. As you know, Monsanto has made other fine humanitarian and ecological contributions such as Agent Orange and PCBs.
Through a series of research cover-ups and a network of conflicting interests with government policymakers, and we’ll get to that in Part 3, Monsanto, in 1994, managed to get approval for Posilac, which is Monsanto’s commercial form of rBGH and increases cow’s milk production by 15-25%. According to Monsanto, over a quarter of U.S. milk cows are now herds supplemented with Posilac. The majority of the country’s 1,500 dairy companies mix rBGH milk with non-RBGH milk during processing to such an extent that an estimated 80-90% of the U.S. dairy supply is contaminated.
What Monsanto doesn’t tell consumers is that this supplementation of additional growth hormones is causing secondary sex characteristics to appear earlier in young children, especially girls. Monsanto also doesn’t tell consumers that rBGH injected cows produce extremely high levels of Insulin Growth Factor -1 (IGH-1), a cancer promoter that occurs naturally in the human bloodstream at levels that generally do not result in tumors. Monsanto and the FDA refuse to acknowledge research directly linking elevated levels of IGF-1 to increased risk of breast and prostate cancer. To make matters worse, Monsanto and the FDA colluded in ’93 and ’94 to block labeling requirements for rBGH milk (even today Monsanto and the FDA block labeling of genetically engineered food). So, the average dairy consumer has no idea that they are increasing their own risk of getting cancer.”
http://www.naturalnews.com/027319_milk_dairy_Monsanto.html
Sable, don’t get down in the dumps. We need everyone we can muster to defeat the Obama Myth. That means we all need to put forth more effort campaigning for our favorites to select the best Conservative to not only beat, but demoralize the Progressives and their Socialist agenda. Keep your chin and spirits up. When the going gets tough, the tough get going and we are just getting started.
Just Me 95, those are some interesting facts there. I have been suspicious of why young girls are being robbed of their girlhood and entering puberty at younger ages, ages that would have been considered bizarre a few decades ago. My girls were raised on raw range cow milk along with moose and elk cooked with turnips and potatoes; they have told me, they feel blessed and thankful to have had a normal childhood and puberty. They contribute those experiences to a healthy diet free of hormones and chemicals. I have noticed a preponderance of feminine characteristics among the young urban boys more than ever; it is disturbing and makes a guy wonder what the Hell is going on.
JM 95, please consider an in-depth article concerning hormones in food and the political relationship that encourages it, but be ready to be challenged and to defend your suppositions. It could make for some interesting reading. I have limited editorial responsibilities, but Curt is fairly “Liberal” when articles reflect Conservative philosophy.
Rumor has it; if a guy injects himself with a little of that IGF-1 he will wind up looking like a tyrannosaurus on steroids, not that I’ve ever tried something like that. Rumor also has it that it can cause the facial bones, like the eyebrow, nose, cheek bones to grow, causing a primate type of look, in the men using it. So it literally can make us de-evolve into apes. Can’t say it would not be cool to have the strength and muscle of a gorilla but I also head a girls say various things about guys with muscles that are too big, all of which would deter me from trying to become a genetically engineered gorilla.
@ Randy, There is My personal bounty on wolves which is $50.00 extra in the pay envelope. I buy the ammunition, the Winchester 30-30 lever guns and the Hands bring in the pelts. I have not lost a Calf to El Lobo & Company for the past 15 years. My Daughter shot one at age 15 and the pelt adorns her bedroom wall at the house. It hangs above her signed photo of Chuck Yeager.
El Lobo is in the neighborhood but if HE/SHE presents themselves it is Open Season and $50.00 cash in a Cowpoke’s pocket. I don’t care who says what about that arrangement. It is in Force and works. So any wolf lovers can buy a pelt for $50.00 from my Top Hand. Ammunition is not cheap these days.
@ sablegsd, there is a Latin phrase that applies here:
@John Cooper, #24:
I agree. On the other hand, I expect the federal government to have something to say about what people can sell. When the health or safety of an unsuspecting American public is threatened by the sale of tainted food, dangerously flawed products, bad drugs, etc, I want the federal government to do something about it, and I expect a pro-active, preventive approach. I don’t trust private concerns to unfailingly self-monitor to a sufficient degree. There’s a built-in conflict of interest.
Hey Antics! Go try some coconut milk and see if you can figure out which breed of cattle spits that one out. Can’t say I’m into the unicorn milk, I have also never tried pole vaulting.
When I heard about this one incident, I laughed so hard I fell back in my chair, kicked both boots off in separate directions and swallowed my Red Man. Its hard to believe this is not one of those late April fools jokes. Actually its not funny at all.
Let’s see, the government tells a Steak House that it can no longer serve its 12 ounce Porter house, because that is too much red meat as determined by Mrs Obama; from now on, they must sell 4 ounce portions or risk being fined. Maybe a 90 pound woman who is suffering from some self induced diet disorder will find the four ounce cut more than enough, but there are some big men out there who work really hard and they build up an appetite and want to enjoy a nice steak of epic proportions. Unfortunately, Michelle has put her clodhopper down and the big hungry man must now be content with his four ounce Porter House and a smidgen of whipped potatoes with a microscopic dab of butter and sour cream. It is for his health and we must respect the wishes of our First Lady. So instead of returning to The Steak House, the Big Hungry man buys a grill and invites all his hungry friends over and they all have 16 ounce Porterhouses with two baked potatoes and all the butter and sour cream they want and they wash it all down with a couple of beers and a shot of rye when they are done. Most of these men, if they are active live well into their old age, the steak house goes broke, because they were in profit mode and the profits dried up because of government interference. The hungry men decide to go to a rancher and buy a beef on the hoof and butcher it themselves. They meet once a week for four months and enjoy life. Mrs Obama brags to her friends how she has singlehandedly slowed the consumption of red meat while they dine on 14 ounce Wagu Beef Steaks from Japan. Yes we all need more government intrusion into our lives.
@Zac: Hmmm, coconuts are kinda wooly, so maybe bison??
@Greg:
That is very, very backwards thinking, Greg. Private concerns would be MORE concerned with self-monitoring simply because they want to make a profit, and the bad press from contaminated product would not allow them to do so. A long, drawn out discussion could certainly be had on this, but to state it simply; You want the nanny state to protect you, from cradle to grave, no matter what the effects on any sort of personal liberty. Whatever you want, that’s fine by me, but in your rush to approve of this nanny state, you didn’t notice all the other people who had their rights and freedoms infringed upon. Thanks.
Cass Sunstein says that animals should have rights. Holder’s DOJ wants to mirandize anything that moves, so here goes:
Mrs dairy cow? You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say or do can and will be held against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you. Do you understand these rights as they been read to you?
When you hear Clip clop. clip clop, BANG, clip clop, clip clop, that my friends, is an Amish drive by shooting.
@Old Trooper 2: I understand. When I was a kid and a freshening cow got milk fever and died, I didn’t realize that was $500 lost. At that time, my dad had a gross farm income of about $10000. Do you have enough pelts for a nice bed spread?
@oil guy from Alberta: Rights for animals?
I hope this does not become a MOOt point…
😛
We are really “milking” this one for all its worth. Some one should tell holder to quit having a “cow”.
The pictures up top remind me of that Amish Paradise video from Al Yankovic.
@Randy: Hah! I have enough pelts to carpet the living room. Each Calf counts as You know. We deal with the normal predators there. If the Feds send two legged ones to monitor Cattle Flatulence or some such nonsense there will be War Declared. I meet every Agencies requirements
and am in compliance otherwise. I sell cattle on the hoof not butcher shop meat so it is not difficult but as Gummint by Agency and not Common Sense seems to be the trend I am just waiting for more meddling from the EPA or some other band of amateurs to regulate something foolish.
Randy, the wolf doesn’t really have the kind of fur for a bedspread; however, if you had a hide sewn over a rough out jacket with a few Metis design beads here and there with the head and front paws hanging down the back and the hind legs and tail split and hanging down the front, you would get a lot of attention in Colorado. I’ve always wanted a jacket like that, but the Metis women who sew them charge a pretty good price for their work. Oh well, I always needed to sell furs and the ones I wanted to keep brought the most money. A wolf hide also makes an excellent rug in the spot where your feet hit the floor on cold winter’s morning. That’s living in high style. A good winter pelt will cost a lot more than $50 I’d say because of the tanning costs and the value of a winter fur. On the open market I’d guess a premium fur at $750. It’s hard to get a premium fur if you are hunting, but that is why they call it hunting.
For those who worry about the wolf, they maintain their own numbers and expand as long as there is territory and game to sustain them. I have wondered many times if they are the true Communists of the world. They eat like the Elites, that’s for sure.