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Please make a quick phone call if you’re in Vermont.

Vt. Agency of Agriculture actions overstepped authority

Rural Vermont is a nonprofit organization which sponsors milk processing classes, usually on small farms that sell raw milk. Many believe that fresh unpasteurized milk is healthier than conventional store-bought milk. In addition, buying milk from local farmers promotes healthy community. Rural Vermont’s purpose was to educate people about how to safely make their own yogurt, butter, cheese, etc. at home from milk purchased from a local farm.

On Feb. 10, Dan Scruton, chief of the Dairy Division, Vermont Agency of Agriculture issued a cease and desist order to Rural Vermont, telling them to cancel their classes on the grounds that it is illegal to consume raw milk in anything but a liquid state. As a result of their interpretation, it is now illegal for farmers to knowingly sell their milk to people who might make yogurt, butter, or cheese in their own home. By extension, it is now illegal for you to make milk products for your family.

Regardless of your views on the subject of raw milk, this is an infringement on your right to produce your own food in your own home. Even if this invasive regulation does not affect you directly, it sets a precedent for the restriction of your personal freedoms.

If the motives of the Department of Agriculture are truly to protect you as a consumer from potentially harmful products, shouldn’t their business be with proven dangers such as cigarettes, energy drinks or alcohol? It is a misdirection of their power to forbid citizens the right to make their own food in their own home.

If you are concerned about your freedom to make personal decisions within your own home, I urge you to contact Gov. Shumlin at (802) 828-3333. Ask him to stop the Agency of Agriculture from interfering with Rural Vermont, and your right to make your own informed food decisions.

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Feel free to use the art and spread the flower power. This isn’t hippies. This isn’t yippies. This is basic human rights. People need food. Those who control the food will control the people. Fight back while you still have the rights. Stop S.510 and its companion House bill.

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“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
-George Washington

In the news:

A Cumberland, Wis., man pleaded no contest and was found guilty Tuesday of violating Wisconsin’s premises registration law, after being granted a new trial in Polk County Circuit Court. Patrick Monchilovich, 39, declined the court’s offer to allow him to register his premises rather than pay a $390 penalty, and reserved his right to appeal.
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“The vast majority of Wisconsin’s livestock producers have registered their premises; about 60,000 to date,” Wisconsin State Veterinarian Robert Ehlenfeldt says. “We have a minority who have not registered, whether for religious reasons, anti-government sentiment, or whatever other reason.
-Dairy Network

Gee… He equates religious freedom and anti-government sentiment “or whatever”. Is he trying to call us terrorists? Notice the manipulation of language. Standard fascist behavior. From there our Learless Feeder Herr Ehlenfeldt goes on to say:

“But this law came about because our animal agriculture producers asked for it.”
-Dairy Network

HUH!?! No, we did not ask for it. It is being forced upon us. Comments in the Federal Registry about the USDA’s proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS) run overwhelmingly against the program. Speakers at the listening sessions across the nation were almost unanimously against NAIS. Farmers and consumers in national independent polls are 92% against NAIS. We did not ask for it. We keep saying No! but they keep forcing it on us. What is wrong with Wisconsion’s government, Department of Agriculture and their state vet? Deaf as dung?

What part of the word “No!” do they not understand? NAIS is not about protection animal health. It is not about protecting our food quality. It is not about food safety. The USDA has stated this in writing. NAIS is not about the American consumer nor is it for small farmers. NAIS is about protecting the profits of Big Ag and they get to be excused from the tagging and tracking. It is a marketing scheme paid for by the American Tax Payer for the benefit of Big Corporations. As small farmers, we already know where our livestock are. It is Big Ag who can’t keep track of their asses.

The time has come to to stop the rape of American farmers by Government Agricultural Regulatory Bureaucrats And Global Exploiters (GARBAGE).

No means No.
Not Now.
Not Ever.
NoNAIS.