Ernie wrote: ↑Mon Aug 22, 2022 9:30 pm
Anybody in the US, (citizen or not) is allowed to buy an animal, and have it butchered wherever he/she chooses in whatever manner he/she chooses, correct?
The job of civil government is to restrain evil, and selling someone a product that is potentially deadly, is evil, IMO.
Now I suppose a person could sign a waiver saying they take whatever risk comes with buying from the Amish farmer, but the gov't probably doesn't allow that option.
Ernie,
We sign a waiver for the government (and to protect the sellers) when we buy raw milk that the milk will only be used for animal consumption.
So, according to the "theory of evolution" that our government teaches in our public schools... - we are all animals anyway. So, OK it will only be given to "what the government calls animals" then.
They pasteurize milk so that it will keep for weeks on the store shelf, but the heating process kills a lot of the good enzymes and other things that make milk healthy. Homogenizing the milk is another nightmare. Just because pasteurized milk does not smell bad does not mean it is good. No milk should be kept for more than a few days. And milk at the store is older than that.
The cost of pasteurization and homogenization knock out any independent milk producer selling milk to a local market. Milk is "big business" and does not want local competition, so these laws have been put in place by the milk lobby to eliminate small competition. They enforce these laws to consolidate all food production in the hands of a few. Ted Turner and Bill Gates, plus the Chinese, are buying up as much farmland as possible - does it make sense now? Yes, there is a war on the small farmers by the rich.
I won't argue with someone that has never had raw milk. If the milk is bad, don't drink it. I rarely drink storebought milk, as I don't trust it.
We raised milk goats for a while, and goat milk is perfect for someone that is lactose intolerant. It makes great ice cream, but it is already homogenized, so you can't make butter from goat milk.
The last listeria outbreak was in 2011, and came from cantaloupes, not milk. I guess they need to pasteurize cantaloupes too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Unit ... s_outbreak
These cantaloupes came from a big box store producer. It is the big producers that spread diseases that make people sick, and it is the small producers that get busted, without any diseases or complaints from their customers.
For meat, we raise meat sheep, and either process it ourselves, or take it to a local processor. I also shoot deer and eat that myself, with no help from the government.
In Tennessee, you are able to sell any farm product off your own farm as a private treaty. Only if you sell your meat in a store, or through a 3rd party like a processor, is the FDA involved.
FDA - Food and Drug Administration -are the ones responsible for OxyContin, Thalidomide, Covid shots that are creating blood clots, - do you trust them? Who is really paying their bills and and pulling their chains? If it makes money for Big Business, then it is approved by the FDA.
By the way, Mitch McConnell is a tool of Big Pharma, as that is the support base that funds his re-elections. Mitch is the one that put the judge in place that put the Amish farmer selling chickweed salve in prison - as his salve was removing skin cancers. No customer complained, only the government. That is how it works. Always remember that Christ said the government was run by Satan. Luke 4:5-8.
If the Amish had never sold to the English, there would not have been a problem. The solution is to set up a Christian Community, and sell only to believers. It can be a CSA, but you have to exclude these heathen troublemakers.
Maybe this is God's plan, that these non-believers will have to eat GMO food, take COVID shots, and be generally sick, while His elect have other options.