The Unseen War on American Farms

Guns drawn, a SWAT team kicks in the door of a private business. Are the cops there for drug dealers? Mafia mobsters? Terrorists?

No, the long arm of the law is out for the real dangerous contraband: raw milk and grass-fed chickens.

Nick Gillespie sits down with Kristin Canty, director of Farmageddon: The Unseen War on American Farms, a new documentary about small farms and co-ops that have been raided by the Food & Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and state-level agencies and have had their products seized and destroyed. One particularly gruesome case involved a flock of sheep being killed because of the non-existent threat of the sheep acquiring Mad Cow Disease.

Farmageddon does more than document government overreach; the movie also takes issue with FDA claims that raw milk and other products popular with foodies are unsafe and filled with dangerous bacteria. In a country where more and more folks are embracing small-scale and organic agriculture, the government is on a collision course with a growing subculture.

Canty says this is only film she intends to make. She aspires to open a farm-to-table restaurant in Massachusetts, a venture that will be made all the more difficult by onerous and misguided regulations.

Shot by Meredith Bragg and Josh Swain. Edited by Anthony L. Fisher.

Approximately 5.28 minutes.

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Tags:

• Farms
• organic
• farmer's market
• usda
• fda
• swat
• raw milk
• grass-fed
• foodie
• mad cow disease

[MRBLACKPEARL04]

The gov want to get us sick w cancer and sick with genetically modified foods. Sick = money for them. Raw organic = not sick = no profit. Spread the word.

[ewetoobblowsbigtime]

Sheep don't get mad cow. But they do get mad sheep. Mad cow came from sheep that were feed diseased sheep brains. It is a prion disease that jumps species.

I fully support organic farming. I think we need to seize land form the mega farms and have land grants to citizens. Give away free land and make it tax free if they homestead it.

Seizing raw milk and organic farm's products is government mafia racketeering. Local police need to go arrest state FDA officials and hold G.J. Trials.

[verysmartmart]

FUCKING BOLLOCKS: IF CRUELTY AGAINST MAMMALS/VERTEBRATES IS OK THEN LETS BRING BACK GLADIATORIAL GAMES...(It would be much more entertaining).:D xxxxx

[bbukid]

That old "BIG BROTHER is Watching" has finally caught up in this 21st Century.

[bbukid]

Federal Govt: "DON'T EAT fresh organic food. Eat GE(Genetically Engineered) Foods and McDonalds, Wendy's, etc."

[FloridianAsshole22]

Well intentioned laws? lol there is no well intention when the gov starts to pry into your personal life or how you live it

[doobersmanster]

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (H.R. 2751) is a federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on January 4, 2011. This is your New hope and change for you..more inspectipons, more regulation..on and on..next it will be people getting shot for growing and raising thier own food.

[doobersmanster]

@efherne RIGHT ON...Down with Cronism and Facism.  Freedom or Death!!!!!

[doobersmanster]

I agree with here 100%..this is nothing but the Liberals trying to control everything and are in Bed with the Food industry. This is all caused from Progressive politics. We should destroy all Democratic political organizations. The Demoncrats are the Reason for the FDA in the first place. HEY BUYER BE WARE!!! Be responsible for what you put in your mouth, THE GOvernment is not supposed to be our NANNY. Screw all Psudo forms Government..The agencies. They are UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!

[efherne]

The USGov has made bitter almonds, cannibus and leatrile illegal (ALL CANCER CURES)--then if they make it illegal to GROW anything without their permission...they then will control not only ALL the CURES FOR CANCER, but they will regulate all the seeds and farms ~ MONSANTO GROWN ONLY ~

US GOVERNMENT WILL....not only control the amount of cancer causing agents going into us, but also the cancer causing cures we can access!

Farmaggddon?

It should be BIG GOV/PHARMAGGEDON!

[goodtimesrock]

Great start to knocked down the war on food brought to you by the very king pins that control every aspect of our life, not to mention overseas.