Athens, GA Raw Milk Seizure, Part One

On October 15, 2009, agents for the Georgia State Department of Agriculture searched our truck without a warrant and seized 110 gallons of raw milk purchased by a number of individuals at a USDA Grade A fully licensed raw milk dairy in South Carolina.

The agents were not able to haul the milk away themselves, so they left it impounded on the truck. Four days later, they returned along with a federal agent from the Food & Drug Administration to force those individuals to destroy the milk they had purchased.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• rawmilk
• agriculture
• liberty

[flatpicker1234]

our government will let individuals purchase cigaretttes, medical marijauna, alcohol but not milk. That's how you can tell that government is too big!!

[DavidKretzmann]

Ron Paul 2012! Let people be free! 

[organikness]

@entyrion you really dont know many people that support organic food do you. And your typical anology of organic minded people as 'fringe activists' is humourous.

But your rhetoric funnily enough does touch on truths. Of course there will be people that are 'anti-business' (within the paradigm of how it is viewed today) within the organbic sector. Like is attracted to like in this infinitely dynamic universe.

[entyrion]

@LICKETYSPLITALNG

Alright, good for you. Whatever.. you're starting to go off the deep end and I'm frankly not that interested in continuing our discussion. Whether your conspiracy theories are actually based on a grain of truth or not, I don't really care. I'm perfectly happy with the food I buy, and I believe you should have the freedom to purchase whatever the hell kind of food you want. I personally don't want raw milk, but I think the feds shouldn't be telling YOU what to drink either.

[entyrion]

The reason is quite simple. Mass market consumers were not interested in organic milk or other foods. It is more expensive per unit, and nobody wanted it, except for a handful of fringe activists. Once this topic came to the public spotlight, lots of people changed their minds and became interested in organic food. Once there was a market of people who actually wanted the product, all the huge evil corporations were more than happy to stock organic milk and other foods.

[entyrion]

For years, pro-organic types would cite these exact reasons for organic foods being absent from the shelves. Today however, you can find organic milk (and tons of other organic foods) in WAL-MART, the "evilest" of the "evil corporations" that anti-business people love to hate, and every single other major mass-market grocery store around the nation. Organic food can't be patented, so why is this? Why were these foods REALLY not on shelves? Some corporate conspiracy? No.

[entyrion]

@LICKETYSPLITALNG

You're welcome for the ideological support, but I do have to take issue with your anti-corporate stance in your raw milk comment. I find that the people who support organic foods also tend to be anti-business, but this usually stems from a simple lack of understanding about how businesses and markets work. Look at plain ol' organic milk for example. For years, people used to whine that the "evil corporations" were intentionally keeping them from the market.

[entyrion]

@LICKETYSPLITALNG

An interesting article, though I didn't see any links to clinical studies or scientific journals when I skimmed it. Let me be clear, bringing this back to the video and the issue at hand, I am actually much more of an ally to people like you, Yunta51, LenaLena7, etc. than you might realize. Like I said a long time ago in my original comments, I am an opponent of the gov't telling you what to or not to drink; you should be free to drink your raw milk, I'm simply not interested.

[jumpdivesplash]

Why did these people even comply with the illegal order? Not only was there no warrant, but there was nobody there to even enforce it other than that one woman, correct? I would have taken my milk and left, regardless of what they told me to do. People, stop being wimps to tyranny. Stand up and defy this infringement of your God-given rights.

[kebozarth]

Why did they not decline to pour out the milk and make the federal, state, etc. agents/ officers/employees do it?