#Raw Milk Lawsuits

The public is outraged at the two armed raids on an organic coop in California, even before knowing that California is also giving cease and desist orders to goat farmers, and having little idea that the FDA-approved pasteurized is contaminated with Crohn's bacterium.

The FDA has also moved to stop the interstate transport of raw milk. Live over the border from a state with raw milk and have none available in your state, and the FDA wants to prevent you from bringing that milk home, though it is legal to buy in one state and legal to drink it in your own. Just not legal to get it there.

The Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund has taken the raw milk transport case and the goat farmers' case, which sound great, only the arguments they are making sound wrong even to non-lawyers.

If the FTCLDF has no chance to win with its current arguments, what of the obscene precedents it would leave in its wake - the removal of the human rights around food, around contracting and around everyone's health.

FDA has already announced their decision previously:

"There is no absolute right to consume or feed children any particular food."

"There is no 'deeply rooted' historical tradition of unfettered access to foods of all kinds."

"Plaintiffs' assertion of a 'fundamental right to their own bodily and physical health, which includes what foods they do and do not choose to consume for themselves and their families' is similarly unavailing because plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish."

FDA's brief goes on to state that "even if such a right did exist, it would not render FDA's regulations unconstitutional because prohibiting the interstate sale and distribution of unpasteurized milk promotes bodily and physical health."

"There is no fundamental right to freedom of contract."

NOTE: I agree that going to court for a declaration to reaffirm rights from the very tyrannical regime that is breaking a sweat to REMOVE those rights is rather counter productive.

Non compliance, and voting with our dollars to reject all false foods.

Why we drink Raw Goat Milk daily.