From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.
-Joel Salatin
President Trump has promised to reduce government regulations…for businesses.
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The U.S. is going to substantialy reduce taxes and regulations on businesses…
mrs_horseman isn’t a business, but she does do a great job of keeping our household stocked with fresh yogurt made with raw milk from our family cow.
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It is really nice to know exactly what is in the food we eat, and fresh is oh-so much more delicious.
Too bad you cannot have any. Not unless you can afford to farm strictly as a hobby for your own consumption.
Big corporate food and ag interests have made it a crime for Americans to freely sell our raw milk, yogurt, and cheese to our friends and neighbors. Their products must have a long shelf life, and so they simply cannot compete with fresh. Therefore these big businesses pay our “elected representatives” to pass state and federal regulations, for your protection, but really to protect their corporate donors’ businesses.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-06/hedgelesshorsemans-revolutionar…
14. Read, Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
15. Research your two senators and one congressman at https://www.opensecrets.org/ Make a list of their 10 biggest donors, and send the list to your “representative” in an email or letter.
Nobody explains the insanity of all this better than Joel Salatin…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-16/hedgelesshorsemans-nearly-annua…
2) Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front, by Joel Salatin. $11
mrs_horseman and I love this guy. If you haven’t seen Joel in the excellent movie, Food, Inc., then do watch it.
I wouldn’t bet on a Big Government Statist like President Trump to substantially reduce these regulations on American citizens, which benefit businesses.
Statists want government to have a great deal of power over the economy and individual behavior. They frequently doubt whether economic liberty and individual freedom are practical options in today’s world. Statists tend to distrust the free market, support high taxes and centralized planning of the economy, oppose diverse lifestyles, and question the importance of civil liberties.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-24/what-world-donald-trump
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Of course a big government statist like Trump isn’t going to change anything about this. He probably has real work to do with his time, and probably thinks people who focus on the trivial are enemies of the state. Grow up, dude. We’ve got work to do.
Let me get this right. A person can go to the store and pick up a carton of Marlboro’s, then to the liquor store and pick up a gallon of cheap vodka, but is not allowed to go to the farm and buy a gallon of healthful grass-fed raw milk? This is not trivial. It is part of the pattern of government/corporate tyranny to control every aspect of our lives. The fact that the government tells us what we can and cannot nourish our own bodies with is trivial? What we eat and drink and breath is a basic as it gets. We who fight for the right to decide these basic human needs (including those like HSF and Joel Salatin who are on the front line) are enemies of the state? No, dude, you need to grow up.
Where did he get the idea that Trump is a statist?
I have been watching this from Indiana. Michigan had several instances where they broke hundreds of eggs on the ground poured out many gallons of milk, and destroyed another product. In another instance they killed their meat hogs because they didn’t recognize that breed. Another Amish people’s were being hauled in to court with exorbitant fees for vegetables and produce I think. Self sufficiency is now a sin in some states. It is called regulating any small business out of business. Some cities went after children with lemonade stands. Tax money you know!! Even children can’t cheat the tax man. It started years ago here when a guy processes deer.
What is a amazing is the child income tax bracket allows a child to earn up to $3,000 annually with no tax. I doubt a lemonade stand earns that. Worst case they would owe state sales taxes, need a business license, insurance etc. seems somewhat reasonable to allow kids to really understand the govt overreach and regulations at an early age so they understand current capitalism and maybe one day fix it. Coddling these kids and blaming the govt only empowers them to revolt and not fix the problem when they become college bound snowflakes. Let them do it right and see the upfront costs to go into business and the hard work it takes just to breakeven after oppressive regulations and tax laws….piss these kids off real good and watch the change happen when they hit college, it will be the change you are really looking for unlike the change that kenyan promised…..
It is NOT a crime to sell your milk to your neighbor. Never has been. Never will be. It IS, however, ILLEGAL to sell your milk to your neighbor, without getting permission from the state. But since when did “the law” have anything to do with what’s right? The state is a giant, organized, criminal, extortion and counterfeiting racket. Nothing more.
http://www.realrawmilkfacts.com/raw-milk-regulations
Here in Florida you have to say that the raw milk is for pets,not people.
We fixed it in Wyoming, took 6 years and a lot of screaming. http://wyomingfoodfreedom.com/
Idaho has something called the Small Herd Exemption. It just requires that your milk animals are checked once a year by a vet.
The GOP assholes in the Virginia state government are pushing for a regulation on herd share farms that will require labeling just as if the raw milk was being offered for sale to the general public in stores, which is strictly prohibited in Virginia.
The labeling would require standardization of milkfat content and analysis of nutritional values that could be tested by state officials periodically. It will effectively end herd share dairy farming, which is the result desired by these shitasses.
Whenever I travel up through the Cooperstown, NY region, I love buying some raw milk from a local farmer. The only requirement is that you give them your name and phone number so they can call you if they find an issue in their daily pathogen testing. Seems to be a reasonable tradeoff. You can buy raw milk in a store in PA.
Just a simply educated thought. If me and 9 other people are involved. I have the farm and animals. The other 9 buy in for a nominal fee (think shareholder) they too now own the animal therefore are rightful owners of any dividend. A paid in kind dividend can be paid via the product that its business produces. Many corporation during the great depression paid an “in kind dividend and not a cash dividend”. Therefore to circumvent these nazi fascist laws every shareholder can receive their milk or cheese or butter as a dividend. The excess can be sold or stored as non paid dividends to be held in safeguard for future dividends as needed. Stored dividends allow a company to pay that in the future in case production is meager but want to always pay a dividend. Understand public corporation laws, shareholders, stocks, dividends, and the solution for this is quickly fixed. The company has no “profits” and is in the business of providing a return to its shareholders even if that return is in the form of a dividend paid in kind. If i own a pencil manufacturing business and go public. I can produce enough pencils to provide a dividend to my shareholders. That dividend will be paid in the form of say 6 pencils a quarter. No excess produced, therefore no sales, therefore no profits, therefore no taxes. However one issue is most shareholders do not have to pay annually to keep a company running so it is best to make partnership so each owner pays into the company enough prorata so they get back out what they put in “in kind”. They are owners so there is no “sale ” that took place therefore no sales tax nor income taxes. Every year these owners put money in (pre pay for cost of production) and this allows full circumvention of fascist laws protecting monopolies that contribute political money.