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Amish Raw Milk Smugglers
The Food and Drug Administration says that “raw milk is inherently dangerous and it should not be consumed by anyone at any time for any purpose,” and it is illegal to purchase for human consumption in most states. But that doesn’t stop raw-milk aficionados from drinking it. Enter the Amish raw-milk smugglers:
Wearing a black-brimmed country hat, suspenders and an Amish beard, “Samuel” unloaded his contraband from an unmarked white truck on a busy block in Manhattan. He was at the tail end of a long smuggling run that had begun before dawn at his Pennsylvania farm.
As he wearily stacked brown cardboard boxes on the sidewalk, a few upscale clients in the Chelsea neighborhood lurked nearby, eyeing the new shipment hungrily.
Clearly, they couldn’t wait to get a taste.
But he wasn’t selling them anything they planned to smoke, snort or inject. Rather, he was giving them their once-a-month fix of raw milk — an unpasteurized product banned outright in 12 states and denounced by the FDA as a public health hazard, but beloved by a small but growing number of devotees who tout both its health benefits and its flavor.
Samuel is part of a shadowy community of outlaw Amish and Mennonite dairy farmers who risk fines, loss of equipment and product, and even imprisonment to transport raw milk across state lines and satisfy a burgeoning appetite for illegal raw milk in places like New York.In January, The Daily rode along on one of these smuggling runs.
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Dane Carlson on February 4th, 2011 9:56 am
What about people with cows? Should they really not drink milk from their own cow? That makes no sense. People have been drinking milk straight from the cow since cows were domesticated thousands of years ago.
Dane Carlson on February 4th, 2011 9:57 am
By straight from the cow I mean: from the cow, into a bucket, then into a bottle, then into a glass. :)
Angela Shupe on February 4th, 2011 11:20 am
I’ve heard both sides of the argument. One side argues that it’s dangerous to drink, and the other side says it has more nutrients because it hasn’t gone through the pasteurization process. When my mom was a kid she drank milk straight from the cow. Strangely enough, she survived.
You forgot to skim the cream off in your step-by-step. ;-) I hope it’s not illegal to drink milk from your own cow! That would be ridiculous. I’ll take it one step further, farmers should be allowed to sell it. I understand the potential for disease is there (as the other side will argue), but it is a buyer beware type of situation. Substances that are much more dangerous are sold legally, so why not let people drink raw milk?
Dane Carlson on February 4th, 2011 5:49 pm
Who skims off the cream!? That’s the best part!
kim on February 4th, 2011 8:05 pm
I read that thinking of all the mornings I got up with mum to milk our old jersey cow Daisy…..are they serious…..I am fed up with ridiculous laws that, god knows who, come up with. When is some simplicity going to re enter society and allow people to make up their own minds on things as simple as drinking unpasteurized etc etc cows milk…arrrrrggh!
Nakale Ayovunefe on February 5th, 2011 8:49 am
A debate erupted in my Food Science class because of the raw milk topic. Personally, I would love to try it.
Rhona Proxenos on February 6th, 2011 2:44 am
Just another democracy fail. When did governments loose the plot?
j.mac on February 6th, 2011 1:46 pm
This is a sure fire way to spread Brucellosis to man, where it is known as Undulant fever. There is presently Brucellosis in wildlife, that acts as a resevoir to re infect cattle herds. Unpasturized milk , from a Brucellosis positive cow, will give hunams, Brucellosis.
Susan Smith on February 6th, 2011 2:28 pm
I was brought up on a farm. Was given raw milk.
Now they have that shit in the stores they call milk. I don’t drink it that is why I have a calcium problem. If I were able to buy milk from a farm down the road a piece I would. There is nothing wrong with raw milk. It is so good.
I am sick of the Government getting their nose in my LIFE. I will do as I wish…
steve meller on February 7th, 2011 12:08 pm
Okay I am done for now.
Thank You,
Peace,
Steve
steve meller on February 7th, 2011 12:42 pm
In the rare cases where people get sick from eating/drinking raw dairy you will usually find those individuals, had a compromised immune system or were generally unhealthy.
Just like vaccines and all of the other hot topics, what you eat/drink/inject should be your own personal choice.
We are given a choice as to whether or not we smoke cigarettes, eat fast foods, drink alcohol or high fructose corn syrup drinks, buy/eat processed foods, watch toxic television, etc., but non of these things are outlawed!
Why is the FDA so concerned with a little milk but gives the okay for you to buy/consume GMO or GE Salmon,Corn,Cotton,Soy,Canola, Alfafa and other food stuff and in most cases does not even require the manufacturer to label their products as such.
I find it a little hard to make healthy food choices when the FDA does not require truthful labeling, what are they trying to hide? So much for choice!
We are all grown up now and we do not need the Government making decisions for us as to what we put into our bodies.
The bigger picture to me looks more like profit and control from our government and their bosses: Big Dairy, Big Pharma, Monsanto and the Gangster Banksters.
Follow the money !!! Make your own informed choices and tell your government to BACK OFF !!
Peace,
Steve
kim on February 7th, 2011 10:28 pm
To Steve Meller……Amen !
kim on February 7th, 2011 10:34 pm
Cartman on Southpark may be a little twat…..but hey….HE DOES WHAT HE WANTS WHEN HE WANTS…… Amen to that too !
I haven’t watched that show, let alone tv for months, but probably one of the best sayings I have picked up from the evil thing…
Randy Wright on February 8th, 2011 12:38 pm
This story really smacks of the good ol’ USA becoming a police state.
Prohibition restricts supply, which increases prices. The dairy farmers I know in Pennsylvania are almost all bankrupt or close to it. They claim there is a government price control system in efect that is killing them. The price of a half gallon of raw milk in a Pennsylvania store is roughly twice that of conventional milk.
The raw milk in my local health food store is also from grass fed cows and is from Jersey cattle. Both of those characteristics add value to the milk. If I live in Manhattan, where the story originates, I could go to a New York state farmer and buy this raw milk legally. I can also drive to PA or Connecticuit and buy my raw milk in a store and ‘smuggle’ it home.
kim on February 9th, 2011 1:29 am
you know what…..i reckon the government…whether in Aus or USA or anywhere else in this god forsaken world…… are just passing in stupid laws like this to divert us from the illegal shit they are up too…… they do it in our faces every day and we keep getting sucked in….. they however are just sitting back laughing & patting their fat money filled bloody bellies…. i am sick of it…. when will ……………so many things i want to write here……………
when will there be just peace…..not a group telling you what you can’t drink…. for f*** sake…..
kim on February 9th, 2011 1:32 am
queensland in australia is becoming known as the “NANNY STATE”. how god damn embarrassing……the government is laughing all the way to their fat repulsive bank accounts…………..
Mistie B. on March 4th, 2011 5:16 am
I grew up in the 80′s as the oldest of 5 kids. My dad only made $7.30/hr, so obviously there wasn’t a whole lot of money coming in. We lived out in the country in west central ohio, and we always had animals. We had chickens that we butchered, we ate eggs from free range hens, and we also milked goats…by hand…and drank the milk RAW! I can remember going down to the barn as a young girl and getting the milk pan, opening the gate and the goats would jump right up on the stanchion, ready to give that good, healthy, warm milk. We had an Alpine goat who gave us close to a gallon of milk a day! We’d take the stainless steel milk pan up to the house, and my mom would strain the milk right into a mason jar, date the lid, and into the fridge it went! We made homemade goats milk ice cream too, and boy is it GOOOOOOD!!! Im healthy, and actually thinking of getting a couple goats for milking this spring. I have bought raw cows milk from the amish several times in the past few years, and have even made homemade baby formula from raw cows milk….the government has enough to worry about…they need to keep their nose in their own business and stop keeping us under their thumb. Its time for Americans to fight for their rights and stop cowering to the evil leaders of this country who have no business telling us what were “allowed” to eat or drink. I believe a REVOLUTION is brewing!! God bless AMERICA!!!!!!!! And cling to those guns, smoke those cigarettes, and drink that raw milk if thats what you want to do!!!!
Mark on May 18th, 2011 4:44 pm
I grew up on a dairy farm. Back in the “good ole days” we would milk the cows, then pour the raw milk through a filter, and into a cooled bulk tank. When dinner time rolled around, mom would send me down to the barn with a couple gallon jugs, and i would scoop the milk out of the tank with a ladel. Never did any of us get sick because we drank raw milk. Never. What is happening here is that big agribusiness and dairies, are so scared of a raw milk rebirth, they are pulling out all the stops to demonize small operators. They want a monopoly on this, and will not stand for small dairies cutting into their profits. The people who run big ag, and support it, are in my opinion, nothing short of a pack of criminals. They are they people who feed us junk, and poison our food. The Amish farmer should be held in high esteem for doing it the right way.
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