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LOCAL FARMERS BUCKING FOOD SAFETY RULES
JANE BLACK, WASHINGTON POST - Eat-local proponents, or locavores, say
foods grown by nearby, small farms are fresher and better for the
environment and local communities than government-certified organic
foods, which can come from as far away as New Zealand. Bean is one of a
number of small farmers whose stand against state and federal
regulations has landed him in legal trouble.
This month, a county sheriff served Michigan cattle farmer Greg
Niewendorp with a warrant before he would allow state agriculture
officials to test his herd as part of a program to eradicate
tuberculosis. In Pennsylvania, dairy farmer Mark Nolt refused to obtain
a permit to sell unpasteurized milk, prompting officials to raid his
farm and confiscate raw milk, cheese and yogurt as well as equipment and
sales records.
And in Charlottesville, John Coles and Christine Solem of Satyrfield
Farms have dodged state regulations for nearly three years by giving
away their raw-milk goat cheese, which is illegal to sell in Virginia.
They have been soliciting donations for, a sign in front of their market
stand says, "legislative and court efforts to allow the sales of raw
milk, cheese and other farm products."
. . . The growing defiance from small farmers illustrates their
increasing frustration with rules that they say penalize them and favor
industrial producers, who were the source of headline-grabbing disease
outbreaks such as the E.coli-infected spinach that killed three people
last year and last month's recall of 21.7 million pounds of
E.coli-infected ground beef.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/
AR2007101902757.html
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LOCAL FARMERS BUCKING FOOD SAFETY RULES
JANE BLACK, WASHINGTON POST - Eat-local proponents, or locavores, say
foods grown by nearby, small farms are fresher and better for the
environment and local communities than government-certified organic
foods, which can come from as far away as New Zealand. Bean is one of a
number of small farmers whose stand against state and federal
regulations has landed him in legal trouble.
This month, a county sheriff served Michigan cattle farmer Greg
Niewendorp with a warrant before he would allow state agriculture
officials to test his herd as part of a program to eradicate
tuberculosis. In Pennsylvania, dairy farmer Mark Nolt refused to obtain
a permit to sell unpasteurized milk, prompting officials to raid his
farm and confiscate raw milk, cheese and yogurt as well as equipment and
sales records.
And in Charlottesville, John Coles and Christine Solem of Satyrfield
Farms have dodged state regulations for nearly three years by giving
away their raw-milk goat cheese, which is illegal to sell in Virginia.
They have been soliciting donations for, a sign in front of their market
stand says, "legislative and court efforts to allow the sales of raw
milk, cheese and other farm products."
. . . The growing defiance from small farmers illustrates their
increasing frustration with rules that they say penalize them and favor
industrial producers, who were the source of headline-grabbing disease
outbreaks such as the E.coli-infected spinach that killed three people
last year and last month's recall of 21.7 million pounds of
E.coli-infected ground beef.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/19/
AR2007101902757.html
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