Whew...glad we pay them to stay on guard for us...

[Coito ergo sum]

A yearlong sting operation, including aliases, a 5 a.m. surprise inspection and surreptitious purchases from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania, culminated in the federal government announcing this week that it has gone to court to stop Rainbow Acres Farm from selling its contraband to willing customers in the Washington area.

The product in question: unpasteurized milk.

It’s a battle that’s been going on behind the scenes for years, with natural foods advocates arguing that raw milk, as it’s also known, is healthier than the pasteurized product, while the Food and Drug Administration says raw milk can carry harmful bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli and listeria.

“It is the FDA’s position that raw milk should never be consumed,” said Tamara N. Ward, spokeswoman for the FDA, whose investigators have been looking into Rainbow Acres for months, and who finally last week filed a 10-page complaint in federal court in Pennsylvania seeking an order to stop the farm from shipping across state lines any more raw milk or dairy products made from it.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... k-locally/

Yep - worth every penny. Those unsuspecting customers...duped by the Amish to buy unpasteurized milk...

[Svartalf]

Your taxes at work.

Don't regret it, many are the people in French governments I'd like to strip of their every asset and force into slavery in gold mines to make them pay back the tax money they have squandered.

[Ian]

Well done FDA!

[Gallstones]

Would the Amish allow a co-op, English buying shares in an Amish Dairy?