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Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5/16/11: The Milk Police
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On April 20th, after a year-long undercover sting
operation, armed federal agents acting on behalf of the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raided the business of
Pennsylvanian Amish farmer Dan Allgyer to prevent him
from selling his unpasteurized milk to willing, fully-
informed customers in Maryland. Federal agents wasted a
whole year and who knows how many of our tax dollars
posing as customers in order to catch Allgyer committing
the "crime" of selling his milk. He was not tricking
people into buying it, he was not forcing people to
purchase it, and there had been no complaints about his
product. These were completely voluntary transactions,
but ones that our nanny-state federal government did not
approve of, and so they shut down his business. The
arrogance of the FDA and so many other federal agencies
is simply appalling. These types of police state raids on
peaceful businessmen, so reminiscent of our tyrannical
federal drug war, have no place in a free society.
The FDA claims its regulatory powers over food safety
give it the authority to ban the interstate sales of raw
milk, but this is an unconstitutional misapplication of
the commerce clause for legislative ends. As we have
seen, if the executive branch feels hamstrung by the fact
that our framers placed lawmaking authority in the
Legislative Branch, they simply make their own laws and
call them "regulations." We all know how the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses such bogus
regulation authority to harass, hinder, and shut down
countless other legitimate businesses. Sadly, Congress
has been far too lax for far too long as the executive
branch continues to encroach on its areas of
responsibility and thereby undermines our system of
government.
Most Americans understand that if you don't want to drink
unpasteurized milk you simply do not buy it. But the
federal government solution is pre-dawn raids which
destroy the livelihoods of honest, hardworking families
in this time of continued economic hardship.
I am outraged by this raid and the many others like it,
and that is why last week I introduced HR 1830, a bill to
allow the shipment and distribution of unpasteurized milk
and milk products for human consumption across state
lines. This legislation removes the unconstitutional
restraint on farmers who wish to sell or otherwise
distribute, and people who wish to consume, unpasteurized
milk and milk products.
Many Americans have done their own research and come to
the conclusion that unpasteurized milk is healthier than
pasteurized milk. These Americans have the right to
consume these products without having the federal
government second-guess their judgment or thwart their
wishes. If there are legitimate concerns about the safety
of unpasteurized milk, those concerns should be addressed
at the state and local level.
I am hoping my colleagues in the House will join me in
promoting individual rights, the original intent of the
Constitution, and federalism by cosponsoring this
legislation to allow the interstate shipment of
unpasteurized milk and milk products for human
consumption.
If we are not even free anymore to decide something as
basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom
do we really have left?
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