[Homestead] An argument for libertarianism

Gene GeRue genegerue at ruralize.com
Tue Nov 14 18:44:38 EST 2006


Here's a guy who worked hard, figured out a way to get milk to 
consumers cheaper than anyone else and he is being screwed by 
organized milk and the DC Whorehouse. The major losers are consumers:

Maverick dairyman fights lobbyists and lawmakers
Arizona milk mogul battling with his industry

Scott Wong and Kelly Carr
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 14, 2006 12:00 AM

Long before he discovered a way to sell milk for far less than his 
competitors, before he enraged the multibillon-dollar dairy industry 
so much that Congress passed a law to stop him, Hein Hettinga clipped 
cow hooves for a living.

It was menial work. But it put him on a career path that, in time, 
would lead him to found Yuma-based Sarah Farms, one of the largest 
and most innovative private dairy operations in the country.

Now, 12 years after building his dairy business into a proverbial 
cash cow, Hettinga finds himself waging war against big-dairy 
lobbyists, high-profile lawmakers and the federal government.

The rest of the article is at:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1114dairy1114.html



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