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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Food Safety
  • Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 09:54:14 -0500

Another wild idea, could people incorporate as a "commune" or "order" , even if they don't live on the same land ? Like "the farm" in TN, or "The Mennonites, etc", but just not live together? That's all rhetorical and ridiculous but, that is what statist intrusion leads one to do to try and achieve what should >be most simple...................

Wouldn't that mean they would have to co-own the farm? No one around here is THAT interested in local food.

The Powers That Be don't like that sort of thing. They obviously had some kind of grudge against that family in Ohio...it IS a real story; I found the original newspaper version:
http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2008/12/03/news/mj309059.txt

They were arrested for operating a 'retail food establishment' without a license. According to Ohio code 3717.01:
(C) “Retail food establishment” means a premises or part of a premises where food is stored, processed, prepared, manufactured, or otherwise held or handled for retail sale. Except when expressly provided otherwise, “retail food establishment” includes a mobile retail food establishment, seasonal retail food establishment, and temporary retail food establishment.

Maybe they violated that (I suspect, though, that a Coop isn't the same as 'retail sale'), but is that a cause for being held at gunpoint and having every thing confiscated? You'd think they were a meth lab, not an organic food coop. Perhaps both are equally threatening to the Powers that Be.

Lynn Wigglesworth




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