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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

>  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