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Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> Bob; there's technically a 'raw milk license' in PA, but anyone who has one 
> will tell you that they are harassed beyond belief by the PDA. People doing 
> 'cow shate' (where other people don't buy the milk, but buy a share of the 
> cow) are regularly dragged into court. I don't know if they win or not, but 
> who wants to live that way? Their plan is working.
>   
They have been concentrating in the last few months (actually, now that 
I think of it, probably close to a year ) on a Mark Nolt, Amish guy 
(Beachy or one of those groups, but Amish) somewhere south or southwest 
of Harrisburg.  They've raided him at least twice, hauled him off to 
jail,  and hauled off tens of thousands of dollars' worth of cheeses, 
other product, and equipment, which so far has magically been replaced 
(as well as some pretty hefty fines paid), in support, by Amish groups, 
both his own and others.  As far as I know that whole this is stalemated 
in that stage.

The Amish make, on the face of it, good targets:  they don't fight back, 
they generally try and follow "english" rules, they are meek and not 
mouthy, not given to hiring lawyers, they're not apt to make a splash 
about being unfairly arrested or badly treated, etc.  And in some ways 
they really don't "get it"; an Amish guy not too long ago told me, after 
a years' incarceration for a non-crime, that "That sheriff guy told me I 
was the best prisoner they ever had in that jail."  So their separation 
and ignorance of society works for for and against.....

Currently they (Amish) are scapegoats--that is, they would be scapegoats 
if it weren't all bogus to begin with-- in MI, OH, and PA, with some 
activity reported in IA, but I didn't get the whole story on that one, 
over raw milk/milk product sales. 

And increased migration to Belize is well underway.....

SJ