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

Ah yes...Mark Nolt. Sort of an icon in PA sustainable agriculture. He 
refused to renew his raw milk license and has been repeatedly arrested for 
selling raw milk. There are others, but Nolt is the most notorious....his 
goal is to "break the law to change it". If he lives to be 100, I don't 
think he'll live long enough to accomplish that.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sjc" <indexer AT fairpoint.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Food Safety


> 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
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