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  • From: Robert Farr <rbfarr AT erols.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Small farms and processing issues
  • Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:58:44 -0400


<If raw milk is as good as you say it is, (or say others claim it is)
then why are you not drinking it?>

Uhhhh - I don't drink milk because I don't like it. (And it gives me
gas... Hey - you asked!)

<To put it in perspective, it is not possible for a small farm to afford
to set up a processing plant on farm.>

Uh - Rick? - I have processing facility on my farm. Cost me $25K. I've
already paid it off. This year.

Also - you might want to talk to Joel Salatin, probably the best-known
farmer in the nation on his 550-acre Polyface farm. Joel has built a
poultry processing facility - and it didn't cost "in the millions".

Sanitation has nothing to do with it. Joel's facility proved - by USDA
testing - to be TWENTY-FIVE TIMES safer than the local USDA-approved
processing plant. And the govt. still won't let him process his cows at
Polyface!

This is ridiculous!!! As Joel notes, "clean is clean". (In fact, the
growth of government has gone beyond its bounds here - and to what
purpose? Looks like jobs, to me - and the expansion of an already
overburdened and flawed bureaucracy.)

And, nope - I don't have anything against success. I'm all for it - and
am aiming for it my/self. What I AM against is irresponsible factory
farms which have destroyed the land and the rural way of life. And for
what? The lining of the pockets of a few.

You can call me socialist, you can call me Left. You can call me
anything (except late for dinner). But I believe in the rights of the
people to make a living, keep the land (and the air clean), keep the
dollars in the local community, and live their lives without undue
intervention. (Guess that makes me a Libertarian, huh? To steal a
phrase from Salatin - with my on spin on it, of course - I'm really a
Buddhist Libertarian Environmentalist!)

These are the values espoused by our foreparents. And they are the
values the people who love the land.

--
Robert Farr
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