1,000,000 LBS of organic food grown on 3 acres in urban Milwaukee

Check out the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozvrp_uTH98&feature=related

And their website:
http://www.growingpower.org

A fantastic opportunity for local, healthy, sustainable agriculture here in Wisconsin.

Food recalls due to undercooked meat and e.coli bacterial infections are common from the nation’s largest distributors. They have the potential of sickening hundreds of thousands of people each time. Here are two recent examples:
ConAgra has recalled all Marie Callender’s brand Cheesy Chicken & Rice frozen meals because they are contaminated with salmonella:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-06-17-marie-callender-recall_N.htm?csp=usat.me

Campbell Soup Co. is recalling 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs with meatballs after a cooker malfunctioned at one of the company’s plants in Texas and left the meat undercooked:

http://www.wisn.com/politics/23941639/detail.html?treets=mil&tml=mil_natlbreak&ts=T&tmi=mil_natlbreak_1_08550106172010

Large politically connected corporations like this won’t get so much as a fine for endangering the health of thousands. However, small farmers who are not “part of the family” are not so fortunate. A small local farm that provides food for 100 people and does not sicken anyone… simply unacceptable. They will have there property destroyed and their business shut down for daring to compete with the large multinationals.

The mafia works by intimidating and shutting down competition there by creating monopoly profits for the insiders. In the past, the mafia operated by using strong-men to extort protection money or threaten other businesses. Today the corporate mafia uses the government, which it controls, as their strong-man to shut down their competition.

Welcome to the new “freedom.”

Local News Reports:
http://www.channel3000.com/localvideo/index.html?v=29116

http://www.wkow.com/Global/story.asp?S=12585898

The story of a courageous farmer:
http://wholefoodusa.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/alert-amishman-busted-for-raw-milk/

http://freetheanimal.com/2010/06/heroism-a-uniquely-human-trait-the-story-of-vernon-hershberger.html

Humans have been drinking milk from animals for thousands of years, long before high-tech practices of pasteurization and homogenization. Ironically “The Dairy State” now only has a handful of farms that are still producing milk that is not subject to alteration. Many people desire to consume products that are not commercially produced, genetically modified, filled with hormones, pesticides and antibiotics and stripped of many of their nourishing properties. Such products are available throughout the world. One would think that in a free country an adult could decide to purchase these natural products without interference from their government. However, our modern day rulers continue to treat the people like children and dictate what food they can and cannot eat.

People who care about the future of sustainable, local agriculture and of the preservation of the last vestiges of a free market should take notice of the state’s heavy handed attempts to shut down the last remaining raw milk producers in Wisconsin. People may also be alarmed about the state’s lack of respect for the integrity of private contracts. Interested persons can read this copy of a letter sent from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture to the owner and operator of Grazin Acres LLC, a small family run operation near Loganville, Wi that works to provide natural foods from their farm to their members.

www.wisconsinrepublic.org/grazinacres.pdf

Whether or not you have or would ever consume raw dairy, everyone is encouraged to contact their representatives and stand up for the basic freedom of deciding for ourselves what type of food will go into our bodies.