Good Old Minnesota! Yeah right!

[Bubblingbrooks]

I am glad I no longer live there. However, it is only a matter of time before my state is dealing with the same tactics.

http://www.thecompletepatient.com/j...suburban-mom-to-become-target-of-food-po.html

Then the Minnesota Department of Agriculture went on what I have described as a "rampage" of collective punishment, that included shutting down a Minneapolis buying club and another dairy farmer unrelated to Hartmann.

It also included going after Rae Lynn Sandvig. I should say that Sandvig has remained silent about her identity over the last six months in an effort to maintain her privacy, even though pieces of her experience have been made public. But now she's decided other people need to know what can happen even to ordinary people who become serious about obtaining nutrient-dense foods, and last Friday she spoke to me in her first public interview.

The whole nightmare began one morning in early June, when seven police and MDA investigators showed up at her house as she was finishing her shower, and presented her husband with a criminal search warrant.

They spent two hours going through the family's refrigerator and questioning her about whether she was reselling milk, meat, and other food. She says she was "terrified, horrified, traumatized" by the home search, breaking down in tears in front of the seven investigators and police rummaging through her kitchen.

The event seemed even more threatening when she learned an MDA investigator had visited the homes of three of her neighbors who had shared in the milk and beef Hartmann delivered, seeking specifics about her food distribution practices. She says the investigator threatened these consumers with subpoenas that would require them to testify unless they allowed him into their homes to answer questions and look into their refrigerators, and then sign an affidavit listing foods they had acquired via Sandvig. The neighbors have since clammed up to her, she says, but one told her the investigator was particularly interested in packages of meat labeled "Not for Re-sale" on which the farmer Meat that is slaughtered or processed in a non-USDA-inspected facility is labeled this way to prevent its retail sale.

 

[Woodland Woman]

That is outrageous! People control. You control the food you control the people.

 

[SKR8PN]

All the more reason to grow your own, take care of your own, and not worry about your neighbors.

 

[sparks]

Makes me mad and sad @ the same time!

 

[i_am2bz]

This almost left me speechless...until I realized that this is one of the reasons I'm striving to be as SS as possible, to keep the government out of my bleepin' business...until they make being SS illegal, too.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

The sad and scary thing is, I stand a good chance of being her position in the future, due to my involvment in the same things.
Our state is upset that certain language in the food laws does allow us to continue at present.
It won't take much for that to change though.
I have learned that we have informants.

 

[i_am2bz]

I have learned that we have informants.

You know, I wondered how the MDA found out about what this lady was doing...:/

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

I have learned that we have informants.

You know, I wondered how the MDA found out about what this lady was doing...:/

If you look at all raids of this kind, there is always an inside informant.
As time goes on, I am going to be pickier then ever with taking on new members for the farm we work with.

I am terrified of starting our own co-op, but we will do it anyways.
Goats are already here!

 

[curly_kate]

That is completely asinine! Do they seriously not have real criminals or real problems to deal with that they have to victimize people just trying to feed themselves and others??? You'd think they were making meth or something with that treatment.