Very often, there is nothing so destructive and harmful as government
bureaucracy, in which nameless, faceless automatons make decisions based
on inflexible, arcane and inane rules.
And it isn't just the
federal bureaucracy; states can be just as guilty of blindly
implementing policies that are clearly idiotic. Take Michigan, for
example, and the subject of food.
As reported by Daisy Luther, the "Organic Prepper," at LewRockwell.com,
"While Americans in the nearby city of Detroit face life in third world
conditions, unable to even afford running water, the state of Michigan
decided to direct its resources towards cracking down on a small food
co-op in Standish for having the utter audacity to provide milk, butter,
cream and eggs to people who bought shares in the organic dairy."
Luther
said the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) is the culprit here;
they "must be so proud of their deeds" after forcing Joe and Brenda
Golimbieski, owners of High Hill Dairy, as well as Jenny Samuelson,
owner of the My Family Co-Op, to "dump out 248 gallons of milk, to break
100 dozen eggs, and to destroy an undisclosed amount of fresh cream,
butter and cheese" because, ostensibly, the state didn't get its pound
of silver.
'This is such a shame'
Pictures of the destruction were posted to the Hill Hill Dairy Facebook page here: Facebook.com.
According
to the dairy's owners, the MDA threatened to arrest co-op owner
Samuelson for "selling food without a license." But the farm is a co-op, where people must by shares to belong, and the food is exchanged and consumed internally, not sold to the general public.
But
the MDA's bureaucrats declared that the co-op contracts were not valid,
wrote Luther, "and therefore, instead of being shared, the food was
being sold."
"Because co-op members had paid for their shares,
technically the MDA stole food that belonged not just to the Golimbieski
family, but to every single member of that co-op," she continued.
Co-op members responded angrily, as was understandable. One wrote:
This
is such a shame! I paid for these products and this is what
happened!!!! They are all criminals!!! Government stealing all our food!
I paid just so that Jenny and the farmers
didn't have to carry the burden all on their own!!!! A crying shame.
Shame on Michigan's Department of Agriculture! Criminals everyone on
u!!!!
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