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and pour it out on the ground in front of those wake up call if you are out of touch with what is taking place on farms these
who bought and paid for it, where the only thing days, but we are talking about the United States of America. If the above
more regulated than milk is marijuana, and paragraphs sound like exaggeration, actually that’s just a quick sampling.
where washed and bagged lettuce at a farmers It doesn’t stop there. How do these agencies get away with their foul deeds?
market is ticketed for being a processed food. They prefer to perpetrate them when there is not a lot of media attention
We see a country where the government tells around.
a small farmer he is permitted to sell his milk to This movie does more than just talk about allegations of raids and
private customers, then turns around and sends abuses. There is actual footage capturing several of these events as they
armed goons onto his farm to stop him from happened. The USDA and FDA are responsible for most of the attacks and
doing so. They also steal tens of thousands of don’t try to deny them. They even seem to be quite proud of their achieve-
dollars worth of equipment and food. ments—except when you try to ask them questions on camera. Producer
We see a country where sheep that are not Kristin Canty tried to do that a number of times and the best she could
sick are seized and slaughtered for a disease that do was a brief chat with one New York spokesperson who gave out a few
doesn’t exist. Other farms and food clubs are carefully evasive statements. In every other case the officials ran for the
raided with SWAT teams where no charges have hills when they saw her coming. It seems they are not so bold without their
been filed, or they are guilty of misdemeanors at big guns. I’ve met Kristin several times. She’s not scary looking.
most, and there is no legal explanation for this. Small farmers show more courage when facing a gun than government
I consider the production and choice of food regulators show when facing a camera. It sure is reassuring to know our
a basic human right and there is no moral jus- government is bravely protecting us from those notoriously evil and dan-
tification for these government actions. What’s gerous small farmers. I guess next they will go after killer bunny rabbits
the deal? The rationale being sold to the public and kittens. Nothing embarrasses tyrants more than being caught acting
is that these laws, regulations and enforcement like tyrants openly where everybody can see.
actions are needed to ensure public safety. If we Do your part to embarrass a tyrant and see this movie.
stop and think this through, it gets very strange.
Some areas have laws against selling raw milk The Biggest Weight Loss Secret in the World
and some don’t. I guess that means raw milk is Jason Christoff
safe in some areas but not others. But, if you www.biggestweightlosssecret.com
buy raw milk where it is legal to do so and cross
imaginary political boundaries with that milk, Disk One in this set of eight CDs discusses mental programming.
that is illegal, implying that crossing that bound- Your beliefs define the boundaries of the box your mind operates in. They
ary magically rendered the milk unsafe. In places determine what you accept as true and what doesn’t have a chance. That is
where sales are illegal it is legal to give it away. the key point and I personally see this frequently. I’m often asked how to
Apparently milk is only dangerous when money convince someone whose mind is made up that they are wrong. You don’t.
changes hands. No amount of evidence in the world will convince someone to believe what
There is no law against drinking raw milk they don’t want to believe. You can’t help someone who doesn’t realize
anywhere. Are you confused yet? If you an- he doesn’t know what he is doing. The most common example in modern
swered yes, good. That’s the point. It gets slightly America is the mindset that government authorities are infallible. If the
stranger when you consider that the method of FDA or the CDC says raw milk is dangerous, that’s it. The matter is settled.
choice for restoring safety is sending in goon Disk Two points out that you don’t really want to be normal. If you
squads who point big guns in everybody’s face. look around at what normal is in America today, you have a smorgasbord of
I know that always makes me feel safer. problems to choose from. Normal could be diabetic, overweight, suffering
Where is this jackbooted thuggery taking mental health issues or other chronic illnesses, unemployed, spending big
place? Is this Nazi Germany? The Soviet Union? money on drugs or healthcare, and the list goes on. Normal is overrated.
Communist China? No, no and no. This is your Obesity in particular is a major concern. Even people who are not obese

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