Farms: The Unseen War on American Farms
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Guns drawn, a SWAT team kicks in the door of a private business. Are the cops there for drug dealers? Mafia mobsters? Terrorists? No, the long arm of the law is out for the real dangerous contraband: raw milk and grass-fed chickens. Nick Gillespie sits down with Kristin Canty, director of Farmageddon: The Unseen War on American Farms, a new documentary about small farms and co-ops that have been raided by the Food & Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and state-level agencies and have had their products seized and destroyed. One particularly gruesome case involved a flock of sheep being killed because of the non-existent threat of the sheep acquiring Mad Cow Disease. Farmageddon does more than document government overreach; the movie also takes issue with FDA claims that raw milk and other products popular with foodies are unsafe and filled with dangerous bacteria. In a country where more and more folks are embracing small-scale and organic agriculture, the government is on a collision course with a growing subculture. Canty says this is only film she intends to make. She aspires to open a farm-to-table restaurant in Massachusetts, a venture that will be made all the more difficult by onerous and misguided regulations. Shot by Meredith Bragg and Josh Swain. Edited by Anthony L. Fisher. Approximately 5.28 minutes. Go to http://reason.tv for downloadable iPod, HD and audio versions of this and all our videos.
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If not for raw milk, none of us would be here! At one time or another all of our ancesters, on one side or another,survived for some time in their lives on milk,butter,buttermilk or cheese from the family cow. Check the stats from the center for disease control for the real story on the safety of pasturised milk. That is unless monsanto has ordered it altered!
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Excellent report. Making life safe, making food safe, by targeting, even criminalizing environmentally less damaging, more community friendly methods of produce and distribution? There's no REASON or SENSE behind it. Sounds like the strategies and tactics of the New World Order, or in fact the new world disorder, which must come from the minds of people with a mental disorder. Mad and maddening.
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Non pasteurized milk may contain harmful bacteria no matter whether the cow is grass fed or not. The farmers can just pasteurize the milk and all will be fine.
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They need guns drawn for fear of.... what?? A mad sheep or mad cow charging them?? These cops, like most, live in a fantasy world..
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ahem* not the government but the corporations
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Thank you so much for educating us. I had no idea about this! ALL AMERICANS should watch this kind of video. It's the kind of news we never get on TV...
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Votes don't count, where we spend our money counts. If we spend money with bad companies because they are cheap, you are voting for what they do. To others and eventually to us. Eating good quality unprocessed food is a vote for health. Dial down the sugar, ramp up the good fats and protein and you can be well fed with much less food. Raw egg and milk blended smoothie provides the body with raw protein it may not have had before. Amazing increase in energy and health.
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9th & 10th amend ment establish that the fed eral govern ment has no authority in these areas. This makes their activities unlawful and our govern ment criminal.
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SWATtheBigBoys;)Lmbo!!!
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What you guys don't have any more crooks to catch no drug dealers, dealing anymore so now its on to the farms control the food ....... control the people oh Your mothers must be so proud.....
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Ok, a big clinker right there at the beginning. Chick says, "Sheep don't GET mad cow disease! Pfft!" Yes, that is true, hence the name, but madcow, like Alzhiemers is a prion disease, a result of non-living biochemical effects that is TRANSMITTED by sheep nerve tissue. They don't get it but they DO give it to cows. That said, it is almost certain that the American livestock culls were pointless. Mad cow was a hysteria for the most part, even in the UK.
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Why do people in 'law enforcement' so often seem like a bunch of hired thugs for the criminals in government? Governments pass laws to oppress the population and any opposition to their corrupt behaviour and then you get the 'goons in uniform' going round to enforce it. Anyone that mindlessly enforces the law, (when they know it's morally wrong but 'legal'), is scum. No? Is it FAIR to arrest farmers for absurd reasons at the same time as the bankers and politicians ruin the country for us all?
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BULLSHIT! You must be a vegan, we have canines and we're supposed to eat meat! Homoginized milk is bad for you, not raw milk.
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good idea! ....and the gladiators can be the pricks who worked on the factory farms and abused the animals!..BY GEORGE! i think we've got a plan lol
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only one problem...milk ISNT "good" for us!..neither is meat..wanna NOT get sick?...dont eat it!
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BLAME OBAMA
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Is this the same FDA that approved of pink slime in our meat? But healthy non GMO foods and raw milk and everything else essential to fight allergens and keep your immune system healthy are bad? B A B A B A B A B A B U L L S H I T!
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New host. The practice of feeding sheep offal is now banned in several countries. The other concern about the sheep is that scrapie is highly infectious to other sheep and the prions can remain dormant in soil for many years...the risk of transmission to other flocks is very high and can wipe out large amounts of animals quickly.....this is not to take sides but to provide better understanding.
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You are right when you say that sheep don't get mad cow disease....however a disease in sheep called scrapie is in the same category as mad cow (a neurological disease caused by a similiar prion - a cross between a virus and protein) and the first outbreak of known mad cow in Britain several years back was because scrapie infected sheep offal (leftover sheep parts after processing including the brain) were being ground and added to cattle feed. The prion mutated so that it could take over its