{"id":1430,"date":"2011-10-14T15:20:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2011-10-14T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T21:21:37","slug":"the-milk-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/the-milk-police\/","title":{"rendered":"The Milk Police?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How can government dictate what we choose to eat when we each have unique standards for good nutrition?&#8221; Although I believe many could care less about good nutrition, as most believe food only needs to taste good to the eater to qualify for a trip down the gullet, I certainly agree with this rhetorical (or not) question. The government has no business what-so-ever dictating what we can and cannot eat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The article this quote was taken from is about a recent raw milk &#8220;sting&#8221; operation by our government agencies, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mises.org\/daily\/5692\/The-Freedom-to-Buy-and-Sell-Raw-Milk\" target=\"_blank\">The Freedom to Buy and Sale Raw Milk<\/a><\/strong>. I encourage you to read it, and the other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/cse?cx=003957976021531095527%3Afocviubplue&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=raw+milk&amp;sa=Search&amp;siteurl=www-open-opensocial.googleusercontent.com%2Fgadgets%2Fifr%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252Fcse%252Fapi%252F003957976021531095527%252Fcse%252Ffocviubplue%252Fgadget%26container%3Dopen%26view%3Dhome%26lang%3Dall%26country%3DALL%26debug%3D0%26nocache%3D0%26sanitize%3D0%26v%3De94059d4fb999700%26source%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Flewrockwell.com%252F%26parent%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Flewrockwell.com%252F%26libs%3Dcore%253Acore.io%253Arpc%23st%3D%2525st%2525%26rpctoken%3D20211500#gsc.tab=0&amp;gsc.q=raw%20milk&amp;gsc.page=1\" target=\"_blank\">articles on Raw Milk at the Lew Rockwell<\/a> site. I haven&#8217;t read the others yet, but guessing they&#8217;ll be good too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard about the raid on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/apr\/28\/feds-sting-amish-farmer-selling-raw-milk-locally\/?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">Amish milk farm, here&#8217;s a link<\/a> about the &#8220;year long&#8221; sting operation on them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And a note about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/032424_Ron_Paul_raw_milk.html\" target=\"_blank\">legislation introduced by Ron Paul<\/a> in May to allow distribution of raw milk. From the article: &#8220;No matter what one&#8217;s personal position is on the issue of consuming dairy products, the freedom to buy and sell raw milk is a fundamental right afforded to every American under the US Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How can government dictate what we choose to eat when we each have unique standards for good nutrition?&#8221; Although I believe many could care less about good nutrition, as most believe food only needs to taste good to the eater to qualify for a trip down the gullet, I certainly \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/the-milk-police\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-health-helps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-fromme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}