Michigan Dept of Agri Forces Farmer to Dump 248 Gallons of Organic Milk and Break 1200 Free Range EggsDaisy Luther The Michigan Department of Agriculture must be so proud of their deeds, after they forced Joe and Brenda Golimbieski,the owners of Hill High Dairy and Jenny Samuelson, the owner of My Family Co-op, to dump out248 gallons of milk, to break 100 dozen eggs, and to destroy an undisclosed amount of fresh cream, butter and cheese. According to a post on the Hill HighDairy page on Facebook, the agents from the MDA stood over the family, watching as the food was destroyed. 100 dozen eggs Each egg had to be broken. 248 gallons dumped in a sprayer that had to be witnessed by MDA being dumped and sprayed on the field. One member wrote angrily: Looking at the website and Facebook page, all I see are happy, well-treated animals, actually roaming around in fields. How is it that Michigan approves of the horrific conditions in its states factory farms, where animals are tortured, drugged, and crammed into cages for the entirety of their miserable lives, but raising animals humanely and naturally is considered dangerous? What is wrong with the world when REAL farming is treated like a crime and fresh food is treated like the crystal meth? Ill tell you whats wrong big corporations do not want us to have options. They want a monopoly and they are working hard to destroy our other choices. Big Agri clearly has many good friends in the Michigan Department of Agriculture.Clearly the Department of Agriculture really means the Department of Big Agri. They arent there to support small farmers or people who wish to be self-sufficient. They are there to lock down the market for corporate farms. (Like Dean Foods, who also owns Horizon Organics read more about the way this company does business they own up to 90% of the corporate milk business in the state, according to an article onThe Complete Patient.) David Gumpert, a raw milk advocate and owner of the siteThe Complete Patient wrote: The government-sponsored dump of nearly $5,000 of milk, eggs, butter, and cream from MichigansMy Family Co-Opyesterday carried a very clear and powerful political message to all Americans: We control your food and we dont like you buying your food outside the corporate food system. Every now and then, we are going to remind you of what bad children you are being by taking your food and throwing it in the garbage. In fact, we are going to do more than remind you, we are going to completely humiliate you by preventing you from even feeding it to farm animals and instead forcing it to be disposed of in a landfill or dumpster If you think I am exaggerating the intent of what is going on here, ask yourself this question: When was the last time you saw government agents seize and condemn food from a place like Foster Farms or Taco Bell or Del Monte or Kelloggs or Trade Joes when their food has been found to contain pathogens, or made people sick? Theres been not even a suggestion that food at My Family Co-Op contained pathogens or made anyone sick.(Read the rest of Mr. Gumperts excellent essay on the subject) The state of Michigan appears in the news again and again for infringing upon the liberty of its residents to choose what they wish to consume. Recently, they took away the right to farm from ordinary people, rescinding a law that had been on the books for years. Before that, Michigans Department of Natural Resources destroyed a farmers heritage pigs, calling them an invasive species. This horrible visual of a farmer destroying fresh food while an agent stands over him to make certain that its inedible will stick with me. Its like a scene from a movie, where the vanquishing enemy goes scorched earth on the denizens of the area they have conquered, ruining their crops, stealing their food stores and, most of all, making certain that they know theyve been defeated. Except its not a movie. Its life in America. The barbarians are members of the government, and it is our own farms that are under siege. Daisy Luther is a freelance writer and editor. Her website, The Organic Prepper, where this first appeared, offers information on healthy prepping, including premium nutritional choices, general wellness and non-tech solutions. You can follow Daisy on Facebook and Twitter, and you can email her at daisy@theorganicprepper.ca If you enjoyed this article, please Vote for The Organic Prepper as a top prepping web site. 