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Offline WingNot

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Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« on: April 19, 2018, 07:44:04 pm »
Forget narcotics. Uncle Sam has a new substance to crack down on: all-natural skim milk.

Food and Drug Administration regulations make it a federal crime for dairy farmers to call all-natural skim milk exactly what it is—skim milk. Instead, the FDA demands that farmers label additive-free skim milk as “imitation milk product,” because, in the FDA’s mind, skim milk just isn’t the real thing.

The FDA’s finicky rules are not going unchallenged, however. Attorneys with the Institute for Justice are challenging those rules on behalf of a dairy farmer, Randy Sowers, who wants to sell all-natural products and label them honestly, without the threat of fines or imprisonment.

Randy and Karen Sowers founded their South Mountain Creamery in Maryland on rented land back in 1981. They took out a loan and bought 100 cows. Today, three generations of Sowers work on their family’s 2,200 acre farm. They have more than 600 cattle, plus 16,000 chickens. Their family employs more than 75 people.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/04/13/family-farm-could-face-prison-for-calling-skim-milk-by-its-name
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2018, 08:33:45 pm »
Skim milk isn't really skim milk?

I'm glad we have the FDA to look out for us.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2018, 08:35:16 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on April 19, 2018, 08:33:45 pm
Skim milk isn't really skim milk?

I'm glad we have the FDA to look out for us.

Tell me about it.  They protect us udderly everyday.... :whistle:

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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2018, 09:13:20 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 19, 2018, 08:35:16 pm
Tell me about it.  They protect us udderly everyday.... :whistle:

I got a beef with this.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2018, 09:14:01 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 19, 2018, 08:35:16 pm
Tell me about it.  They protect us udderly everyday.... :whistle:

I hope no one else tries to milk any more jokes out of this thread.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2018, 09:15:58 pm »
Quote from: the_doc on April 19, 2018, 09:14:01 pm
I hope no one else tries to milk any more jokes out of this thread.

Yep, liable to get creamed, and cheese everybody off.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2018, 09:37:19 pm »
Quote from: the_doc on April 19, 2018, 09:14:01 pm
I hope no one else tries to milk any more jokes out of this thread.

Let the cow chips fall where they may. 
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2018, 09:42:36 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on April 19, 2018, 09:15:58 pm
Yep, liable to get creamed, and cheese everybody off.

Yep. I'm gonna hoof it and find some place to hide... But not in Jersey.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2018, 09:47:00 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on April 19, 2018, 09:42:36 pm
Yep. I'm gonna hoof it and find some place to hide... But not in Jersey.
When you are there guernsey a good show. 
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2018, 10:01:51 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 19, 2018, 09:47:00 pm
When you are there guernsey a good show.

That'd be a teat.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2018, 10:03:43 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 19, 2018, 09:47:00 pm
When you are there guernsey a good show.

I'm dropping off this thread.  I've got no skim in this game.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2018, 10:05:58 pm »
Quote from: the_doc on April 19, 2018, 10:03:43 pm
I'm dropping off this thread.  I've got no skim in this game.

Yep. Don't horn in on it if you can't whey in.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2018, 10:07:38 pm »
Quote from: the_doc on April 19, 2018, 10:03:43 pm
I'm dropping off this thread.  I've got no skim in this game.

Stick around and chew the cud.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2018, 10:58:32 pm »
@Wingnut

I milked cows in my yoot.  There was a spinner thing in the stainless steel room that was used to separate the heavy cream from milk.  That is probably not considered "real" either.

What a bunch of idiots!

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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2018, 11:01:12 pm »
I should have known this would become a comedic thread. LOL!

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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2018, 11:12:46 pm »
Quote from: Slip18 on April 19, 2018, 10:58:32 pm
@Wingnut

I milked cows in my yoot.

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I worked on a dairy farm several summers as a yute too.  It was up early and hard work.  My Mom set it up for me.  Seems I was a bit of a slacker and she wanted to show me how the real world worked.  Cussed her at the time.   I thanked her many years later.   She was the best.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2018, 11:19:13 pm »
@Wingnut

I bet! My brothers and I "got" to go to a farm every summer, separately. I am sure the farmer and his wife could not handle the three of us all at one time.

But what an experience.  I actually did the old "push, pull and squeeze" on my favorite cow twice daily.  Great experience!

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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2018, 11:24:54 pm »
Quote from: Slip18 on April 19, 2018, 11:19:13 pm
@Wingnut

I bet! My brothers and I "got" to go to a farm every summer, separately. I am sure the farmer and his wife could not handle the three of us all at one time.

But what an experience.  I actually did the old "push, pull and squeeze" on my favorite cow twice daily.  Great experience!

 :beer:

I have pail milked cows before.  This was a big operation. Automated suction equipment that would make a dominatrix jealous.     888high58888
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2018, 11:30:16 pm »
Ah crap. All the good puns have been milked for all their worth already.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2018, 11:59:07 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on April 19, 2018, 11:30:16 pm
Ah crap. All the good puns have been milked for all their worth already.

I have never known you to not try to churn it up.
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #20 on: April 20, 2018, 12:06:08 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 19, 2018, 11:24:54 pm
I have pail milked cows before.  This was a big operation. Automated suction equipment that would make a dominatrix jealous.     888high58888

I put my finger in one of the auto milkers. That suction was strong.  Ouch!

There is now a low hanging fruit there for anyone to grab.  LOL!

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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2018, 12:15:48 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on April 19, 2018, 11:59:07 pm
I have never known you to not try to churn it up.

Don't butter him up...
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #22 on: April 20, 2018, 12:44:27 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on April 20, 2018, 12:15:48 am
Don't butter him up...
He will chaff if I don't
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
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Re: Family Farmers Face Prison for Calling Skim Milk by Its Name
« Reply #24 on: April 20, 2018, 12:51:53 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on April 20, 2018, 12:49:23 am

That might work.   Not that I would know.
He is a big boy. 
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