Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Amish Farmer Busted for Selling Illegal White Substance

Unpasteurized milk. Arlie Stutzman was arrested for selling raw milk to an undercover agent in a sting operation:
Last September, a man came to Stutzman's weathered, two-story farmhouse, located in a pastoral region in northeast Ohio that has the world's largest Amish settlement. The man asked for milk.

Stutzman was leery, but agreed to fill up the man's plastic container from a 250-gallon stainless steel tank in the milkhouse.

After the creamy white, unpasteurized milk flowed into the container, the man, an undercover agent from the Ohio Department of Agriculture, gave Stutzman two dollars and left.

The department revoked Stutzman's license in February. In April, he got a new license, which allows him to sell to cheese houses and dairies, but received a warning not to sell raw milk to consumers again.

A neighbor apparently tipped off the authorities on this extremely dangerous activity. It's certainly good to know that the Ohio Department of Agriculture was right on it. I wonder how they are in regulating factory farms?

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