If you read into the story, this cooperative made record errors, didn't cooperate with correcting those errors, were served a C&D, ignored the C&D, and that precipitated the raid.
If they'd been selling across state lines and made the same mistake it wouldn't have been Michigan Dept of Ag raiding them, it would have been USDA FSIS.
When you are selling food and an inspector asks you for your paperwork, you have your goddamn paperwork. And when you're served a C&D, you stop what you're doing and lawyer the fuck up.
Here are some quotes from the farm in an Epoch Times article that give the other side of the story.
“They showed up with a letter claiming they had the right to seize our raw dairy products because they couldn't verify where the cheese had been inspected, which didn't make sense because we clearly had all the information they requested,” Mrs. Armstrong told The Epoch Times. “We let them know that the raw cheese had been made with animal rennet and processed in a government facility and aged for 60 days, and had all the paperwork.
“We had done everything we were supposed to do, so we are all just confused,” she added.
Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development...stated that the co-op failed to comply with regulations but did not specify the violations.
Your donation will help cover the extensive legal fees... as it takes the recent cease & desist raid to court, as well as help continue to support the small family farms that rely on Nourish to purchase their products, help Nourish pay employees and keep them from going out of business.
Because I guarantee you without any doubts at all that co-op, or their upstream farms, are taking USDA Dairy Margin Coverage money. In that industry, everyone does.
And that, well, sort of implies you're going to cooperate with all the other rules.
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If you read into the story, this cooperative made record errors, didn't cooperate with correcting those errors, were served a C&D, ignored the C&D, and that precipitated the raid.
If they'd been selling across state lines and made the same mistake it wouldn't have been Michigan Dept of Ag raiding them, it would have been USDA FSIS.
When you are selling food and an inspector asks you for your paperwork, you have your goddamn paperwork. And when you're served a C&D, you stop what you're doing and lawyer the fuck up.
Here are some quotes from the farm in an Epoch Times article that give the other side of the story.
They have a givesendgo page where they claim "lawyering the fuck up" is exactly what they're doing. https://www.givesendgo.com/nourishcooperative
(I edited out a weird typo)
none of that is real. it's all fake and gay. it's none of their fucking business what they sell to who.
Well, now, see, that's where you're wrong.
Because I guarantee you without any doubts at all that co-op, or their upstream farms, are taking USDA Dairy Margin Coverage money. In that industry, everyone does.
And that, well, sort of implies you're going to cooperate with all the other rules.
No