Guest guest Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 Poor Mark! As most of you know, he's the founder and operator of the largest raw milk dairy in the country. After a decade of being under siege, fighting feds, local officials, and even lawsuits, he's currently trying to build a unified raw milk community, but in doing so has put himself under constant attack by the cyber-idiots that make comments on Gumpert's neat blog, The Complete Patient. Mark has been trying to rally (all alone) against them but I don't know how he stays so calm. As I said, the attackers are for the most part pinhead cowards attacking him like a swarm of mad hornets! (actually anyone who posts on that site will get random BS attacks, you don't want to post there unless you enjoy being savaged by nihilistic morons). After 100 or so recent and nasty personal attacks Mark wrote this reply this week. I think it's tremendously INSPIRING and so worth reading. (you can get the full context by going to 's last entry in the blog.... -------------------------------------------------- FROM MARK: Just to be sure....I want to make sure I have answered all of the pending questions? If I have not please let me know and I will try my best to get them answered. Most people that work, work for a team and mission not themselves. Working for yourself is wonderful and rewarding.....if you can. If you have a business or farm and have the previledge of working for yourself....more power to you. I really do wish you health and the best of luck. In the beginning, I milked my cows and I bottled my own milk. That was 2000. Then I listened to consumers....WAP was my core consumer. I them responded to them and I built a team. I added good jobs and I fed many more people every year. I am not sorry one little bit for building a company that is also my family. We have created more than 55 great paying jobs and we have supported our economy by buying 20 trucks and building a creamery, serving more than 35 farmers markets, 400 stores and buyers clubs and adding equipment and etc,.... I have no regrets what so ever. If you think that doing these things are bad then I am not sure what you want for America???? In my humble opinion, we need a thousand more companies like OPDC across America. No one is paid minimum wages at OPDC. There is vacation pay, and many other great benefits including all the free raw milk your family can drink. To build a company and a brand is a personal decision. If we want a strong America we need small and large raw milk dairies...we all need to work together for one thing....the health of our country and the next generation. s comments this time arround are very intersting. I do not agree with his assessment of the judges decision. I know a little bit about Aajonus and I know that Aajonus scares the living hell out of judges. He is the pent-ultimate unconventional fighter and non-conformist. There are few on earth like him. To assume that the judge is looking at a brief that is based on good facts, reasonable legal arguments and etc....is a big leap. Aajonus is not a lawyer. He is a guy with a big heart some very good ideas that are very well intentioned...but he is far from rational in the real world of how this all works. If you want to kick some FDA ass, then you need a successful and professional FDA ass kicker like Emord or . ( kicked FDA butt in Fresno with me and I am extremly happy with his strategy and performance ). Sorry Aajonus, love you brother, but you are not in the legal league to go handing out butt bruises to the FDA through the legal system. This begs for embarrassment and failure. To win a battle legally takes brains and strategic experience. It takes huge amounts of research, skill and money. The place that Aajonus does well is with healing people using completely unconventional and primitive alternative nutritional medicine. That is a place where Aajonus is beloved by many. Aajonus, bless his coyote speaking, red meat eating soul, is not the guy to fight the FDA in court. He is perhaps a great harrassment tool, but that does not win the day or lawsuits with the FDA in federal courts. Judges see this coming 100 miles away and it is blown off as a distraction. I would not measure a judges raw milk decision based on a an Aajonus submitted court document as a measure of a properly fought court fight with a truly great lawyer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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