State of MN vs. Hartmann's

[Guest guest]

To the Media:

For Immediate Release:

June 16, 2010

What follows is a statement, written on behalf of Hartmann and his

family, owners of Hartmann Dairy Farm, without their permission or knowledge,

(because the State stole their harddrives) in response to the many false reports

released by the State of Minnesota that milk from the farm has made people ill.

If you have any questions, please contact K. Wood at , or

garykwood@....

State of Minnesota to Hartmann:

COMPLY OR DIE!!

The State of Minnesota Department of Agriculture returned to the Hartmann Farm

with another search warrant yesterday and this time they issued " cease and

desist " orders which last week they said they lacked the legal authority to

issue. They must have paid a different lawyer. This is how people with power

execute their small-minded vendettas to crush anyone who dares to challenge

them, and win as Hartmann has proven in the past.

When the Hartmann's pasteurized their milk and sold it through the Wedge, the

Seward Co-op and other great independent outlets, the stores were threatened

with license revocations from targeted health department investigations. The

Hartmann's met the Grade A standards, but refused to apply for a Grade A permit

to allow vindictive inspectors the right to interfere with their right to engage

in private business.

The Hartmann's grew, changed their products, and sold directly to consumers on

order. The challenge they made to the State led to the 2005 decision of the

Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of the farmer's right to sell the

products they produce from the land they occupy.

While the Departments of Health, Agriculture, and Natural Resources, stand by

and allows Monsanto, ADM, and other proponents of massive profits from

agri-chemicals to operate freely at the risk of human health and the

environment, to poison the land and turn farmers into sharecroppers, they have

unlimited time, and resources to bully a tiny opponent for the same reasons

anyone chooses to bully another.

Is this just the whine of a constant complainer who has taken a beating because

he won't follow the rules? Absolutely not! Not if you consider the fact that

the State's forensic experts at the Department of Health have not produced a

single positive e.coli O157:H7 test of any edible product from the Hartmann

farm.

So what, say the bullies of the Department of Agriculture. The epidemiologists

and the knaves they put up to investigate the Hartmann's, used interview sheets,

pre-printed with a single-source question, Did you consume any products from

the Hartmann's in the last week? This was not an investigation. This was a

pre-planned sneak attack on an honest, hard-working, sincere and passionate farm

family who believe in the safety and quality of their products. 52 school

children from Lafayette, Minnesota visited the farm the week before the first

State raid. They had all the free raw milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream they

could eat. Their teachers and chaperones joined in. Not one single person,

child or adult, complained of any illness they related to their farm experience.

The State of Minnesota says they wouldn't have been feeling so good if they ate

the cow shit!! Probably not. But the Hartmann's aren't the ones shoveling the

manure in this case. For that job you have to go to Greg Pittman, Gayle Radd,

and some others whose penmanship is so bad you can't read their names on the

official forms. These government agents, paid to serve the whims of the

Sheriffs of Nottingham found dust on top of the bottling machine! OH MY! There

is carpet on the storage shelves! OH NO! You have hard drives in your

computers!! OMG!!!

We must protect the public they cried, and seized it all. They embargoed for

destruction food never tested, demanded the Hartmann's document their use of

their own food, and to refuse anyone who lawfully comes to the farm to buy their

milk!! So you can have it for free!! Bring your bottles, can, pails,

containers of your choosing, and the Hartmann's will fill them until the cows

run dry!

This has nothing to do with health or the rule of law. This has nothing to do

with due process, freedom of choice, or any other right you might think you have

under the Constitution. This is about power. Anyway you can get it. Anyway

you can use it. No more " give me liberty or give me death! " It's, My Way or

the Highway! Comply or Die!!

State of Minnesota, See my middle finger rising! I don't like you, or the horse

you rode in on!