Wisconsin Judge: No Right to Decide What to Eat Without Permission from State

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 29, 2011

photoWisconsin man arrested for selling raw milk.

Demonstrating his ignorance of core values enshrined in common law and what Judge Cooley defined as the “right to be left alone” from overly pernicious government interference, a Circuit Court judge in Wisconsin has ruled that people who consume raw milk have no right to do so.

In response to a request from the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund for clarification in a court case on the issue, Judge Patrick J. Fielder wrote that the “court is unwilling to declare that there is a fundamental right to consume the food of one’s choice without first being presented with significantly more developed arguments on both sides of the issue.”

According to Fielder, citizens must get permission from the state before deciding what they can or cannot eat or drink.

“Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow,” he decided, and added that “Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice,” not without permission from government.

Fielder underscored his belief – and the belief of the state – that an individual must gain permission from government to consume food. He wrote that only “a license holder” can sell milk and the license holder “must do so in a way that complies with the laws of Wisconsin.”

Mike Adams of Natural News talks about the war against raw milk and cheese.

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The nanny state in Wisconsin mandated that an individual does not have a right to consume raw milk after the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection said individuals in the state tested positive for campylobacter jejuni, a bacterial infection, they claimed was linked to consumption of unpasteurized milk.

In response, Senate Bill 108 was introduced. It would “legalize the sale of raw milk, decriminalize innocent farmers, and allow consumers to buy the milk they choose,” explains Wisconsin Campaign for Liberty.

Fielder’s response to the argument that food consumption is a personal choice outside the purview of government represents the troubling and growing mindset of bureaucrats and politicians who believe the state has an overriding interest in individual decisions, no matter how mundane.

Recent legal action by local government around the country highlight this. In Michigan, a woman faced 93 days in jail for the crime of growing a vegetable garden on her property. After a court threw the absurd charges out, vindictive local officials came back and attempted to renew an earlier charge against the woman for having unlicensed dogs.

City bureaucrats have gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure residents – more akin these days to subjects and vassals – are not allowed to grow their own food.

In Oklahoma in 2009, a city councilman said during debate on outlawing community gardens: “How do we know what people are going to be growing? Vegetables? Maybe. Or, maybe something else,” he said. “Is there going to be someone that inspects what is growing?” Tulsa city council bureaucrat Jack Henderson alluded to residents growing marijuana in order to make his argument that the city should inspect gardens.

Running afoul of state and its wilderness of rules and regulations is now drearily common, if not outrageous. In August, police shut down a lemonade stand operated by a 4-year old in Coralville, Iowa, because the girl did not apply for a health inspection and pay for a permit.

Massachusetts followed suit when state police closed down a green-tea stand operated by a 12-year old.

Woman fined $500 for allowing her kids to run a lemonade stand.

The inexplicable and growing effort by cities and states to close down lemonade stands is a growing phenomenon that demonstrates the determination of over-bearing government to regulate – and license and revenue-generate – all aspects of daily life, even the most mundane and harmless.

Fielder’s assertion that citizen-vassals do not have a fundamental right to decide what they consume without first gaining permission from an over-bearing government is a strike against the core values of liberty and self-reliance enshrined in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.






 
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  1. OK, I HAVE A SIMPLE QUESTION OR YA ALL! why are these people letting these NAZIS arrest them?????????? IF ANYONE TRIES TO ARREST ME FOR A NON LICENSED GARDEN, THEY WILL BE OPPOSED WITH FORCE. its time the farmers who sell raw milk here, to arm up and stop going to jail for trying to make a living! THIS NAZI JUDGE SHOULD BE REBUKED TO HIS FACE……………..wake up, folks…………….dino from wi.

    • Sheeple are scared. Period.
      Peace

      • I almost want to say those who are awake are a bit scared. The sheople support Big Gov., Homeland Security, And World Communist Peace.

    • They aren’t NAZI’S. Nazi’s would not support the Jewish State of Israel.

      It’s the Zionists taking control of the Gentile Goyim herd.

  2. why no stories on the american troops in kosovo? reports out of there today are sayn that its illegal to fly the serbian flag in the serb held area! american troops are going around the streets pulling them down from houses while allowing the albanian flag to fly.

  3. I foresee a brutal end for those in power. They are going to reap what they have sown a thousand times over!

    • There’s something inside me It’s, it’s coming out I feel like killing you Let loose the anger, held back too long My blood runs cold Through my anatomy, dwells another being Rooted in my cortex, a servant to its bidding Brutality now becomes my appetite Violence is now a way of life The sledge my tool to torture As it pounds down on your forehead Eyes bulging from their sockets With every swing of my mallet I smash your fucking head in, until brains seep in through the cracks, blood does leakdistorted beauty, catastrophe Steaming slop, splattered all over meLifeless body, slouching deadLecherous abcess, where you once had a headAvoiding the prophecy of my new found lustYou will never live again, soon your life will end I’ll see you die at my feet, eternally I smash your facefacial bones collapse as I crack your skull in half Crushing, cranial, contents Draining the snot, I rip out the eyesSqueezing them in my hands nerves are incisedPeeling the flesh off the bottom of my weaponInvoluntarily pulpifying facial regionsSuffer, and then you dieTorture, pulverizedAt one with my sixth sense, I feel freeTo kill as I please, no one can stop meCreated to kill, the carnage continuesViolently reshaping human facial tissueBrutality becomes my appetiteViolence is now a way of lifeThe sledge my tool to tortureAs it pounds down on your forehead Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse

  4. To Alex and Staff,

    Suggestion:

    It would be great if there was a permanent, VERY noticable rectangle on your home page where people could go to post only protest/movement ideas. It needs to be separate from the reporting area (perhaps right next to it) You guys do such a great job of reporting what’s happening globally, and many individuals write posts with great ideas for peaceful protests in response to your articles. Understandably, these articles need to be fluid and get moved into archives so new articles can come in. But these great ideas for protests get moved with them, and they don’t get a chance to build up any momentum. We may have lost some really good solutions this way, and solutions are why we’re all doing this… its what this is all about right? There are so many of your listeners that want to get a good protest idea to the masses, or wish they could take part in something that is going on currently, but don’t know where to start. So I’m requesting a permanent location on the home page for ONLY protest ideas to be posted, where anyone can go, at any time of day and post their idea or look for an idea they can take part in. Any one care to second my request?

    Your fellow human being

    Leynna
    Peace

    • I second that…

  5. So the government thinks we do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of our choice, not without permission from government.
    Note, were through with getting permission from government to do anything!
    We will no longer put up with Government expecting us to get their permission for anything.
    Why should we obey the government’s laws, when they don’t even obey their own laws?

  6. The system doesn’t serve your interest because it is too busy serving special interest. Do you care? Wake up to these facts and realize that you must act if you want to go beyond the status quoi. There are those that are still asleep and convinced in their beliefs that modern times don’t require a more reasonable and fitting form of control over government. They believe that the system for what may have worked for the government over a hundred years ago can’t be improved upon. They are wrong! It is inherently systemic in the process for government to be easily, continually and totally gamed by special interest. Yet, this can be changed and improved but it must be done systematically if the improvements are to last and not be subverted again and again by special interest! Actions speak louder than words. It is now time for action! If you are willing to take action read on?
     
    Presently, elected officials votes reflect at least one of three possibilities: their interest, some other (special) interest or the interest of their constituents. The problem comes when elected officials don’t reflect the interest of the majority of their constituents with their votes. Yet, most elected officials are just smart enough to get elected while saying they will vote for their constituents interest. Well, most people no longer trust their words on this.
     
    Isn’t it time that you participate directly in government concerning your own interest. No, not as a politician, but as a constituent of your elected officials. If you were to participate directly in government in this capacity you might find that yours and most other people’s interest are the same most of the time. Together, in this capacity you might find that great positive changes can be accomplished.
     
    There is a modern-day equivalent of the movement that added the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. It is a political movement that will make local, state and national government, more transparent, less corrupt, more accountable, less wasteful, more fair and just. That political movement is “The People’s Branch” at ThePeoplesBranch(dot)org. The People’s Branch is a realistic, reasonable and non-violent, way for the people to regain control of government from special interest.

     The People’s Branch is working to create an additional check and balance upon each elected official by giving their constituents the power to directly participate in the governing process alongside their elected officials. It works like this. Presently, elected officials exercise their vote regardless of their constituent’s interests. However, with The People’s Branch, the change comes when legislation is finished and the elected officials have voted. i.e. The job to implement and start legislation remains with elected officials. Presently, elected officials see the need for or are persuaded (by their constituents or some other (special) interest) to create legislation regarding some matter. Then the other elected officials either see the need or are persuaded (by their constituents or some other (special) interest) to vote one way or another on that legislation. Whither or not any particular legislation serves some constituents interest or some other (special) interest is always debatable.

    More to the point, with The People’s Branch each elected official’s vote concerning a legislative matter may remain the same or be changed by a majority vote by their constituents. Constituent voting is voluntary and may be exercised by electronic means from home or office. Constituents only vote on their own elected official’s vote. Constituents may only vote to approve or disapprove said officials vote. Only when the majority vote of the constituents approve their elected official’s vote does their vote remain unchanged. Otherwise, if the majority vote of said constituents disapprove the elected official’s vote then said official’s vote is altered to reflect the position of the majority of the constituents. In this way, the constituents are the ultimate check and balance for their own elected officials.
     
    The technology now exists that can implement this process. Implementing a “People’s Branch” at each level of government, local, state and national, will virtually guarantee a government that is more transparent, less corrupt, more accountable, less wasteful, more fair and equitable. Politicians fear this political movement because they know that if it succeeds then their power and control will come to an end and the people’s influence upon government will truly begin.
     
    There has never been a greater need for the political solution(s) provided by The People’s Branch. But no one is saying it is going to be easy. Yet, neither was the Civil Rights movement or the Women’s Suffrage movement, etc., etc. So, why is it that even though everyone is for better government, a political movement that would ultimately improve government at all levels by neutralizing special interest’s control is yet to be implemented? It hasn’t happened yet because you haven’t made it happen. When things get bad enough you will be willing to make it happen then. Why wait and go through that pain when the needed changes can be done now. Why not save yourself and a lot of people a lot of pan and hardship?
     
    Again, take action and get involved with the most likely political solution that has a chance to truly reform the evils of government in a sustainable way! You can help make this political movement a service to everyone. Start a petition drive. You, your family and future generations will be grateful for the positive changes.

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    Only Fools Sit And Wait For Tyrants To Fullfill Their Plans
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    • they’ve gone after the milk. they’ve gone after the lemonade. but where are the fudge police?

  8. The pilgrims and founding father would have STRUNG UP these scumbag officials, like they deserve. I hope hell is nice and hot for those bastards.

    Surprised they didn’t jail the kids in the new “Amerika”. I suppose we should all be oh so thankful….. SCREW THAT

    Reservoir Dogs. Chair- gas can.

    • Yes, don’t you understand the true purpose of the “justice system”? It is to ensure that justice is never carried out, as it should be, on-the-spot and in-the-moment by those who are vested.

      That is the Law of the Jungle, and it is a threat to criminals so they have done away with it.

  9. Hey, The Law’s the law, right?

    We should call them before every meal and snack and ask like good citizens.

    • SL…how long do ya think it will take for them to scream “UNCLE!” ?

  10. Now is the time to take to the streets and make your voice heard. The occupy Wall.st protests are a good place to start. They are spreading so go check if they are near you. Remember to spread YOUR word! I am planing on heading to Chicago with my Ron Paul audit the fed sign.

    • *End the fed

  11. Robbed blind and half dead from moral cancer and industrial disease humanity musters a last minute surge of lifesaving adrenaline charged insight and wakes up to the diabolical hidden agenda of the greedy bastards, mad scientists, evil geniuses and whack-job power freaks utilizing their fabricated fear and forces in an attempt to co-opt the planet for their own incestuous intentions. It’s time to spin our caps around and dig in, It’s time to spit and swing for the fence America. This is our last ups. . . let’s make it count.

    nwosurvivalguide*com

    Good Luck, God Bless and Godspeed, AP57

  12. Just cant wait till when the businesses close up and people are making products for sale to survive and they cant afford the insurances, permits and other govt designated items needed to open a side walk stand on their properties. Especially with out the GREAT RFID CHIP implant that a cop can read as he drives by a persons home and can pull up everyone in the home and listen to their conversations lol or other marital activities at 2 am in their own bedrooms….hmmmm. Their will be a lot of master and johnson exercises in the cop car now, or on the hoods of cop cars lol

  13. Control…Wake up people… you are China!!! the same way they brainwash the Chinese to connform is the same way they brainwash you!!!

    People say they have the right to consume raw milk, then talk about those who choose to eat cakes…Until everyone realises that they can not control others and that people can eat what they like, exercise how they like, dress how they like, live how they like….then nothing will change. You are no better than the ‘raw milk anti’s’ if you look at fat people and judge their way of living

  14. C’mon..
    This is bullshit.
    Haven’t the people in Wisconsin have gone thru enough?
    First, they lose their bargaining rights after weeks of huge protests…
    Now this? No doubt Walker is behind this crap.
    Why are the Wisconsinites letting this happen?
    Time to take matters into their own hands, dontcha think?
    Got weapons? Use them before it’s too late.

    • Nahhhhhhhhhhhhh Just pray daily! GOD is letting everyone decide if they want MANS DICTATES or chose his 10 simple little LAWS called the commandments to follow for their lives HE CREATED…oh ya and the earth to live on and the foods to eat freely (except from the tree of life). lol Guess people are deciding in how they vote and legislate and judge and school and all that they desire….heheheheheeh!

      They are invited back to GOD…with grace and love and forgiveness for being so arrogant towards him. HE did make a way. Jesus!!

      • You simple minded igrnt PHK you’re point is moot!!! Go worship the shroud of Turin dumas!!! Or a rock!!! Or a twig!!! Or a guillotine!!! Oh wait,,,christians do that!!! It’s all warm and fuzzy now!!! I’m good!!! Have a goodin’!!!

        “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”

        HillbillyJihad TheBubbaLiberationFront

      • HillbillyJihad must have had a very bad day. Or life. That was just mean and nasty. You are right and he is wrong. Manners do matter too.

      • mtdewy, you’ve been warming the brainwashing pew way too long.

        Christians like you make me embarrassed of my faith!

        But you are a good example of the devastating effects of 501c3 corporate Sunday mainstream worship.

        Rip open the OT for awhile. See how “lovey dovey” those heroes were. Balance it out a little son.

    • That was Governor Doyle that told us we could not have raw milk….we called and sent letters and he was owned by the big farms…so it did no good

  15. sirs, mayest i partake of this morsel?! O, GRANT ME THY BLESSING! O MOST HONORARY, MOST NOBLE! lift up thy countenance upon me! MAYEST I?! PLEAASE? PRETTY PLEASE?

  16. Also…
    …on a different note. I think im gonna have my boy sell some lemonade here in my town and see what happens.
    Ill keep you up to date.
    Z out

  17. Im very thankful here in NY that i havent seen any of this kind thing.
    We have an open farmers market one or two days a week.
    Many in my community and in the outlieing areas have gardens.
    It is everyday day here. up north of me there are roadside stands that still have the honor system instead of someone there all day.
    Whats going on around the country is not happening here.

    • oh yeah we have some of those. needless to say, people weren’t being very “honorable.” places were being broken into all over.

  18. The state is equal to or worse than the federal government. It would be better to break into small countries than continue on the path of states rights.

    • if im not mistaken states ARE they’er own countries under our reapublic.
      The 9th and 10th ammendment show that the states may if so choose to have MORE, and/or LESS stringant laws, as to give them power to rule they’re state however they may as long as it is costitutional. under the law.
      Michelebachmann NEOCON SCUM; we already have our own countries.
      We just have to do our part to make each state; our country the way we want it. The way our for-fathers gave it to us.
      Raign in the Fed government through awareness at the local and state levels.
      ALEX! thanks brother. you really make a diff.

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  20. I run MemphisHistory.com. I’m also the author of Memphis Then and Now. I’ve researched the “milk problem” that occurred here in Memphis in the 40s and 50s. The problem was that people didn’t tend to wash the milk pails. Sometimes they were so caked that strongly impacted the volume. Homogenization of the milk, my mother assures me, was a great step because the milk wasn’t constantly separating. Pasteurization (boiling the milk) was not and is not a fix for the problem which was a lack of hygiene.

    • the truth is that now they pasteurise and homogenisethe milk..basically it ain’tmilk

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      • It’s just my middle name.

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  23. If this judge said this to me in court, I’d ask him… “Who the hell do you think you are telling me what I can and can’t eat?” Monsanto is much worse… everyone needs to understand the psychopaths behind Monsanto are trying to patent all the food (plants animals) so they can claim to legally OWN IT and there will be no shortage of judges like the one in this story who say they do!

    IMHO, this sick agenda isn’t going to stop until the leaders of it start turning up dead. These people aren’t powerful or brilliant… they do have one key advantage, they own and control the media and brainwash others into thinking they’re protecting themselves and our country against “boogeymen” intent on destroying us… What’s worse is that our law enforcement agencies, military, TSA, and everyday citizens are buying into this propaganda… i.e. “see something… say something”.

    IRONICALLY, you’re serving the people who created the “boogeymen” and their agenda… which is to rule over us like we’re their personal slaves!

    They’re success and power is an illusion… it’s not hard when the FED can supply you with fiat $. (They take it from people that actually earned it by devaluing their dollars). Many people assume that you’re smart, intelligent, and a successful leader if you have a lot of money… to the contrary, in my experience the majority of extremely wealthy people excel at one thing… EXPLOITING OTHERS!

    I always laugh when I hear a newscast or read that they are giving to charities… how many truly charitable people do you think accumulate 10 Million+ without hitting the lottery? Here’s a hint… NONE!

    How many of our “leaders” (Hillary, Liebermann, etc) or “captains of industry” (CEO’s – Goldman SACHS, BOA, etc) do you think have pumped their own gas or drove their own car? Do you think they do their own grocery shopping or cook for themselves? Do you think they clean their own home or make their own beds? Do you think they would enjoy camping or fishing? Or anything normal people do for that matter?

    The point I’m trying make is this… most of the people we now call “leaders” or “captains of industry” have been exploiting others for so long that they can’t take care of themselves let alone do what’s right or know what’s best for the rest of us.

    We also have “leaders” and “captains of industry” that are “narcissistic sociopaths” and participate in eugenics and profit from misery and death, these people are evil by anyone’s definition… except their own… because they think they have their God’s blessing.

    It is my hope that our military and law enforcement agencies wake up soon and hunt down all the leaders involved in this particular group. Personally, I’d have this group beheaded… I’d encase their heads in glass pyramids (since they have such a fondness for them

    I’d have the heads placed on pedestals at entrances of the congressional buildings, the FED, Major Media Companies, and other NWO corporations as a warning and constant reminder of what happens to people that think they’re gods.

    Note* For any commenters who think we should all weave daisies in our hair and try to reason or forgive the leaders of the eugenics programs… wake up! The sociopaths involved in eugenics programs don’t give a dam about you, God or children.

    • I dig that, there’s no stopping if we keep going down this slippery slope. License for your food…? I’m not being irrational when I say that you’ll need a license to have your damn kid in the near future and they’re gonna be patient about it, slowly chipping away at individual rights but, we’re the ones enabling them, it’s a fucking paradox.

      Oh, as for these corrupt politicians/CEO’s we should force them to watch as we kill their kids in front of them and broadcast it live. I’ll be down to bet that politicians would think twice about taking that corporate pay check.

      • How dare you threaten anyone’s children!!! You DEVIL!!! And for your information, the jerks you are referring to unfortunately don’t give a rip about their children anyway. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES!!!

    • That was when the downfall started to happen…when people believe they are ‘leaders’ when in fact they are servants…they are your servant and are there to carry out the will of the people

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    • samurai sword

    • Endless reruns of Susan Boyle …

      • In the words of george carlin.
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        lol

        • Whoever came up with that ” joke ” should be drawn and quartered !!!

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