I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m glad the federal government is spending our tax dollars on protecting us from the plague of, uh, raw milk:

“They came in the dark, shining bright flashlights while my family was asleep, keeping me from milking my cows, from my family, from breakfast with my family and from our morning devotions, and alarming my children enough so that the first question they asked my wife was, ‘Is Daddy going to jail?’”

That’s how Amish farmer Dan Allgyer described an early morning visit last week from two FDA agents, two U.S. Marshals, and a Pennsylvania state trooper. Apparently, investigating a single farmer for possibly trafficking raw milk across state lines requires a show of force.

Can someone please tell me what risk raw milk poses? Granted, perhaps there’s some health concerns, but as long as people know what they’re getting…what’s the problem?

I mean, how many centuries have humans traded/sold milk among themselves with little or no problems before we had the FDA around to regulate everything for us?