The morons from the MI Dept of Agri are no different than the goons described in AS ~ they don't care and they're too stupid to understand the difference between what's right and what's wrong...they just do what they're told.

Free Range Eggs brings back a good memory. Our first time in New Zealand in 1986 we saw signs all over the place, "Free Range Eggs". My wife said, "I wonder why they're giving them away?" She's actually my third wife and my third natural blonde, at least this one figured it out. We had a good laugh.

when someone reacts to the enforcers of stupid laws then maybe the enforcers will reconsider whether to pursue them or not.

It's very simple - those tiny brains have to justify their existence, to themselves as well as to others, otherwise, they just might disappear and no one would notice.

This is the flip side of an unhealthy relationship between business and government.

How so? Why do you think the food police laid on this raid? To protect the CAFO chicken ranchers and large-scale dairymen who had to pressure-cook (Pasteurize) their product because they cannot possibly keep the milking operation as clean as it has to be.

(CAFO = Confined Animal Feeding Operation.)

Imagine if Hank Rearden had been a lot smaller than he was, but the government sat on him anyway, to benefit Orren Boyle.

That's what you're looking at here.

Hah, I know the military version of that.

If you can move it, move it
If you can't move it, paint it
If it moves on its own, salute it

When referring to Southeast Michigan, think union mentality and you'll understand the craziness. Can I tell you a story?
When my Mom was 9 years old, she came to this country from Poland right after WW1. While on the ship, a man in a sailors uniform was giving out cups of hot chocolate to the guests. She had never tasted chocolate. She went back for cup after cup. The sailor asked her where she was going. She told him, Michigan. (They were speaking German/Yiddish). He told her, Michigan? Is that where all the Michigoss are? (Michigoss in German could be translated into crazy or crazy person.) She ran crying to her Mom that they were going to the land of crazy people. As it turned out, she was right.

Next time tell them to come back with a warrant! Then contact the press.

Precedent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v....

TPTB implemented industrial farming that necessitated treatment procedures to reduce contamination (and negatively impact taste and nutrition). Then to block competition they apply the rules to small farmers who have no need for the rules since a pissed off customer(s) can picket a small farm and put it out of biz.

A year ago I put up a new sign on my business and needed two permits one for placement and an electrical permt $200 later the sign went up and no inspector came to check it. I call that a fundraiser beyond the new taxes I will also be paying

You are a rational thinker—their enemy.

Another perverted application of the Commerce Clause. There was a coop back east that was in the news last year (or before) for something similar to this that had to shut down because they were offering raw milk (unpasteurized) to their members and that was a "health hazard".

This is just absurd.

Bureaucrats are ingrained with a willful ignorance of the law of diminishing returns. The cost of enforcing a regulation for often questionable benefit never enters their tiny little minds, and we are forced to pay for their misguided actions.

I recently read about a new regulation for yet another safety mechanism being forced on U.S. auto makers. The DoT bureaucrats proudly announced that the new device would save the lives of 15 children over the next 5 years, at a cost of only $500M to the consumer. More children than that die from drowning in bathtubs each month, so either their concern "for the children" is misdirected, or just a phony mechanism to justify their paper-shuffling existence.

What a damn shame.

That will come. I get reminded of this quote everyday. [Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.]

If it is a means of production they will target it.
Damn them!

Maybe we won't even be able to have aveggie garden in our backyard to share with neighbors without a permit

Hopefully they don't start requiring licenses to allow a vegetable garden or fruit trees in our back yards.

This is happening all over the country. I buy raw milk from a dairy on a coop/shares because of the same communism. We have to push back. They should have told them to arrest them.

I remember a quote from the civil rights era and the guy was saying, yea we're going to get hurt, put in jail, maybe even shot. (Paraphrase)

Now that applies to a much wider swath of the population. I loved growing up and having our own chickens ( minus the crap). we went to our neighbor a farmer for milk and I loved crawling up this huge stainless tank, and filling up our milk bottles. In the next morning there would be an inch or two of cream on the tops of the bottles. After leaving home I drank very little milk because it tastes like they took water and put white food coloring in it.

Ah fond memories. Got time for one more? I was running late one morning and forgot to collect the eggs before breakfast, so just before school I run to the coop, collect the eggs, had a lot so I put a few in my coat pockets. Later in school I reached in and realized I left one, now crushed egg, to warm my pocket.
God bless my parents,
Aloha

Why do they need a license?

Why didn’t they just get a license?

That is just sickening.