Farmers vs. feds.

[The Straight Story]

Farmers vs. feds.
Pa. is flash point in raw-milk fight

In the predawn fog of an April morning last year, armed federal agents fanned out across darkened Lancaster County pastures in search of contraband.

Months of investigation had led to this point. Strong evidence suggested that Rainbow Acres - a small Amish farm just outside Kinzers - served as the hub of a large-scale smuggling operation responsible for shipping hundreds of gallons of illicit product across state lines.

After sweeping past dozing cattle and roosters waiting to crow, the agents finally found what they had come for: dozens of coolers filled with unpasteurized milk.

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"None of us is going back to pasteurized milk. It's a dead product," Reitzig said days after the FDA filed its case against Rainbow Acres. "We can't go back to drinking watered-down chalk."

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