This story has been updated.
You may not have heard about Bakers Green Acres family farm before, but their story is as tragic as it is common. You see, farms like the Bakers are being assaulted by armed commandos in state issued costumes for the heinous crime of raising pigs humanely. If that doesn’t make any sense to you, welcome to the land of the free!
Allow me to explain. The Bakers raise a particular type of hog that can withstand the tough Michigan winters outdoors. This outdoor type of pig farming is very humane and very cost efficient. The pigs get plenty of fresh air and sunshine, while eating as much as they like. As far as being a pig goes, they are living the high life. Meanwhile, the large corporate pig farms raise a different breed of hog indoors under extremely inhumane conditions. The corporate pigs actually have to have their tails docked to prevent them from cannibalizing themselves under the stressful conditions.
Because the Bakers are able to raise hogs so efficiently, they pose a competitive threat to the corporate indoor pig farms. Thus, the pork lobby in Michigan decided it would try to push a bill through that labeled the type of hogs being raised by the Baker family as being “feral” in order to drive the outdoor pig farmers out of business. - The lobby was successful. Now, it is a felony in Michigan to raise pigs that have the specific characteristics of the Bakers’ hogs that allow them to withstand the cold climate outdoors.
Of course, the pork lobbyists didn’t actually show up with guns, they simply managed to get a bill passed in the Michigan state legislature that had armed government agents do their dirty work for them.
One farmer describes what happened at his farm:
I was served a search warrant yesterday at 7: 45am.
After 8 guys 3 four wheelers, and 4 hours, DNR decided I was correct. I have killed all my hogs. They gave me papers that say I do not have any hogs on my property. All they saw were dead hogs laying around from my mass slaughtering. It took 12 guys 4 times in there to kill all of them, sows with young, Pregnant sows, dozens of piglets, and old mature boars. It has been a sad few weeks.
Does anyone know what it feels like to open fire on 20 baby piglets in one group which weigh between 5lbs and 15 lbs. They are so adorable and cute.
More info on this story can be found here. Meanwhile, the FDA is busy conducting stings against Amish farmers for selling raw milk, local police departments are conducting armed raids against retailers who sell raw milk, and federal agents are targeting farmers who sell their food directly to the public without going through retailers.
Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay did a short segment on corporate pig farming that you can watch here. Warning, the content is extremely graphic.
Your tax money hard at work.
Photo credit: Bakers Green Acres
Infowars reports:
NaturalNews can now confirm that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has, in total violation of the Fourth Amendment, conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state, one in Kalkaska County at Fife Lake and another in Cheboygan County. Staging raids involving six vehicles and ten armed men, DNA conducted unconstitutional, illegal and arguably criminal armed raids on these two farms with the intent of shooting all the farmers’ pigs under a bizarre new “Invasive Species Order” (ISO) that has suddenly declared traditional livestock to be an invasive species.
Original source:
http://www.libertariannews.org/2012/04/16/michigan-unleashes-armed-raids-on-small-pig-farmers-forces-farmer-to-shoot-all-his-pigs/
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