by Tyler Durden
Nationwide demand for raw milk has never been higher, as out-of-control bureaucrats in their ivory towers in Washington, DC, exploit bird flu outbreaks in dairy herds to financially crush small farms while ensuring that large-scale farms owned by mega corporations, which produce questionable/unhealthy food (hence America's obesity crisis), remain in control of the nation's food supply chain.
The latest overreach in the war on raw milk comes as the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) ordered dairy farmers to work with the federal agency to test for bird flu (H5N1).
On Friday, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack wrote in a statement, "This new milk testing strategy will build on those steps to date and will provide a roadmap for states to protect the health of their dairy herds."
"Among many outcomes, this will give farmers and farmworkers better confidence in the safety of their animals and ability to protect themselves, and it will put us on a path to quickly controlling and stopping the virus' spread nationwide," Vilsack said.
The new testing mandate gives the federal government yet another foothold in controlling the nation's milk supply and moves one step closer to banning raw milk, all under the guise of combating "bird flu."