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The Ohio Department of Agriculture in Mount Hope, OH set up a sting operation to nab Arlie Stutzman, putting an end to his dangerous illegal activities once and for all.

From the June 26th Akron Beacon Journal:

Last September, a man came to Stutzman's weathered, two-story farmhouse, located in a pastoral region in northeast Ohio that has the world's largest Amish settlement. The man asked for milk.

Stutzman was leery, but agreed to fill up the man's plastic container from a 250-gallon stainless steel tank in the milkhouse.

After the cool, creamy white, unpasteurized milk flowed into the container, the man, an undercover agent from the Ohio Department of Agriculture, gave Stutzman two dollars and left.

Alrie Stutzman is Amish, his henious crime was the selling of a jug of unlabelled unpasteurized raw whole milk (I may have made a complete hash of the proper/accepted adjective order here). The purchaser of the ilicit substance was an undercover Department of Agriculture officer.

A Sting operation? Just how hard is it to entrap an Amish farmer? I guess there aren't any crack houses in the area that the local authorities need to keep their eye on. And Two Dollars? That wil certainly put a dent into the worldwide illegal Amish raw milk distribution network. It will break them. The streets of Ohio will finally be completely cleaned up, no more "wild moo," as it's known on the street, will be destroying America's youth. And just how far did your crime fighting career fall when you're relegated to doing undercover work for the Ohio Department of Agriculture?

I understand the dangers of consuming raw unpasteruized whole milk. Lots of nasty stuff can occur in raw milk, in fact I wouldn't be suprised if the whole jug sold in the sting operation was just loaded with deadly DHMO. The again, raw milk has been enjoyed for thousand of years. Somehow, civiliztion survived.

And, really, how big of a problem was this? Were truckloads of the stuff leaving the farm? I sincerely doubt that Stutzman was advertising on television or the internet. A police officer had to come to his house and ask for it. The officer even had to bring his own container.

Crazy, crazy stuff. Stutzman broke the law, that's clear, but come on! The local authorities spent tax dollars coming up with their elaborate scheme to entrap this dangerous criminal. That was certainly money well spent - JUST LOOK AT THAT SARCASM DETECTOR - IT'S OFF THE SCALE - LOOK OUT, IT'S GONNA BLOW!!!!!!

Yeah, a sarcasm detector, that's a great idea.....

BOJ