FDA Sued For Illegal Suppression of Raw Milk
Recently the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its unconstitutional ban on the interstate sale of raw milk.
In 1987 when the FDA first restricted interstate raw milk sales, they did this reluctantly because of a court ruling prompted by a consumer group.
The FDA and USDA have shifted their tactics in recent years as well. They now target consumers who purchase raw milk instead of the farmers who sell it. In Georgia recently, officials forced a man to destroy 110 gallons of raw milk that he was delivering to customers who had already paid for them.
The basis of the case is that the FDA is overstepping its constitutional bounds by banning interstate raw milk sales. When customers travel to nearby states to purchase raw milk legally and then cross the border back into their home state where sales are illegal, they are forced to break the FDA’s rules.
