03/19/2026
For most of US history, milk was milk, just as God gave it to us — fresh, local, and bought directly from the farmer. Not too long ago, milkmen transported milk using horse-drawn carts and followed delivery routes. Only in the last century did government regulators steadily convert ordinary food into a bureaucratic product, insisting that uniform “safety” requires centralized control, industrial processing, and one-size-fits-all rules around the country.
The result has been predictable, and is seen in rural America: fewer small producers, higher compliance costs, less consumer choice, more monopolies, and a food system increasingly dominated by politically favored middlemen. In other words, powerful lobbying interests achieved policies that reduce competition, driving up costs for consumers.
Raw milk has become a hot topic in that larger struggle. Across the country, legislatures are beginning to push back — not because lawmakers suddenly discovered nutrition, but because citizens are demanding the freedom to buy and sell food without government acting as a national dietician. When the state treats peaceful commerce as a crime, it denies the first principles of a free people: the right to contract, , the right to property, and the right to make voluntary choices for one’s own household.
Read the rest of this terrific article by former Wisconsin state legislator Ty Bodden @ https://thenewamerican.com/us/raw-milk-and-food-freedom-let-farmers-feed-their-neighbors/
