Headline : Got Raw Milk?

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One Pennsylvania farmer is willing to risk jail time over sales of raw milk.

In the last 25 years, the number of raw milk producers in the US has grown from roughly 27 to 3000.by Stanislav Salamanov via Shutterstock

Every morning, Amish farmer Amos Miller, who lives on 75 acres of land in Lancaster County, PA., gets up early to milk 43 Jersey cows. He also raises beef cattle and 150 pigs that dine on whey and organic oats, as well as chickens that peck for insects among the greenery. His sons are the horsemen of the family, raising standardbreds for transportation and brawny Belgians for mowing and harvesting hay. The animals live outdoors, grazing on grass and herbs. The Jersey cows’ milk and milk product—all unpasteurized—are sold to a nationwide network of private customers.

 Miller’s life sounds bucolic however, this year has been anything but, with the farmer coming up against the Pennsylvania court system in January. Two Shiga toxin illnesses producing E.coli in children, one in New York, the other in Michigan, were traced to Miller’s raw milk products. (Miller asked that his lawyer, Robert Barnes, respond to questions about allegations of food-borne illnesses originating from his farm. Barnes, however, couldn’t be reached for comment.) 

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