{"id":204,"date":"2011-11-19T05:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T10:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/southern-nevada-health-district-forced-private-citizens-to-pour-bleach-on-home-grown-organic-food.html"},"modified":"2011-11-19T05:53:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T10:53:02","slug":"southern-nevada-health-district-forced-private-citizens-to-pour-bleach-on-home-grown-organic-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/southern-nevada-health-district-forced-private-citizens-to-pour-bleach-on-home-grown-organic-food.html","title":{"rendered":"Southern Nevada Health District forced private citizens to pour bleach on home-grown organic food"},"content":{"rendered":"Quail Hollow Farm was holding a Farm-to-Fork dinner for invited guests,\nwhen a health inspector showed up and forced them to destroy the food.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LD_a7nSJsHU&#038;feature=player_embedded\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/LD_a7nSJsHU\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nIn this\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LD_a7nSJsHU&#038;feature=player_embedded\">\nvideo of the event<\/a>\nyou can hear the arrogance of the inspector:\n<blockquote>\nThat&#8217;s all the information you need.\n<\/blockquote>\nWell, no, it&#8217;s not.\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LD_a7nSJsHU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\nThe inspector said it was a public event because the guests had paid for d inner.\n<p>\nThe farmer eventually called their lawyer who said ask the inspector\nto see her warrant.\nShe had none.\n<p>\nBut they had already been told their food that they grew with their own hands\nwas not fit for a public dinner, nor a private dinner, not even to feed\nto their pigs.\nThey were forced to pour bleach on it, making it unfit even for compost.\n<p>\nGiven that every food contamination recall in recent years has come\nfrom big factory farms, not from small organic farms,\ndoes this raid seem right to you?\n\n<!--more-->\n<p>\nThe farm sells food to restaurants, and had a truck full of that food\nready to roll.\nThey opened it up and cooked that food instead.\nSo they managed to feed their guests by using their stock in trade.\nBut why should they have had to?\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmtoconsumer.org\/quail-hollow-farm-dinner.htm\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.farmtoconsumer.org\/images\/laurabledsoe.jpg\"><\/a>\nHere&#8217;s the detailed report by Laura Bledso for Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund,\n24 October 2011,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmtoconsumer.org\/quail-hollow-farm-dinner.htm\">\nFarm-to-Fork Dinner Fiasco<\/a>\n<p>\nAs Kimberly Irence asks in the video:\n<blockquote>\nWho owns America now?\n<\/blockquote>\nThomas Jefferson wrote in 1776:\n<blockquote>\n&ldquo;He has erected a multitude of New Offices,\nand sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,\nand eat out their substance.&rdquo;\n<br>\n&mdash;Declaration of Independence\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quail Hollow Farm was holding a Farm-to-Fork dinner for invited guests, when a health inspector showed up and forced them to destroy the food. 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