The Unseen War on American Farms

Guns drawn, a SWAT team kicks in the door of a private company. Are the cops there for drug dealers? Mafia mobsters? Terrorists? No, the long arm of the law is out for the real harmful contraband: raw milk and grass-fed chickens. Nick Gillespie sits down with Kristin Canty, director of Farmageddon: The Unseen War on American Farms, a new documentary about tiny farms and co-ops that have been raided by the Meals & Drug Administration, the US Department of Agriculture, and state-level agencies and have had their goods seized and destroyed. One especially gruesome case involved a flock of sheep becoming killed because of the non-existent threat of the sheep acquiring Mad Cow Disease. Farmageddon does more than document government overreach the movie also requires situation with FDA claims that raw milk and other products well-known with foodies are unsafe and filled with unsafe bacteria. In a nation exactly where a lot more and more people are embracing tiny-scale and organic agriculture, the government is on a collision course with a developing subculture. Canty says this is only film she intends to make. She aspires to open a farm-to-table restaurant in Massachusetts, a venture that will be created all the much more difficult by onerous and misguided regulations. Shot by Meredith Bragg and Josh Swain. Edited by Anthony L. Fisher. Roughly 5.28 minutes. Go to reason.television for downloadable iPod, HD and audio versions of this and all our videos.