"For Pet Consumption Only -- Not for Human Consumption" has to be one of the funniest jokes I've read on the buckets of yogurt and various cheeses I've seen circulating locally. Bren was the first to point it out to me, on some yogurt she had purchased from Shepard's Hill Farms. Apparently, if the dairy in question is not pasteurized, it's illegal to sell for humans to eat. But it's okay to give to your pet?Glades Ridge Goat Dairy has started selling their goat cheese products at the Hwy 441 farmers market on Saturdays, and on their labels they make it clear that these things are not for human consumption. But their goat cheese is so tasty! I love to mix it up with fresh basil, oregano, sun-dried tomatoes, and drizzled with a ton of really high-quality olive oil.
My feeling is, if you want to purchase locally produced items, shouldn't you have a say as to what you want to put in your body? Peoples are always screaming about smaller government, so here you go! Wooo! I'm living la vida loca, baby!
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Very clever packaging it as pet food! I would eat it too. On other fronts, thank you for your site and effort with it. I've got you in my Google Reader and will link to your goat cheese post this morning.
Martha Ann
www.allthings.goat.com
OMG!! This is crazy!!
I love various cheeses too, & never thought if some were pasteurized or not!! I just assumed they were - cheezed?
How is cheese made again?
Isn't sour milk/yogurt heated until you get quark/cottage cheese & then you can make 'cheese' out of this? Guess there are other methods.. am now intrigued!
We make sour milk at home (& never gave it to pets! What pets eat yoghurt?!) - & Dad drinks raw milk all the time (every day for the last 15 years or so) & he's the healthiest in the family!
I wonder what this was brought on by - food poisonings or TBC or...? (Or just big guys wanting monopoly? hmm..?)
You bring up many good questions, of which I am not able to answer. I often thought cheese was milk stuck in a cave somewhere in France. I am most likely wrong in some way about that supposition.
So, when you make sour milk, are you making yogurt without the "active cultures?" My friend, Bren, made yogurt a couple of times, and she had some kind of culture that was added to the milk in order to activate whatever turns it into yogurt.
Really, what dog in their right mind would eat yogurt?
Martha Ann, thank you for your comment! I will look at allthingsgoat! I am more friendly towards goats after eating their delicious cheese.
Michele: We were suspended. Here's the story that I sent to all our customers this past Saturday.
Joe nubians@gladesridge.com
Dear Friends:
The reason that I’m sending you this email is to let you all know why Glades Ridge Dairy is not at the Alachua County Farmers Market.
Yesterday I received a call from Helen Emery, the president of the Board of the Alachua County Farmers Market. Helen informed me that we were suspended from selling our milk and cheese until the next Board meeting in October, when it will be decided whether or not to suspend us permanently. The reasoning behind this decision was not because anything bad had occurred, and is as follows – we are selling unpasteurized dairy products and the Board fears that, if anyone became ill from eating our products, they would be liable and sued. Helen told me that they had consulted with a number of attorneys and other scientific experts. The conclusion of these experts was that the sale of our dairy products at the Alachua County Farmer’s Market was a liability due to the inherent dangers of raw milk, and because our customers may not be fully aware of or educated about what they were purchasing. [Note that we are in full compliance with all Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services regulations and possess a fully executed permit to sell raw milk/dairy as long as it is properly labeled.]
We sincerely hope to be back at the Alachua County Farmers Market soon. Until then, our products are available for pick-up from the farm. We are located north on SR 121 to Worthington Springs, and then about five miles west on CR 18. If you’d like to pick up at the farm, call me at 386-266-7041 for directions and to arrange a pick-up time. I’ll be glad to introduce you to the dairy herd too, and you can also see first-hand where the does are milked and cheese is produced. We are committed to producing quality products for you, and want you all to know that we will do everything that we can to be back at space #20 selling milk, cheese and eggs as soon as possible. If you go to the market and are so inclined, let the market manager, Jared Sweat and any of the board that happen to be there, know what you think. Your support is vital to helping us resolve this. You can also contact the market via email: Jared Sweat’s email is marketmanager@441market.com and Helen Emery’s is hme@441market.com
Thanks very much, and we hope to see you soon.
Joe Pietrangelo for Glades Ridge Dairy
Joe Pietrangelo and Greg Yurish, owners/operators
Email me directly for the full text of the above, and to be on the "update" list.
Thanks.
Joe
nubians@gladesridge.com
Joe, thanks so much for commenting. If it's okay with you, I'm going to take the text of your comment and add it to a new post.
I was very upset to hear about the suspension and have emailed Ms. Emery of the Alachua County Farmers market about this. Hope it helps. Look forward to seeing you guys at the Food Expo for the Citizen's Co-op!
Thanks, Michele! At this point, support from our customers may be critical to working this out. I really appreciate any help that you can provide!
Joe
nubians@gladesridge.com
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