good news for people who love bad news

It's election season, a time of year when people (and now corporations and unions, thanks supreme court!) shell out hundreds and thousands of dollars to influence the way you choose the largely ineffectual elites who will represent the lobbyists' interests in our state and national capitols. It's also a time of bitter divisions along party lines. But here is a chance for the left and the right to unite under an idea that seems important to both sides of the political spectrum: the right to choose what food one eats without excess interference by the government.
Morningland Dairy in the Ozarks of Missouri is being ordered by the feds to destroy 50,000 pounds of cheese. The reason for this is that a sample of their cheese tested positive for listeria months after it had left their farm and gone to a store in California.
The FDA is unwilling to comply with the law requiring the producer of a product that is discovered to be tainted to be given a sample on which to conduct their own testing. Tests taken at the farm have all come back negative for listeria. The farm has offered to test every batch of cheese leaving the farm, but to no avail. The farm has been told that they have no legal recourse and no ability to appeal and that they should busy themselves with destroying 8 months of work. They were forced to dump their milk for 5 weeks and now are only allowed to sell it to a wholesaler (probably at a loss or close to it). This farm has been making cheese for 30 years and has never had a complaint of illness.
After my experiences at a farm in Connecticut, I have become pretty suspect of the FDA and their testing procedures and am really more likely to believe that a witch hunt is going down on these poor hardworking people.
Their website is http://morninglanddairy.webs.com/
and you can read about their fight against the FDA's orders here (and make a donation if you see fit) http://uncheeseparty.wordpress.com
Many of the people leaving comments seem to be fairly right leaning - reporting that they have notified Glenn Beck and Anderson Cooper of the situation at the farm. But it's nice to know that at least there is something people can come together about. In the interest of balance, I wrote to Amy Goodman to let her know what's going on.