Re: Legal positioning

[Guest guest]

> When going into court the questions really are:

> Is it legal to own a farm animal?

> Is it legal to board an animal?

> Is it legal to co-own an animal?

> Is it legal to milk a cow?

> Is it legal for a cow owner to consume what this cow produces?

This boils down to the very simple question: Is it legal or illegal to

make and enforce contracts in the State of Xxxxxx?

> Is it legal for a family to make their own food choices?

And this boils down to the question: Is it child abuse or not to prepare

food for one's family in the way one sees fit? (And if it child abuse,

then the case should be heard in a Family Law court, not here...)

If you allow yourself to be taken into court on the issue of raw milk

(some weird practice promoted by some weird cult), you lose because you

are nobody, but if you force the issue onto a higher level, you pick up

huge supporters who see their own ox being gored.

The Santerians would have lost their case to continue ritual sacrifice of

their animals in the case of " Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. Hialeah "

if it had just been about a tiny religion practiced mostly in the

Caribbean, but by widening the issue to one of the general freedom to

practice one's religion, they got a huge amount of help from outside.

Tom