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You Can’t Make Me Shoot My Pigs – Stand Up Against Unlawful Orders Now, It Could Be You Next

April 2, 2013 16 Comments

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Bakers Jill & Mark

Mark & Jill Baker own their 80 acre farm, Bakers Green Acres, in Northern Michigan, only about an hour North from where we are near Grand Rapids.  They have 8 kids and raise beef, pork, chicken, and also grow some field crops.  When Mark retired from the U.S. Air Force, they moved to Michigan so they could farm.

I'm sure they never saw this coming…

No one can really imagine that this happens here, not here in America.

In December 2011 they were informed by one of the Chefs who buys their pork (they weren't even notified directly!) that their pigs were now considered illegal.  Mangalitsa pigs, a world renowned class of swine known for rich, fat, beautiful, red meat were now classified as feral.  It didn't matter that they were raised since babies right on their farm and kept contained on their property.  Because they had curly tails (or straight tails), curly ears (or straight ears) these and other characteristics make them ‘feral'.

warrantThere was a bigger reason for all of this, but at the time they still had no idea.  They've gotten a huge education in a way they certainly never wanted over these past 15 months, and below is some of that saga…

First, have you seen my earlier posts on this story:

  • Where oh where has common sense gone?  Communism anyone?
  • Ticked off Tuesday – STILL no resolution for the Baker family
  • Be ready for the men with guns.  How to prepare for a raid (This one was about a different story, but read it so you'll know what to do if it's you or your farmer!)

Watch the video (or catch the high points below):  

Video plays after the ad. Turn up your speakers, I didn't know I was going to videotape all of this or I'd have asked him to use my mic!

Highpoints:

  • “They wanted me to shoot my own animals and I said, ‘I will not carry out this order.'  I refused that order because it is an absolute unlawful order.”
  • “We got word that they were going to raid my farm.  I told them, ‘I'll be here waiting for you.' I didn't say that I'd be armed or anything like that. They didn't come.”
  • “They are just thugs.  With most cases there is no resistance, if you show a little resistance, they don't know what to do, they're so used to everyone doing whatever they say.”
  • “They'll say (in farm raids), ‘You dump out the milk' and so the people will go and dump it.  Instead they should say to them, ‘You want it dumped, YOU go and dump it.'”
  • “There's something going on in the state of Michigan and I'm not sure what it is.  I served with men from every state in the Union and young men from your state are some of the most ferocious warriors that walk this planet, but when I come to your state, they're completely afraid of your government and I really don't even understand why.”
  • “Your government is not even that bright.  But you have to resist them.”
  • farmageddon_movie“You should be OUTRAGED about what you just saw.” (Everyone had just watched Farmageddon by filmmaker Kristin Canty.  Buy Farmageddon or Watch Farmageddon with a 48 hour rental.)
  • “If I assure them that I will not sell my piglets in the spring, then I am assuring them that I will be bankrupt…and that's what they hope, to get this done.”
  • Instead Mark has been making YouTube videos to stay in the public eye.
  • “Don't expect this to make sense, it's all about marketshare and big Ag.  They want to produce ALL the pigs that you can possibly buy.”
  • Question:  Can you get your Congressman to help?  “You can cry on their shoulder…  I testified here in Lansing and got an eye-full of how that works.  It's a long story… but it's not justice.”
  • “It's not just me, Mark, standing up here.  It's YOU.  Because you're an extension of me, and if they knock me down, you need to be behind me to stand up and carry this flag into the goal.  This has pulled us through the mud…  We need your help.  Social media is HUGE.  I need media support but that's been real difficult, they control the national media…  On both sides of the fence, too, it's absolutely a waste of time to politicize food issues because I think they're all working on the same side.  Share Bakers Green Acres' name so that name is like a rash, it'll keep me and my family safe.  WHEN we win this one it'll give us a big stick.”
  • “Incidentally, in deposition we found out that the Michigan Pork Producers called the meeting and said we must call every pig feral with a straight tail or curly tail and the only exemption they gave was pigs in confinement, they call that a ‘domestic hog production' whereas my hog production, outside, on pasture, is not best.”
  • “These people are making war on us.  They're fooling with your food right now and you need to tell them where to go.”
  • “Here are my solutions:  (1)  You have to attack this at its lowest local level.  We went to the township and said, ‘You need to consider an ordinance that makes it legal to do this in this town', and if they did it would set up a boundary around us where we would be safe.”
  • (2) “What is Big Ag worried about?  They're worried about the marketshare you'll take from them whenever you guys take over farming from them.  ‘Oooh, we don't want you making cheese or fooling around with milk, you could poison yourselves!'  Every time you do some sort of farming operation, you're taking calories away and feeding yourself.  So we have to put more farmers out on the ground, we need a stampede of farmers!”  So Mark & Jill are now offering the program, Anyone Can Farm.  Here's more info from the Anyone Can Farm site:  When Mark became embroiled in a dispute with the State of Michigan over whether or not the pigs he’d raised since birth were “feral,” he looked for a positive outlet for the negative energy.  People have come to Baker’s Green Acres for years for top quality chicken, pork, beef, and eggs.  Along the way, many people also came to find out how to raise their own healthy meats and vegetables.   Mark realized that teaching people to raise their own nutrient dense, nourishing food was the best way to give back to everyone the good that the farm and so many generous people had given to him and his family.

Bakers Green AcresHere's How to HELP and take a stand NOW before it's you or me next!

  • Help them reach their goal to get Anyone Can Farm up and going!!!  Click here to help!!
  • Keep up on all the latest at their Bakers Green Acres blog.
  • Visit the Bakers Green Acres YouTube channel and tell your friends!
  • Join the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund – they are on the front line to help our farmers when the crap comes down.
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Comments

  1. Chantal says

    July 11, 2013 at 3:10 PM

    Check out republicfortheunitedstates.org. Note, it’s not ‘republic of’ but ‘republic for’. It’s a government set up by people who believe the current federal U.S. government is an unlawful corporate democracy. I found out about it by reading about a state senate candidate in Iowa who dropped out of the current system in order to run in that one.

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  2. Jeanmarie says

    April 5, 2013 at 3:26 AM

    Thanks for continuing to give this story publicity, Kelly. I have such respect for the Bakers.

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  3. Kris Unger says

    April 4, 2013 at 9:44 AM

    One great way we can support Mark and his family is to send him donations. They have to have money to pay the bills, I know we are are all tight and cash short, but Mark is taking a stand for ALL of us and we need to support him financially. I would think that if we started calling our representatives on a weekly basis, they might finally get off their highly paid butts and do their job. Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Go Mark Go!

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  4. Leah G says

    April 3, 2013 at 4:35 PM

    As a small farmer and American I say this. We the people have forgotten that we are the govt. WE govern ourselves. The people we have chosen to represent ourselves are no longer upholding our beliefs. We must take a stand and take our beautiful country back not just for us but for our children and future generations. We have God given rights that have been taken and given to Monsanto and the likes. We far out number the bad and the bad will ONLY stop when we force it to.

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  5. Commenter via Facebook says

    April 2, 2013 at 6:55 PM

    I’m willing if Mark gives the “go” on this!

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  6. Commenter via Facebook says

    April 2, 2013 at 4:13 PM

    It is unfathomable that our state government is this corrupt. We MUST stand behind this family farm. When they finally get their day in court, we must fill the entire courtroom, court house, line the sidewalks and streets. Our government must SEE that we will not back down, will not submit to tyranny! Perhaps we should march on the state capital NOW, since they are delaying the court date in hopes of literally starving the Bakers out.

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  7. Commenter via Facebook says

    April 2, 2013 at 2:45 PM

    We should ALL be very concerned about our governments ever growing control over our food, water, and energy! Because they are not very good stewards of our planet or really us. Their stewardship is to their pocketbooks and the puppeteers that line them. IMHO

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  8. Commenter via Facebook says

    April 2, 2013 at 2:16 PM

    You control the food you control the people!

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  9. Kathy Atkinson says

    April 2, 2013 at 1:53 PM

    According to the Michigan DNR website, “The Invasive Species Order prohibits a particular species, Sus scrofa Linnaeus, commonly known as Russian boars, Eurasian wild boars, or razorbacks.”

    Since I’m not familiar with pig species, does this species include heritage breed pigs?

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  10. PJ says

    April 2, 2013 at 1:42 PM

    Really hope that he wins, and wins big, before we move. We will be only a couple hours from their farm, and [igs are on our agenda.

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  11. Commenter via Facebook says

    April 2, 2013 at 1:41 PM

    NO, they can do their own dirty work

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    • KitchenKop says

      April 2, 2013 at 6:55 PM

      FYI – this comment was in reply to my Facebook question: “What would you do if they asked you to shoot your own pigs?”

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  12. Commenter via Facebook says

    April 2, 2013 at 1:41 PM

    I would have stood up too, and will if and when it comes to that.

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  13. Linda says

    April 2, 2013 at 9:14 AM

    I can’t stand the fact that our government is not there for us. How many petitions do we send to our senators who just keep ignoring us? Of course it’s all about the money.

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  14. Elaine says

    April 2, 2013 at 6:25 AM

    I just watched that whole video and it’s very, very sad. We are slowly having our rights taken away in this country. The ONLY recourse we have is to educate people as to what is happening. Most people I know don’t even have an inkling about any of this. The informed people need to continually patronize farmers – buy from farmers you know. Buy from farmers…and keep buying from farmers.

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  15. Mali Korsten says

    April 2, 2013 at 4:24 AM

    Big Ag just wants a monopoly on the nation’s entire food supply. In the meantime, honest and hardworking farmers are being robbed of their livelihood and made out to be “dangerous” and irresponsible. So very, very sad.

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