Our family has really enjoyed the book Heinrich to Henry by a local author named Marie Kramer as told by Henry Cramer. This is a true story about a German who immigrated to America after World War 2. I have felt very led to share this quote from the book. “We in America enjoy unparalleled freedoms. People here complain that the governments is slowly eroding these freedoms. It is not true. The people, rather, are giving away their freedoms by taking hand-outs from the government. By similar methods, Hitler bought the freedom away from his people. The communists continue to be oppressive. They take everything from everyone and promise each a fair share in the redistribution. But it doesn’t happen that way, and people lose their incentive to work if they can’t enjoy the fruits of their labor.”

When I contacted our local senator requesting more freedom for us meat providers that were having trouble getting our animals into a USDA processing plant, I received this predesignated reply generated by a software program about how the government had given money to all these different needs. I wish I could share the email, but I cleaned out my email and it must have been trashed. Since you can’t reply to these emails, I started the process a few more times trying to explain that we were not asking for a handout, we were simply asking for freedom to sell our product in a way that we know is equally safe. We believe that many of the rules in place are not about food safety, but about certain groups controlling the market. I didn’t hear back, but I have been diligently praying and trying to be a nuisance to our representatives, and thankfully, I’m not the only one. Tomorrow I will share some exciting news that I heard yesterday. Imagine the possibilities if we actually had a free market where two consenting, informed adults could trade? Do you believe we have a free market?