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Latest government action against Upper Leacock farmer Amos Miller prompts floods of donations — again
DAN NEPHIN | Staff Writer
More legal problems for farmer Amos Miller mean more money, too.
A day after state officials removed edible products from Miller’s Upper Leacock Township farm based on reports linking them to E. coli infections, over 800 people had given more than $56,000 to an online site raising funds for Miller.
One anonymous donor gave $3,000. Several gave $1,000 or more.
The GiveSendGo campaign was created by Chris Hume, managing editor of The Lancaster Patriot, a website offering a mix of local news and Christian nationalist commentary.
The solicitation for donations said the detaining order was “effectively ending his business until further notice. As Amos fights this injustice, he needs to keep paying his employees and supporting the small farms that rely on Amos to sell their natural products.”
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said in a statement that it searched Miller’s farm for “illegal raw milk and raw milk products, including eggnog.” The statement also said Miller has never licensed his retail operation.
Raw milk can be sold in the state only with a permit from the Agriculture Department. Miller does not have a permit to sell raw milk, the department said.
One of the people sickened with a strain of E. coli drank eggnog and the other either consumed raw milk or a “milk product,” according to the department.
E. coli bacteria almost always originate in feces.
The Shiga toxin-producing E. coli the department said had been linked to Miller’s farm can cause stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In some cases, it also can cause kidney damage and death.
Miller did not respond to a message left at his phone number seeking comment.
In a statement shared on The GiveSendGo campaign site, his attorney, Robert Barnes, referred to the search as a raid and called it lawless.
Barnes, of Los Angeles, wrote that the Agriculture Department “unlawfully obtained a search warrant, based on materially false statements in an affidavit by a high-ranking state official in an agency with a known grievance against independent farmers like Amos, and, after the raid and finding no evidence of wrongdoing, then illegally ordered detained every item of food in one of Amos Miller’s coolers, including buffalo meat not even subject to federal regulation.
“Despite the constant harassment,” Barnes said, “Amos will continue to do all he legally can to provide the food his members deeply need. Amos thanks you for your continued support at this critical time for food freedom in America.”
Barnes represented Miller in a previous case in which he and the U.S. government were in a standoff over his compliance with federal food safety rules and failure to pay assessed fines. At one point, Miller refused to follow through on previous agreements reached under a federal judge’s supervision. But the parties resolved the dispute by early 2023, and the federal court docket for Miller's case shows it was closed in August.
Miller paid fines and costs of about $85,000 related to that case.
In December 2022, LNP | LancasterOnline had identified six campaigns that had raised more than a half-million dollars for Miller. Two of those sites were continuing to receive new donations, even though they had been updated with a link to the latest site.
Miller came to the attention of federal authorities in 2016, when the Food and Drug Administration said it identified listeria in samples of Miller’s raw milk and found it to be genetically similar to the bacteria in two people who developed listeriosis — one of whom died — after consuming raw milk.
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