WHY WE NEED FOOD EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

This is our government food safety at work.  Read and weep.

From Jen Gamerdinger of Bear Creek Acres Dairy in northeastern Iowa…

Last night (Monday)just before 6pm, there was a knock on my door. Standing outside was a sheriff deputy. He had come to serve an arrest warrant on me; me, a wife, a mother to 6 children, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a farmer, etc. I was in utter disbelief! After I was arrested, they also arrested dad.

How did this all start? It all began when we saw our food freedom slipping away.

At one time, we were an LLC. We had all of the licenses and permits that we thought we were required to have to operate.
1. We had a milking permit that allowed us to milk our own cows.
2. We had a milk hauler license so we could legally sample our own milk in order to test it for antibiotics before we made it into cheese(even though we have been an organic farm for over 20 years and don’t even have antibiotics anywhere on the premises.)
3. We had a license to test our milk for antibiotics before we could make it into cheese. (Again no antibiotics are used on our farm.)
4. We had a manufacturing permit in order to make cheese from our own milk.
5. Our milking facilities were inspected every 5 months.
6. Our cheese room was inspected every 3 months.
7. Our cheese was sampled by the state every month.
8. Our pasteurization equipment was tested and inspected every 6 months.
9. We had a license for a scale so the weight of the cheese packages were “accurate”.
10. We had a license for a certified kitchen, which was also inspected yearly.
11. We tried to get a license for canning meat. Mom took all of their training. We bought all the equipment. The certified kitchen that we had a license for was built for this purpose. In the end, a license to can meat was unobtainable.

When we talked to a retired canning inspector about how to finally get this license, he told us, we will never get it because they won’t issue them for anyone anymore. So for a few years, we hired one of the only 2 people in the entire state of Iowa to can our beef for us, so we could resell it to customers.

We jumped through a lot of hoops because we thought it was the only way to operate.

The final straw for me was when the milk inspector informed me that we were required to register our manufacturing plant(the cheese room) with the FDA. That registration would give the federal government permission to come to our farm at any time for any reason. Their example was that if there was a terrorist attack, food plants would potentially need to be shut down and they wanted a list of all of them no matter how small they were.

NO THANK YOU!

I asked our inspector to provide the law that said we were required to register with the FDA. She provided me with a link, from which I quickly found that our operation was exempt from such registration. She then referred me to her superior, who we will call J. J then informed me that we were indeed “required” to register with the federal government, so I asked him to provide the law that said we were required. He then sent me 60 pages of information of why we were required to register. After reading through everything he sent me, I started to think that we actually would have to register with the FDA until I noticed that at the top of each page were the words ”Contains Nonbinding Recommendations” not mandatory regulations. I brought this to J’s attention. Shortly after this, raw milk became legal in Iowa. I did not hear from J about this issue again.

Fast forward a year. I began learning about Private Ministerial/Membership Associations.

A PMA is a private ministerial/membership association where products are not available to the general public, but only to private members. It is not a corporation or an LLC, but an unincorporated association. A PMA has Constitutional protection from both State and Federal Government. It is lawfully recognized and operates in the private realm outside of governmental authority.

Our purpose is to provide the highest quality food according to God’s standards for our family and yours! Our founding fathers knew and understood our natural rights. The Constitution guarantees those rights, and that has never changed. However, over time, the government has engaged in massive fraudulent business. We can not continue to support a government that has gone haywire.

We are NOT anti-government, but we ARE anti-corrupt government.

A PMA operates in the private domain which is completely separate from the public domain where the government enforces statutory rules and regulations such as mandatory animal vaccines and chemical processing. These regulations do not apply in the private domain.

At one time we believed that the LLC and all of the licenses and permits that we had were the only way for us to operate. We didn’t realize that there was another lawful way, a better way.

In the summer of 2024, I revoked ALL of our permits and licenses. Every agency but one ignored me. Guess who I heard from? J. J and I sent letters back and forth a couple of times. In the end I politely declined his offer to chat on the phone.

Within a few weeks, a man, we will call him B, called my cell phone and told me he had tried our canned beef at a friend's house and now he wanted some for himself. We had a conversation on the phone that day about our PMA.

The day he stopped out, I put an agreement in his hand and let him know that only members could have our products, so if he returned it would need to be signed. My father was not present the first time B visited our farm.
On January 22, 2025 the same man visited our farm again. I was not there this time, but my dad was. B told my dad that he had spoken to me, and since I had previously given him an application and explained it to him, my dad reasonably believed that he was a member of our association. He was not. He purposely deceived us knowing full well that only members were allowed access to our farm products. It was a covert operation to entrap us by trickery, misleading, and strategic planning and tactics. We now know that he was sent by J as an undercover agent because the last letter that I sent to J was in the search warrant paperwork. It is clear to me that we are being targeted and retaliated against because of our choice for food freedom.

We have decided that we will NOT back down. They are trying to intimidate us and are dangling some serious prison time over our heads. They are trying to make an example out of us and they are not playing nice. Even so, we are confident that we have been called to take a stand against this government overreach.

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