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Old 05/14/08, 12:22 PM
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Raw Milk sales...here's a site with every state's laws.

http://www.realmilk.com/milk-laws-5.html

It's legal in Texas...if I just knew how to find a farmer here locally that has milk for sale :-(

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Old 05/14/08, 01:39 PM
 
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In Texas, you can sell eggs but you can't grade them or size them without a permit. You have to have your name and address on the carton.

Live plants are regulated. Can't remember the specifics.

Raw milk has to be sold from the dairy only and you have to have a Grade A Raw Milk dairy license.

You have to have a license to sell frozen desserts.

You have to have a license for selling and making alcohol - $75 for wine and nearly $1000 for beer if I remember correctly.

Perishable prepared foods have to be made in a commercial kitchen.

There are some other ones, but I don't remember them all.
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Old 05/14/08, 04:15 PM
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I've heard it's illegal to sell peanuts. Anyone know if that's true?
Its illegal to grow more than a specified number of peanut plants here in Alabama without a permit and you can only grow them for personal use, not for sale. I think a gardener is allowed to grow 10 or 20 plants legally.
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Old 05/14/08, 09:00 PM
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When did they enact that law Shrek...when I was a kid (many years ago) we always planted at LEAST an acre of peanuts. They were for personal use, though some were given away to friends and relatives.
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Old 05/15/08, 08:08 AM
 
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No....it's not bumpus! where do you come up with this stuff
A lot depends on where you're from. Here, everything you've referenced is in fact illegal.

Not only illegal, but they're actively targeting it. Around here you should be *very* carefull with a customer who wants to buy a goat or such, and just have you help them a bit on butchering it. I had one who I recognized try it on me with a goose last fall. Wanted to pay a whole lot for a goose and have me through in a free (his winks and nods) butchering. Luckily, I happened to know who he worked for.
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I must agree check with your state. In the state of Oregon, I asked for the rules on selling eggs, got a booklet on the rules of selling. Yes I can sell my eggs to the puplic, but I'm not allowed to advertise my eggs for sale. As for poultry, hogs, goats, not unless they go though an appoved processing operation. That was another 6 booklets sent to me, I need a lawyer just to understand the booklets. Then check with your Insurance company. I was amazed at the cost of a policy to cover, selling anything off my farm, $5,000.00+ a year. Not cost effective here.

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Old 05/15/08, 07:49 PM
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Old 05/15/08, 08:11 PM
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Wow! What a wonderful government we have allowed to take away our freedom...
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Old 05/15/08, 08:20 PM
 
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Freaking nuts! This is why there is no good food in America (unless you grow your own, of course!). All these rules are in place so it's too hard for small farms to make a meager living selling good food... and the big guns get rich. Capitalism my -----.
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