Morningland Dairy Raw Milk Cheese

January 25, 2014

Today marks the 1st anniversary of the day that the state of Missouri stole and destroyed all of our cheese!  36,420 pounds of unpasteurized, healthful cheese, embargoed for nearly 2-1/2 years and then carelessly destroyed by an out-of-control bureaucracy and their "just-doing-my-job" lackeys.  Here is the video that shows just how careless of the needs of real people and how controlling the government has become: 

On May 19th of 2012, at a fundraiser for Farm-To-Consumer-Legal-Defense-Fund, we had the opportunity (and duty!) to share our farm raid story and to talk about some of the consequences of the tyrannical actions of the FDA and Missouri Milk Board against Morningland Dairy, despite the fact that no illness or complaint has ever come about in our 30 years of making raw milk cheese, and despite our willingness to get to the truth about our cheese. Joseph ...

In our 30 yrs. of Morningland Dairy production there have been no complaints or reports of illness connected with eating our raw milk cheeses, yet in August of 2010 the FDA and Missouri authorities, using improperly handled and very questionable test results from California, made us recall all cheese sold in 2010, embargoed all our remaining cheese, refused to properly test our cheese, denied us a jury trial, judged us - without any proof - to have an unsanitary plant and sick animals, ordere...

Dear Customers and Friends,

       Morningland’s battle with the Missouri State Milk Board and the Missouri Attorney General’s office (who represents the milk board) continues.

       On January 11th and 12th of this year, Morningland went to court in West Plains, Missouri. We were there for 10 hours each...

Dear Customers and Friends,

To keep you up to date with what is going on with Morningland, we are sharing an article written and featured on the Uncheese Party site.  Thank you for your continued prayers, patience, and support, which is greatly appreciated by us all.  Joseph, Denise, Jedadiah, and the Morningland families

"Stay of Execution on Cheese is Granted!

On February 23, 2011, Judge Dunlap of Howell Co., Missouri Court ruled against Morningland, despite expert testimony that the test results of Morningland's cheese did not indicate a presence of anything harmful to humans.  Ignoring the expert testimony, the judge also stated, "the court must... disregard the absence of sickness among the consumers of defendant's cheeses."

All of Morningland's cheese has been ordered to be destroyed, Morningland has...

Last week we sent the following to the Howell County Court and to the Missouri Attorney General's office:

REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE

Comes now, Defendants Joseph and Denise Dixon, with a request for judicial notice of the following item, to wit:

(1) There are several things of which courts are required to take judicial notice, with one being all State and Federal laws. We wish to point specifically to Public Law 97-280, which wa...

Dear Morningland Friends & Customers,

We apologize for the long delay in adding to this blog.  We have felt unsure of what to add as the preparations for court have been made.

We are scheduled to be in court on January 11th and 12th.  The place:  Howell County Courthouse, 101 Courthouse (downtown on the Square), West Plains, Missouri, 65775.

On Friday afternoon, the judge for our case bowed out and another judge w...

Morningland Dairy has received a letter from the FDA, stating that Morningland Dairy's cheese poses "an acute, life-threatening hazard to health”, and the Missouri Milk Board sent a letter to Morningland Dairy, stating that “No administrative regulations allow the appeal of the State Milk Board’s administrative order…”  Here is the complete a...

Folks have been asking how to send a donation to help Morningland Dairy with legal costs and/or just keeping afloat as we go through this time of not being able to make or ship cheese. To send a donation, go to the Un-Cheese Party, which was launched by friends who, too, are concerned for the very real threat to peoples' ability to choose their own food, and who want to help.

From all of us at Morningland Dairy, ̶...