In the raw: contraband milk.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Brief article

IN APRIL police hauled off Mark Nolt in handcuffs for being a dairy deviant. Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court cited the Mennonite farmer for contempt after he ignored a 2007 injunction prohibiting him from selling raw milk and cheese.

The peddling of unorthodox dairy products is legal in Pennsylvania, but it requires a permit. Nolt let his license expire in a gesture of protest, telling the Cumberland County Sentinel that "the Constitution clearly spells out we have the right [to] do private business."

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The arresting officers were joined by several representatives of the state Department of Agriculture. The assembled...