From Stark:
We’re at the point in the legislative session in which bills die by the dozen, because they have failed to move out of their house of origin by last week’s deadline.
Listed among the dead is SB 5648, sponsored by Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-40th. Ranker’s bill would have exempted small-scale milk producers from the regulations imposed by RCW 15.36.
Ranker’s dead bill defined “small scale” as no more than two cows, nine sheep, or nine goats, and exempted such mini-producers only if they do not advertise their milk for sale. It sounds as though the bill was meant to enable hobbyists to sell a little milk to friends and neighbors without being in violation of state law.
How much hobby milk does it take to sicken a drinker?
Why are two cows that aren’t inspected safer to drink from than 200 cows that are?
If you don’t advertise your milk and it makes somebody sick,
is there anyone who need care?
Good that this addendum died a quick death.