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40 THE RURAL VOICE
argument in April 1997 whcn
throwing out a township bylaw that
would have kept an Old Order
resident from keeping a horse in thc
hamlet of Newton.
"I think the court would see farm -
separated cream as a coercive
policy," Bennett says.
For the Amish, however, the
courts arc, something to be used
only when you are defending
yourself, as in the case of the charge
brought against the Newton resident.
To takc a challenge to the courts
would be seen as too aggressive to
people whose code is to be "obedient
to authority", says Bcnnctt. That
passivism has been takcn advantage
of, he says.
Dcspitc all the difficulties
surrounding the farm -separated
cream business, Christian Ropp
wants to stay in the business. His
new barn was built with a pipeline
milking system that delivers the milk
directly to the separator. The skim
milk has real value. After thc barn
burned in 1997, he loaned his cows
and quota to a neighbour so it would
be filled for the year. He had to turn
around and buy milk replacer for the
replacement calves he was growing
and found it very expensive. As well,
on small calf wasn't doing well on
the replacer and thc vet finally told
him to get some milk from the
neighbour and feed it to the calf. The
calf did better on thc milk diet.
There arc three creameries left in
the province that take farm separated
cream, one in northern Ontario, one
in Stirling in eastern Ontario and one
in Alliston which takes the cream
from western Ontario producers.
O'Neill says there's another specialty
cheese maker, located right near
some of the Old Order communities,
who would be interested in getting a
supply of farm -separated cream.
"There is a market for our
product," says Ropp who claims he's
been told by processors that farm
separated cream is a far better value
than skim -off from large milk -
processing operations.
Touring his barn Ropp shows
pride and affection for his rare polled
milking Shorthorn herd.
"I'm not ready to quit shipping
cream yet," he says with
determination.0