Laughs at the Library

Here is an idea for some cheap fun, next time you're feeling particular rowdy. Don your best 90s grunge outfit, or maybe your favorite vampire outfit, or a black leather trenchcoat, and go to your public library. Approach the help desk, and ask them for a copy of "Everything I want to do is Illegal". Better yet, wear your faux Bob Marley dreadlocks, and tell the librarian that this is an "agriculture book".
Most likely you will be given a hairy eyeball, and told that they do not stock that title. However, if you're really lucky, you might be shown to the location of the book.
The title in question is a rather entertaining read by Joel Salatin, which discusses his adventures running a 100 acre farm in the Shenandoah Valley down in VA. The illegal acts he wants to perform are daredevil antics like, selling unwashed eggs, raw milk, selling his home butchered beef, and making and selling sausages that are made with organ meat mixed with regular ground meat. He doesn't want to do this in secret, or unsuspecting consumers, but rather to people that for one reason or another would like to have access to such things.
For those of you who might not be familiar with why someone might want to buy raw milk (it wouldn't be illegal if it was safe, right?), I for one have found that raw milk makes a better cheese, and for some reason does not exacerbate eczema in myself, as well as my brother and his two little girls. Sadly, living in MD I have easier access to street drugs, than to raw dairy.
The book is rather enlightening to the restrictions in our food systems today. At times it does get a bit preachy, but it's kind of endearing to see someone so passionate about the subject.
My local library does not carry this title, but they did have another title, "Folk This Ain't Normal" which I will be reading with great gusto over the next few weeks!