Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbours try to kill you and take the cows. You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. The government bans you from milking or killing them. The government takes them and denies they ever existed.
Milk is banned.
You got to have some of this milk. You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons. One has actually read the constitution, believes in it, and has some really good ideas about government.