It’s been a while since I’ve put up a “Save Farm Freedom Friday” post, but with all the rotten news on how many of our beloved farmers are being treated, I could easily do this more often. This is a way to highlight the good going on around us on family farms and to bring awareness about some of the threats to our food freedoms, too.
Are you fed up with the injustices happening on small family farms, where good people are trying to raise food to nourish us?
Are they selling drugs? Are they involved in some heinous crimes? Nope. They are farmers, and many are raising food the way it has been done for thousands of years.
Some are being punished severely for it.
PLEASE JOIN US IN THIS FIGHT!
- If you don’t have a blog, Facebook and Tweet this post to raise awareness!
- Bloggers, write a post on this and link up below (and share a link on your blog back to this post so others can find us and join in, too) so we can show how we are STANDING TOGETHER to help our farmers. If possible, use these bolded keywords and tags in your post so we can bomb Google: “Stop FDA Tyranny Against Dairy Farms“, “Save Family Farms”, “Farm Raids”, “Farm Freedom”, and “Save Farm Freedom”.
You also may want to embed the trailer for the Farmageddon film. (See my post yesterday from filmmaker Kristin Canty on how YOU can help spread the word about this movie!)- Help us RAISE MONEY for the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, who are such a source of hope for these farmers. I am proud to be a member.
If you have a post on farming or food freedom that you can share, please link up below!
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Ahh… Yes, Kelly! I know a pastured egg farmer who said that he and so many small farmers could eventually lose their jobs if the FDA’s regulations and restrictions get more intense! I’m certainly not buying junk (shouldn’t be labeled as food) from confinement operations. If I had to, I’ll raise a cow and some chickens in my own backyard. I just don’t know how to get around the city laws to do this, lol. Who cares… I’ll just have to tell them that a girl’s got to eat!
In truth, we don’t live in a free country anymore. My local, pastured egg farmer even told me that a man got fined for collecting rain water… Yay, rain water!!! The government officials in a certain state assessed that the rain water wasn’t his property… Insane, isn’t it? People wake up!!! How can they say that rain water is their own property, and not ours too? This is the same situation as the strict regulations in the S. 510 Senate Bill that our federal government tried to pass last year to forbid us from growing our own food and saving seed. Well, they passed it; however, it is less strict. We are still able to grow our own food and save seed FOR NOW. God only knows what will happen in the near future.
People, it is time for a new revolution to stop BIG government from controlling what foods and drinks we consume. Better yet, it is time for us to fight for our constitutional rights that have been so badly manipulated by some of the people in congress. The question is, when shall we begin?
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Every generation needs a new revolution. God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government,” Thomas Jefferson.
………it sure is difficult to eat real food nowadays! Looking forward to a real tomato from my garden!!!
We do have to find a way to make our senators listen to us. I live in Virginia. This state encourages using rain barrels. I’m glad but where my mother lives they tax everyone who doesn’t have one! She is in her 80′s and doesn’t garden. She does not need one, but she has to pay a tax for not having one.
One of our senators, who was our governor, said he encourages organic farmers, yet he voted for HB S-510.
Many senators who supported organic farming in the past voted for S510, even though that bill could result in the destruction of organic farming by the FDA. The power of the large corporations over congress is immense, and they always seem to get what they want.
My 60 posts on Farm Reg Enforcement actions incl Amish and Amish-like http://wholefoodusa.wordpress.com/category/2-family-farm-report-enforcement-and-regulatory-actions/
Augie, this is awesome! Thank you so much for exposing this persecution.
Ron Paul 2012
Hi there,
I have a question about your site, would you mind emailing me back @ kthomas@primroseschools.com?
Thanks,
Kathleen
I didn’t know about you website to help preserve our freedom to eat what we want. We raised grass-fed beef for 7 years and loved it. Now that we have moved off that farm it is being maintained in its organic state and used for grass-fed cattle continues!! It is sustainable!!
Thanks for letting me share.
I am happy to have found your blog. We raise Certified Organic 100% Grass Fed Beef. My family has lived & raised livestock on the same Ranch since 1918. It is more & more difficult to deal with regulations and encroaching development. We recently placed our Ranch into a Conservation Easement to assure wildlife have a place to live; true Sustainability!
Nick Ranch Gourmet Beef
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