Welcome!

Are you concerned with:

A consumer's right to consume non-toxic products directly from the farm (e.g. raw milk)?
Protecting small & medium-size farmers and ranchers from the threats of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) or other misguided governmental actions?
The increasing consolidation of our food supply into the hands of a few large, multinational corporations who squander resources to ship foods from as far away as China?
The infiltration of genetically modified plants and animals in our food supplies?

Those involved in developing the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) are concerned as well. We have many different backgrounds, many different areas of expertise. Some of us have been members of the farming community for our entire lives; others have taken an interest in our local farms because of the many health benefits we have seen from consuming these foods. We are diverse but unified in purpose.

The FTCLDF provides affordable legal counsel to farmers and consumers in need, it will make the needs of the small farmer and the concerned consumer known to our government, and it will promote our shared vision: Sustainable farming and direct farm-to-consumer transactions.

Won't you help?

GREAT writings about our cases by David Gumpert

GREAT writings about our cases by David Gumpert

NEWS

MAY 15 - LEGAL DEFENSE FUND MOVES TO STOP ANIMAL ID PROGRAM; FILES INTENT TO SUE USDA AND MICHIGAN DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE

mAY 13 - Raw Deal for Raw Milk

May 5 - Farmer fined $4,000 for dealing raw milk

May 3 - RAW MILK SITUATION IN PENNSYLVANIA - UPDATE AND ACTION ALERT

May 2 - Regulators rue raw milk vogue -- baltimoresun.com

May 1 - Rally in Defense of Mark Nolt

May 1 - Raw milk lovers upset over Amish arrest

May 1 - Mark Nolt Farm Raided – Fox 43 Newscast

May 1 - Farmer, state government square off about 'raw' milk

April 28 - PA - PDA Raids Nature’s Sunlight Farm; Mark Nolt Arrested

April 27 - Rodale: Farming is the cure for global warming

April 26 - A Mennonite Farmer is Hauled Away

April 25 - IMPORTANT RAW MILK UPDATE

APR 19 - Farm Fresh Milk — Assuring Safety and Consumer Choice — Report of the April 15th Senate Hearing

APR 18 - USDA IMPLEMENTS KEY STRATEGY FROM NATIONAL ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM BUSINESS PLAN

APR 18 - UNESCO Ag Report Encourages Paradigm Shift to Local and Sustainable Farming

APR 17 - JOEL SALATIN TO SPEAK TO HOUSE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM REGARDING MEAT INDUSTRY

APR 14 - 24 Hour Count Down to Raw Milk Destiny

APR 11 - Raw Milk Needs YOUR Help - April 15, 2008

APR 10 - You Can't Vaccinate Your Way to Health

APR 9 - Review of State Raw Milk Legislation 2008

APR 8 - Top health issues of 2008 | Health & Fitness | Reuters

APR 3 - Breaking News on Raw Milk Grand Jury Probe!

APR 2 - Dairy Says FDA Harassed Workers | Lancaster Farming

MAR 31 - Fresh Farm Milk: Assuring Safety and Consumer Choice

MAR 31 - Victory against New York's Department of Agriculture and Markets

MAR 24 - Got Raw Milk? by David Gumpert

MAR 20 - HUGE VICTORY IN CALIFORNIA

MAR 17 - VDACS TO VOTE ON "NAIS" SCRAPIE REGS

MAR 17 - Call your Senator today to fight NAIS in Kentucky!

MAR 17 - A friend of yours highly recommends you read this health article

MAR 7 - VICTORY at Florida Farmers Market - Stop Sale of Pet Food Lifted

MAR 6 - USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program

MAR 6 - Milk Wars

MAR 6 - More dairies going raw, citing benefits of unpasteurized milk - The Boston Globe

MAR 4 - National Small Farm Lobby Day and Legislative Reception

FEB 27 - URGENT UPDATE - NY Change of location for the contempt hearing for Meadowsweet Dairy, Thursday, February 28th at 3:30 p.m.

FEB 26 - Farm Food Voices DC 2008 – March 5, 2008. Invite your legislator to eat real farm fresh food.

FEB 25 - Meadowsweet Dairy Update

FEB 14 - Martha Stewart promotes raw milk from local dairy.

FEB 05 - Action Alert – VA - NAIS AND HOME KITCHEN BILL

FEB 4 - USDA Census

JAN 31--Missouri - HB 1901

JAN 29--AB1735 & AB1604 Update

JAN 28--AB1735 & AB1604 Update

JAN 10--Action Alert: Missouri Raw Milk Bill

DEC 27--AB1735 Update

Jake Zook's farm

A small but important victory - AB 1735 Temporary Restraining Order. Gary Cox, General Counsel FTCLDF, Ron Garthwaite, owner of Claravale Dairy, and Collette Cassidy, Claravale Dairy, Rusty Areias ( ex-assemblyman ), Mark McAfee founder OPDC, and Ken Gorman with Lombardi and Gilles.

Calf on pasture at Jake Zook's farm

His hard work paid off…. Gary Cox, General Counsel for the LDF after the judge granted the Temporary Restraining Order for AB1735 in California.

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