• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund

Protecting, defending, and broadening the rights and viability of independent farmers, artisanal food producers, and their consumers.

  • Membership
    • Member Login
    • Join
    • Renew
    • Testimonials
  • Giving
  • About
    • About Us
    • Board of Directors
    • Team
    • Work With Us
  • News
    • News
    • Events
  • Action Alerts
  • Resources
  • Contact Us

Episode 16: Protecting Local Foods

By Michelle Ray | April 24, 2014

Podcast with guest host Michelle Ray

Episode 16 of the Food Rights Hour podcast is about protecting local foods. During this episode, our guest host, Michelle Ray, speaks with traditional foods teaching chef, Monica Corrado; Farmageddon filmmaker, Kristin Canty; and FTCLDF President, Pete Kennedy, Esq.

Learn what the guests have to say about:

  • How FTCLDF helps local food communities, including chefs, farmers, and consumers
  • Why chefs like Monica support FTCLDF’s work
  • Why Kristin made the FTCLDF-inspired film, Farmageddon
  • How FTCLDF helps make the regulatory climate as favorable as possible for local food
  • Legislative updates in Virginia, Michigan, and Illinois

Listen to the podcast for these and much more!

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speaker(s) and not those of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.

Subscribe in iTunes*

 

Together we stand, divided we fail.

The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund is doing what individuals can’t do or finance alone, like:

  • Paying for expensive litigation to save small farms and their communities
  • Having attorneys answer “farmer 911” phone calls in the wee hours of the morning
  • Suing the FDA and USDA over unfair small farm regulations

Take part in our 5th Annual Pampered Chef FundRAISER OR Become a member now!

About this Episode

You’ll hear from the following:

Monica CorradoMonica Corrado, MA, CNC is a teaching chef and holistic Certified Nutritional Consultant, a dynamic teacher, speaker, consultant, and author, who lives to share the tools, knowledge and inspiration to cook nourishing, traditional food. Her website is simplybeingwell.com. Check out Monica’s family’s favorite recipe, Oxtail Soup.

Monica tells us how FTCLDF helps local food communities, including chefs such as herself, farmers, and consumers and how she has fundraised for FTCLDF.

Kristin CantyKristin Canty is a documentary filmmaker, farm owner, restaurateur, and passionate advocate for small farms and traditional food. Her interest in real food grows from the dramatic healing impact dietary changes made for her son. Switching her son to a real food diet cured her son’s allergies and asthma completely.

Kristin Canty talks about the making of her documentary on farm raids, Farmageddon, and more.

Intro-Pete 3-1Pete Kennedy is an attorney in Sarasota, Florida and serves as the president of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and vice president of the Farm-to-Consumer Foundation. Prior to and since the founding of these organizations, Pete has worked on raw dairy issues in various states as well as other food distribution aspects including extensive reviews of legislation, particularly food safety and raw milk bills. He also provides instruction on the legal aspects for Cow-Share College & Goat-Share University.

Pete tells us about the latest legislature updates, including the groundbreaking On-Farm Activities Bill in Virginia, the Swine Invasive Species Order in Michigan, and a shell bill in Illinois and how FTCLDF helps make the regulatory climate as favorable as possible for local food.

Extras

How to Survive a Farm Raid by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund

Illinois Legislators Honor Right of Consumers to Buy Farm Fresh Milk

Judge Strikes Down Michigan Swine ISO by Pete Kennedy

Precedent Setting Agriculture Bill Signed by Governor Terry McAuliffe – Press release

 

FOOD RIGHTS HOUR PODCASTS FoodRightsHourAlbumCover600x600

Questions or comments about this episode of the Food Rights Hour Podcast? Please email [email protected], and we will be glad to respond to you via email or even on a future podcast.

Listen to other recordings of the Food Rights Hour

 

*Subscribe in iTunes: it’s free! When you subscribe to our podcast in iTunes, your computer will automatically download new episodes of the Food Rights Hour Podcast to your Libraries folder on your computer so that you can listen at your leisure or upload them to your mp3 player by simply plugging in your mp3 player and opening iTunes. Trouble downloading the podcast? If using Internet Explorer, right click the “Download Podcast” button once and select “Save Target As”, or try using Mozilla Firefox as your web browser.

Share this:

  • Tweet
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email

This article can be found in: Food Rights Hour Podcast, Uncategorized This article is related to: food freedom, FRH-Michelle, FTCLDF Cases

Primary Sidebar

Raw Milk Map

State-by-State Raw Milk Laws

Cottage Food Map

Map of the United States showing cottage food laws in each state

Poultry Nation©

Red Meat Nation©

State-by-State Slaughter Laws

Footer

  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Threads
  • X
  • LinkedIn
  • Contact Us
  • Login

Defending the rights and broadening the freedoms of family farms and protecting consumer access to raw milk and nutrient dense foods. Copyright © 2007-2025 · For more information: email: [email protected] · Phone: (703) 208-FARM (3276) · Falls Church, VA Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) The content of this website is intended for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended to be nor should it be construed as either a legal opinion or as legal advice. Articles posted here do not necessarily represent the views or the position of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.