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Food Rights News

West Virginia Raw Milk: Making the Legal Illegal

By Farm-to-Consumer | July 20, 2016

What do you do if you oppose any raw milk distribution and your state legislature passes a law legalizing herd shares? If you are the West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture and the West Virginia Department

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This article can be found in: Food Rights News, State News This article is related to: raw milk, raw milk laws, state legislation, West Virginia

Courts Vindicate Amish Farmer for Fourth Time

By Farm-to-Consumer | July 13, 2016

If at first you don’t succeed at harassing a farmer out of business, try again…and again…and again. That has been the tack the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Hopewell Township have taken since 2012 against Amish farmer

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This article can be found in: Food Rights News, State News This article is related to: Amish, food clubs, FTCLDF Cases, Pennsylvania

How Consumers Can Respond to a Raid

By Gary Cox, Esq. | July 1, 2016

When it comes to the alternative food movement, it is usually the farmer against whom the government takes enforcement action. However, there are many examples where a person allows their driveway, front door stoop, or back porch to be used

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This article can be found in: Food Rights News, Swarms This article is related to: consumer rights, food clubs, food freedom, raw milk

The United States of America v. Miller’s Organic Farm and Amos Miller

By Farm-to-Consumer | June 27, 2016

On June 28 an American court will once again address the question of whether there is a legal distinction between the public and private distribution of food. To this point no judge in this country has held that there is a

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This article can be found in: Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: food clubs, food freedom, Miller's Organic Farm, Pennsylvania

Raw Butter Is a Communicable Disease

By Farm-to-Consumer | June 23, 2016

Ridiculous, but true: The FDA is telling us that it can ban raw butter in interstate commerce under its power to regulate communicable disease.

Why is this ban silly?
– Raw butter has the safest record of any dairy product and has not been proven to cause any food borne illness.
– The law doesn’t allow the FDA to take this action.

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This article can be found in: Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: federal legislation, food freedom, food safety, FTCLDF Cases, Organic Pastures Dairy Company, raw butter

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