Podcast with Dan Ravicher, Esq. by Judith McGeary, Esq.
Episode 1 of the Food Rights Hour podcast is an interview with Dan Ravicher, the lead attorney in the farmers’ lawsuit against Monsanto. Over 80 farmers and farming organizations, including the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, have taken on the Goliath of the agricultural world in a
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FTCLDF to Represent Hershberger
Falls Church, Virginia (August 28, 2012) — Wisconsin dairy farmer, Vernon Hershberger of Loganville, has retained the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) to represent him in his upcoming criminal trial on four misdemeanor counts for alleged violations of the Wisconsin food and dairy code. The trial was originally supposed to take place on September 25
WAPF & FTCLDF Team Up to Sponsor Real Food Stage at Mother Earth News Fair
Mother Earth News Fair, Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, September 21 – 23, 2012! Bring your family to a fun-filled sustainable lifestyle event, packed with hands-on workshops and demonstrations on renewable energy, small-scale farming, green building, organic gardening and more! The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense is stepping up this year to help the Weston A. Price Foundation provide three full days […]
Bechards Get Favorable Settlement with Missouri Milk Board
Falls Church, VA (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Last month Armand and Teddi Bechard entered into a consent agreement with the State of Missouri, ending a case that began in 2009. On two occasions in the spring of 2009, undercover agents from the Springfield-Greene County Health Department allegedly purchased raw milk at the Bechard’s central delivery point, a health food store parking lot in Springfield.
Morningland Dairy Still Needs Your Help!
Missouri’s farmstead cheesemaker remains shut down and is in the process of appealing the judge’s ruling. The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) got involved in the case from the very beginning, and the Dixons are very thankful that they had somewhere to turn in their hour of crisis. Joe Dixon has had to go on […]