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Tell Congress To Do Its Job and Oppose Fast Tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Agreement! Action Alert

By admin | January 16, 2014

International courts, acting at the request of private corporations, overturning the laws adopted by your elected officials. Does that sound like a good idea to you? Scarily, if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement goes through, you’ll see a lot more of this.

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Stop the Fast Track

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This article can be found in: Action Alerts, Federal News, Food Rights News, International News This article is related to: Action Alerts, food freedom, TPP, trade deals

Virginia Task Force Results in New On-Farm Activities Bill

By admin | January 14, 2014

Bill Moves from Hotly Contested in 2013 to Cooperative Effort in 2014 Legislative Session
 
Richmond, Virginia—(January 14, 2014)—Last year’s bill to redress aggrieved farmer, Martha Boneta, is now retooled and a new bill HB268 was introduced on January 8, 2014, by Delegate Bobby

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This article can be found in: Food Rights News, Press Room, State News This article is related to: Action Alerts, Boneta Bill, farm-to-fork dinner, Right to Farm, state legislation, Virginia

FTCLDF Members Appear Before Virginia Supreme Court

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. | December 10, 2013

York County oyster farmers Anthony Bavuso and Greg Garrett had their respective cases argued before the Virginia Supreme Court on October 28. In each case, York County Zoning Administrator J. Mark Carter and other county officials were appealing rulings from

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This article can be found in: Action Alerts, Food Rights News, Pete Kennedy, Esq., State News This article is related to: Action Alerts, Bavuso, FTCLDF Cases, oysters, state legislation, Virginia

FSMA: Comment on FDA’s Proposed Food Safety Regulations by November 15 Deadline Action Alert

By admin | October 22, 2013

Food safety regulations proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pose significant problems for sustainable farmers, food producers, and food hubs across the country.
 
Under the proposed regulations, many farmers will be forced to comply with high-cost, industrial-scale regulations, and they will be unable to use traditional, sustainable growing practices. Food hubs and local food businesses will be forced to deal with costly and

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This article can be found in: Action Alerts, Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: Action Alerts, FSMA, petitions

Speak Up for Pastured Egg Farms Action Alert

By admin | September 23, 2013

Comments Due Today (Sep. 23, 2013)
The FDA is yet again putting burdens on farmers who use healthy, sustainable practices, and justifying them with fear-based assumptions rather than data. The agency’s latest move is a draft guidance document that will make it all but impossible for farmers with 3,000 or more laying hens to keep the birds on pasture.

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This article can be found in: Action Alerts, Federal News, Food Rights News This article is related to: Action Alerts, eggs, FDA regulations, poultry

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