The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) is a 501 (c) (4) non-profit organization whose members are joining together and pooling resources to:
- Protect the constitutional right of the nation’s family farms and artisan food producers to provide processed and unprocessed farm foods directly to consumers through any legal means.
- Protect the constitutional right of consumers to obtain unprocessed and processed foods directly from family farms and artisan food producers.
- Protect the nation’s family farms and artisan food producers from harassment by federal, state, and local government interference with food production and/or food processing.
The objective of FTCLDF is to defend the rights of sustainable family farms and artisan food producers to make their products available to consumers in a manner that protects, preserves and enhances the environment and its natural resources, products that include but are not limited to meat and meat products, poultry, eggs, raw milk and raw milk products, fruits and vegetables, lacto-fermented foods and beverages, prepared foods, and bread and other baked goods directly to consumers without a license or permit.
- See the IRS Designation Letter [EIN 20-8605130]
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Mission Statement
The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization designed to protect the constitutional right of the nation’s sustainable family farms and artisan food producers to provide through any legal means unprocessed and processed foods directly to consumers; to protect the constitutional right of consumers to obtain unprocessed and processed foods directly from sustainable family farms and artisan food producers as well as to produce their own food; and to protect the nation’s sustainable family farms and artisan food producers from harassment by federal, state and local government interference with food production and/or food processing. The objective of the Corporation is to defend the rights of sustainable family farms and artisan food producers to make their products available to consumers in a manner that protects, preserves and enhances the environment and its natural resources, products that include but are not limited to meat and meat products, poultry, eggs, raw milk and raw milk products, fruits and vegetables, lacto-fermented foods and beverages, prepared foods, and bread and other baked goods directly to consumers without a license or permit. Toward this end, the Corporation will provide among other services: effective business or cooperative models to help the nation’s sustainable family farms operate to promote direct farm-to-consumer transactions in a manner that protects, preserves and enhances the environment and its natural resources without being subject to regulation; advocacy for legislation, regulatory actions, referenda at the federal, state and local levels, voter education initiatives and other legally permissible forms of advocacy that promotes direct farm-to-consumer transactions in a manner that protects, preserves and enhances the environment and its natural resources, and; legal defense and legal services for sustainable family farms that promote direct farm-to-consumer transactions against any local, state, and federal government interference with the legal production and distribution of products produced and processed on the farm in a manner that protects, preserves and enhances the environment and its natural resources.
Last Update: April 28, 2015