Comments on: Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/ Organic food information and tips and gadgets for healthier living Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:03:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: Diane Vigil http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-5704 Diane Vigil Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:55:19 +0000 http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-5704 Hello, Kathy, and welcome to We Want Organic Food. Actually, I was quoting from the Farm To Consumer Legal Defense Fund materials, and then there were other comments following my article. I think the point was just what you said --- where farmers are having difficulty getting their products from the farm to more people. Distribution sounds like a good idea. Hello, Kathy, and welcome to We Want Organic Food.

Actually, I was quoting from the Farm To Consumer Legal Defense Fund materials, and then there were other comments following my article.

I think the point was just what you said — where farmers are having difficulty getting their products from the farm to more people. Distribution sounds like a good idea.

]]> By: kathy haven http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-5703 kathy haven Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:34:06 +0000 http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-5703 diane i will have to diagree with u as far as a farmer having no middleman if they did you say they wont make a profit . there are many a farmers that cant get their products from their farm to more people especially the amish people they dont drive there are a many a farmers that need a distributor for their products to be brought somewhere for sales to multiply for them its called distributor in allmost every business there are distributors every one so if someone wants to take the farmers products ,say to the sick or disabled or very far away ,but still local everyone profits EVERYONE this is what i do now for a living its either this or go on welfare the farmer seems to be real happy about it as well cause hes local but still 6 hours away local most people wont drive to him i challege any government agency about my JOB LET THEM JUST RY TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME OR THE FARMER I AM HELPING THE FARMER IS HELPING ME MY GREAT GRANDFATHERS WERE FARMERS IN THIS COUNTRY THEY KNEW THOMAS JEFF AND MADISON IM GRANFATHERED IN ALLREADY diane i will have to diagree with u as far as a farmer having no middleman
if they did you say they wont make a profit . there are many a farmers that cant get their products from their farm to more people
especially the amish people
they dont drive there are a many a farmers that need a distributor for their products to be brought somewhere for sales to multiply for them
its called distributor
in allmost every business there are distributors
every one
so if someone wants to take the farmers products ,say to the sick or disabled or very far away ,but still local
everyone profits EVERYONE
this is what i do now
for a living
its either this or go on welfare
the farmer seems to be real happy about it as well cause hes local but still 6 hours away local
most people wont drive to him
i challege any government agency about my JOB
LET THEM JUST RY TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME OR THE FARMER I AM HELPING
THE FARMER IS HELPING ME
MY GREAT GRANDFATHERS WERE FARMERS IN THIS COUNTRY THEY KNEW THOMAS JEFF AND MADISON
IM GRANFATHERED IN ALLREADY

]]> By: Diane Vigil http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-5642 Diane Vigil Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:04:44 +0000 http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-5642 Thank you for mentioning the Stowers' plight (and welcome to We Want Organic Food). I did a bit of a search, and learned that on December 1, 2008, the Ohio Department of Agriculture entered their home without identifying themselves, then held the Stowers and children for six hours. I'm going to write an article, but here's a YouTube video for now: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FdLxMKuxyr4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FdLxMKuxyr4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Thank you for mentioning the Stowers' plight (and welcome to We Want Organic Food). I did a bit of a search, and learned that on December 1, 2008, the Ohio Department of Agriculture entered their home without identifying themselves, then held the Stowers and children for six hours. I'm going to write an article, but here's a YouTube video for now:

]]> By: bruce werner http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-5640 bruce werner Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:37:43 +0000 http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-5640 I read recently about the raid on the Stowers home and co-op up in Ohio by sherriffs officers and other officials of the state. They entered a home where 8 children and a housewife were, they intimidated them with drawn guns, and held them captive for about 6 hours while the house was torn aprt and every room searched. Computers, phones, and about 10,000 dollars of food was stolen and confiscated. Where are the peoples of Ohio in this, are they outraged and demanding the Governor to step in and make this right? Is it any wonder the people, every year, hate the Govt. more and more? Bruce Werner I read recently about the raid on the Stowers home and co-op up in Ohio by sherriffs officers and other officials of the state. They entered a home where 8 children and a housewife were, they intimidated them with drawn guns, and held them captive for about 6 hours while the house was torn aprt and every room searched. Computers, phones, and about 10,000 dollars of food was stolen and confiscated. Where are the peoples of Ohio in this, are they outraged and demanding the Governor to step in and make this right? Is it any wonder the people, every year, hate the Govt. more and more? Bruce Werner

]]> By: Diane Vigil http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-414 Diane Vigil Sun, 03 Feb 2008 07:19:02 +0000 http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-414 You're right, Lynn. Farming can't be an easy life (at least, so it seems to this city-dweller), but small organic farms are the source of well-raised, clean, organic food that factory farms will never be. Unfortunately, farming does not seem to be something that scales well in terms of profitability, at least as practiced without factory farming and the production of "food-like substances". When you look at "who benefits" by these laws, they smack of favoritism and worse. That said, I suspect that the current climate of consumers desiring cleaner food than that provided by factory farms and processed food producers may have led to further suppression of the small guy; such is what I suspect we're seeing with the moves against raw milk here in California. Do we really need these governmental <s>shenanigans</s> intrusions? <blockquote> "If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson (1778) </blockquote> You're right, Lynn. Farming can't be an easy life (at least, so it seems to this city-dweller), but small organic farms are the source of well-raised, clean, organic food that factory farms will never be.

Unfortunately, farming does not seem to be something that scales well in terms of profitability, at least as practiced without factory farming and the production of "food-like substances". When you look at "who benefits" by these laws, they smack of favoritism and worse.

That said, I suspect that the current climate of consumers desiring cleaner food than that provided by factory farms and processed food producers may have led to further suppression of the small guy; such is what I suspect we're seeing with the moves against raw milk here in California.

Do we really need these governmental shenanigans intrusions?

"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson (1778)

]]> By: Lynn Cameron http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-412 Lynn Cameron Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:31:45 +0000 http://wewantorganicfood.com/2007/09/16/farm-to-consumer-legal-defense-fund/#comment-412 When farmers have the right to sell unprocessed 'real' milk and other farm-fresh products directly to consumers without a middle-man, they can make a decent living, even with small herds and limited acreage. Pasteurization and other laws limiting on-farm sales favor large, industrialized conglomerates and squeeze out small farmers. Let's all increase the demand for 'real food' and save the small Family Farm! When farmers have the right to sell unprocessed 'real' milk and other farm-fresh products directly to consumers without a middle-man, they can make a decent living, even with small herds and limited acreage.

Pasteurization and other laws limiting on-farm sales favor large, industrialized conglomerates and squeeze out small farmers. Let's all increase the demand for 'real food' and save the small Family Farm!

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