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Donate by Tomorrow at Midnight, August 20!
We value our farmers and the foods they provide; and in the current climate of overregulation, we have to protect them and offer easy access to affordable legal care.
And, when things get tough, we stand beside them in court, while paying the attorney fees and court costs. That's where our caring local foods community comes in.
Through donations and membership fees, we keep the membership costs down and provide the funds to mount these expensive cases!
Together, we are shouldering the burden and making headway against stiff opposition with their deep pockets! Since just one jury trial could easily cost a farmer $500,000, members and donors have become the farmer's saving grace to keep them afloat and keep on farming!
Lawyers in the growing attorney network of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund offer their services either pro bono or at greatly reduced rates; thus, your donations have a multiplying effect.
As FTCLDF member and farmer, Vernon Hershberger, put it:
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The Hershberger Family
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"I want to strongly encourage everyone to think seriously about financially supporting the FTCLDF! In the last year, besides The Almighty God, they are the only reason that I am still at home with my family instead of being in a jail cell."
Although it's our beloved farmers that draw most of the heat these days, FTCLDF also provides legal care to the entire food rights community, including artisan food producers, food clubs and co-ops, farmers markets and even consumers!
In her appeal letter on behalf of FTCLDF, Sally Fallon Morell, President of the Weston A. Price Foundation and founding Board member, called the FTCLDF's victory for Vernon Hershberger, "...the greatest court victory for the raw milk movement in the United States."
Check out the Donor Gifts below or Visit www.farmtoconsumer.org/Appeal2013 Call (703)208-3276 if you'd like to donate by Paypal and would like to choose a donor gift.
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Donate $250 and Dine with Joel Salatin
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Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia
Saturday, September 7, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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Your very special day at Polyface Farm will include:
- Farmstead Breakfast with Polyface Fare
- 2 ½ hour Premium Hay Wagon Tour with Joel Salatin
- Farmstead Lunch with the Salatin Family, Staff and Interns
- Winetasting - with Local Winery, Ox-Eye Vineyards
- $10 Polyface Farm Store Gift Certificate
- Children's Activities
- Remarks by Pete Kennedy, FTCLDF President, and Special Guests including Sally Fallon Morell
To receive this gift, donate $250 or more by tomorrow, Tuesday, August 20.
Qualifying donation is $250/adult and $100/child (10 yrs & under; lap children attend free).
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$100 Donor Gift - Option 1
by Sally Fallon Morell and Thomas S. Cowan, MD
In his studies of isolated non-industrialized peoples, Dr. Weston A. Price formulated the dietary laws necessary for ensuring the health and vitality of our children, generation after generation. The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care now makes these principles available to modern parents, with primary emphasis on a nutrient-dense diet starting before conception and continuing through pregnancy, breastfeeding and the period of growth.
To receive this gift, donate $100 or more by Tuesday, August 20.
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$100 Donor Gift - Option 2
by David Gumpert
Forward by Joel Salatin:
Do Americans have the right to privately obtain the foods of our choice from farmers, neighbors, and local producers in the same way our grandparents and great grandparents used to do?
Yes, say a growing number of people increasingly afraid that the mass-produced food sold at supermarkets is excessively processed, tainted with antibiotic residues and hormones, and lacking in important nutrients. These people, a million or more, are seeking foods outside the regulatory system, like raw milk, custom-slaughtered beef, and pastured eggs from chickens raised without soy, purchased directly from private membership-only food clubs that contract with Amish and other farmers.
To receive this gift, donate $100 or more
by Tuesday, August 20.
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$100 Donor Gift - Option 3
by Graham Meriwether
American Meat is a pro-farmer look at chicken, hog and cattle production in America. Beginning with a history of our current industrial system, the feedlots and confinement operations are unveiled, not through hidden cameras, but through the eyes of the farmers who live and work there.
To receive this gift, donate $100 or more
by Tuesday, August 20.
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Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, defends the rights and broadens the freedoms of family farms and artisan food producers while protecting consumer access to raw milk and nutrient-dense foods. Learn more About Us or check out the FTCLDF 2012 Summary.
Membership benefits include the possibility of representation in court; the Fund typically pays for all court costs. The Fund is not an insurance company and cannot guarantee representation on all legal matters. Your membership fees and donations help to keep local food sources available and preserve family farms facing unjust enforcement actions.
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