CALL TO ACTION
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Bakers Green Acres fined $700,000 by MI DNR
Court hearing followed by a Celebration of the farm
July 12-13, 2013
2:00pm
Missaukee County Courthouse
111 Canal Street Lake City MI
Background: After the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said that heritage breeds of pigs were considered an invasive species and thus outlawed, peaceful Michigan pig farmer Mark Baker was assaulted by the state. Mark’s herd of carefully tended Mangalista pigs provided his family with a reliable income and quality local food to businesses, restaurants, and individuals in Michigan. Now, Mark faces constant harassment by individuals in the DNR and the loss of his farm from the financial toll the DNR’s actions have taken, while the citizens of Michigan face the loss of another quality source of local food.
In response to the DNR aggression against Mark, the Baker family is suing the DNR for the ability to keep peacefully raising their pigs on their own land. The DNR is now fining the Bakers $700,000 for not killing their perfectly healthy herd of pigs.
Join hundreds of other concerned individuals in support of the Bakers in court and the following day on the farm for a celebration of the farm and fundraiser to keep the farm going!
ACTIONS:
1. Attend the hearing and celebration of the farm.
2. Donate to the fund to keep the farm going
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/20620
More info http://bakersgreenacres.com/?p=2332
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Lieske Genetics in Henderson, MN was a traditional breeding stock farm but has since been sold to the hedonites who I believe still raise pigs traditionally. Now, not as traditional as the Baker farm, where he has his hogs more outside in the dirt but the Lieskes didn’t believe in crating animals except at farrowing time although they were in large pens inside and out. The factory farms that have cropped up..their pigs never see daylight..I’ve worked managing farrowing, nursery and breeding for about 5 years from traditional to factory..the better way for the animal is traditional, however, it is work intensive so I would say Mr. Baker is some kind of awesome farmer. All swine were wild (meaning…living in the wild) at some stage. If 6 sows and a few boars escape one of those units..they’re probably more apt to cause damage than Mr. Baker because they’ll be susceptible to any diseases out there due to their confinement and more likely to carry disease to other farms … I don’t have the faintest idea why the DNR would go after these farmers, except to say that Mr. Baker doesn’t have the disease problems seen in large factory farms and I would assume that there’s more natural immunity in his herd, therefore, he doesn’t spend a fortune on antibiotics like factory farms. I know factory farms are an accident waiting to happen. When you house 600 adult sows and some boars, plus your nursery unit under one roof…you’re just asking for trouble…and I’ve seen that trouble answered with antibiotics..they’re suppose to use short-acting antibiotics but that’s a gray area. The way the DNR handles the many wildlife scenarios in many states..you really have to ask yourself if the scientists they hire were ‘D’ students and the only biological jobs they could get was in the public sector.