Dear Members:
I recently sent you an appeal letter on behalf of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund in the mail.
We are delighted with the progress they are making to improve our access to raw milk and other nutrient-dense foods! Their recent win for Vernon Hershberger is, in my opinion, the greatest court victory for the raw milk movement in the United States.
As we help the FTCLDF we help our farmers and ourselves! Your financial support for this important work is appreciated!
Thank you!
Sally
Sally Fallon Morell, President
The Weston A. Price Foundation
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Help Farmers and Get Great Gifts
Annual FundRAISER 2013
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 must stand beside them in court, while paying the attorney fees and court costs. That’s where our caring food 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 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!
As FTCLDF member and farmer, Vernon Hershberger, put it:
“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!
Check out the Donor Gifts below, visit www.farmtoconsumer.org/Appeal2013, or donate now.
$250 Donor Gift – Celebration! At Polyface Farm!
Farmstead Breakfast, Lunch, and Premium Tour with Joel Salatin and Family
Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia
Saturday, September 7, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
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 – Virginia and Organic Wines
$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 August 20, 2013.
Qualifying donation is $250 per adult and $100 per child (10 yrs & under; lap children attend free).
Visit www.farmtoconsumer.org/Appeal2013, or call (703)208-FARM (3276).
$100 Donor Gift – Option 1
The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care
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 August 20, 2013.
Visit www.farmtoconsumer.org/Appeal2013, or call (703)208-FARM (3276).
$100 Donor Gift – Option 2
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle Over Who Decides What We Eat
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 August 20, 2013.
Visit www.farmtoconsumer.org/Appeal2013, or call (703)208-FARM (3276).
$100 Donor Gift – Option 3
American Meat Documentary DVD
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 August 20, 2013.
Visit www.farmtoconsumer.org/Appeal2013, or call (703)208-FARM (3276).
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 FTCLDF, or check out the FTCLDF 2012 Summary.
Membership benefits include the possibility of representation in court; FTCLDF typically pays for all court costs. FTCLDF 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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To donate, call (703) 208-FARM (3276), or visit the www.farmtoconsumer.org/Appeal2013.
Donations to the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund are always appreciated though not tax-deductible. Prefer to make a tax-deductible donation? Go to www.farmtoconsumer.org/PIL for information about “public interest litigation” (PIL).
Questions about donations or membership? Contact us by email at info@farmtoconsumer.org, or call 703-208-FARM (3276).
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