A Local Foods Feast for Congress
Farm Food Voices DC 2010
NICFA’s Fourth Annual
National Small Farm and Ranch Grassroots Lobby Day & Legislative Reception Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Lobbying 10:00 – 3:00 (Individuals meet with Legislative Aides)
Local Foods Reception 4:00 – 6:30 Room SD-106, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington DC
Joel Salatin, Emcee
Speakers:
Doreen Hannes – Truth Farmer Radio & NICFA Director of Research
David Gumpert- The Complete Patient Blog
Joan Veon – Women’s Media Group
Spike Gjerde – Chef/Owner Woodberry Kitchen, Baltimore
Congressman Ron Paul has been invited to speak.
The Food Safety bills in Congress threaten the viability of all local food production – the safest food available and our country’s most important economic engine.
Be the face and voice of the local foods movement to Congress. Join NICFA, its state affiliates, and others from around the country to lobby Congress and serve the LOCAL FOODS FEAST OF THE YEAR, featuring food from small independent farmers prepared by local chefs. Let’s again show Congress that local food is the best Safe Food System, highlighting the benefits available only from community based agriculture — prosperous local and national economies; health and nutrition for people, land and animals; and low energy impact from minimal transportation, processing and distribution.
ACTION:
Please make an appointment now to meet with your legislators’ agricultural aides on March 10.
Steps:
1. Call your Representative and Senators
2. Ask to speak to the Agriculture Aide.
3. Tell the Aide you will be in Washington DC on March 10 for this grassroots lobby day and you would like to schedule a meeting.
4. Invite the Aide and the legislator to come to the reception and experience the beauty of local food. Any legislator who attends is welcome to speak. (Sample invitation will be posted on www.NICFA.org).
New to lobbying? Fret not. We will provide a lobby training conference call and Talking Points. Please check www.NICFA.org frequently for updates.
Yours for food freedom,
Deborah Stockton, Executive Director
National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association (NICFA)
www.NICFA.org
nicfa@earthlink.net
Our purpose is to promote and preserve unregulated direct farmer-to-consumer trade that fosters availability of locally grown or home-produced food products..
NICFA opposes any government funded or managed National Animal Identification System.
Hello,
I was a friend of Joan Veon’s, who passed away about 6 months after this event mentioned above. While finding that her womensgroup.org website no longer exists, I found your webpage.
I noticed on this webpage nothing about opposing gmo and associated herbicides. Moreover cows sadly often in the US unless grass fed only, are fed gmo alfalfa and other gmo grains such as soy and corn. Soy Alert seems like a good idea; soy probably shouldnt be in the food supply but the weapons of mass destruction cloaked in food are the gmo grains and associated herbicides. What’s going on now with your organization.