Petition to Support Non-GMOs, Farmer Freedom & Consumer Choice in Farm Bill

Action Alert from the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund:

Tell Senators to Vote YES on These Farm Bill Amendments

Support Non-GMO Agriculture, Small Farms and Food Freedom – Use FAX Petition

The U.S. Senate plans to continue debating the Farm Bill (S.954), when it returns to work next week. There are still over 200 amendments on the table, including one to repeal the Monsanto Protection Act.

The Senate is expected to limit the number of amendments to be debated, so it’s important to let your Senators know NOW that these amendments are important to you.

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Calls needed for Animal ID bill in Texas Senate!

FARFA_wilderness_logoAlert from the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance:

The Animal ID bill has been scheduled for a vote by the Texas Senate tomorrow, Thursday, April 25.  Please help us fight back!

This bill — SB 1233 / HB 2311 – would authorize the Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) to adopt federal animal ID requirements, including that all poultry be individually tagged with permanent leg bands unless they are from a commercial hatchery or a confinement operation. The bill would also authorize TAHC to adopt future federal regulations whenever it wants, which could mean new regulations on sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and horses.

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Green Gate Farms CSAs and Spring Activities

Green Gate Farms logoAnnouncement from Green Gate Farms:

Green Gate Farms is a certified organic farm in the Austin, Texas, area.  They offer CSAs, camps, workshare memberships, and many other options.

Spring CSAs begin March 18.  The CSAs include vegetables, flowers, eggs, and meats.

There will be a certified organic plant sale on Saturday, March 9, from 10 am to 2 pm.

The farm offers children farm camps, family farm days, and adult farm camp.

For more information about these events and registration, go to the Green Gate Farms website.

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Hearing for Texas Raw Milk Delivery Bill

Let’s help pass Texas House Bills HB 46 (raw milk delivery) and HB 910 (limiting fees for farmers markets)!  There’s a Texas Public Health Committee hearing in Austin on Wednesday, February 27.  The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance is organizing consumers to appear at the hearing to demonstrate support. 

Alert from the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance:

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Texas raw milk farmer’s license suspended for delivering to private drop point — we need HB 46 to change the law!

An action alert from the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance:

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The Fourfold Path to Healing Conference, Long Beach, CA

An announcement from the Weston A. Price Foundation:

The Fourfold Path to Healing Conference
February 8-10, 2013
The Queen Mary – Long Beach, CA

Take advantage of this rare opportunity to hear three of today’s most dynamic health speakers:

TOM COWAN, MD
holistic physician, principal author of The Fourfold Path to Healing

SALLY FALLON MORELL
author of Nourishing Traditions

JAIMEN MCMILLAN
creator of Spacial Dynamics

REGISTER
EARLY REGISTRATION RATES EXTENDED TO JANUARY 22
To register go to: https://www.ptfassociates.com/secure/fourfold/2013Fourfold_Registration.htm

Please join us for an incredible weekend of dynamic discussions, presentations and lectures featuring the authors of The Fourfold Path to Healing.

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USDA Issues Final Animal ID Rule

FARFA_wilderness_logoNews from the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance:

The USDA has issued a final rule on Animal ID.  While we are still working on a complete analysis of the rule, USDA’s announcement identified several important changes that it made to the proposed rule, which make this final rule far less burdensome on family farmers, ranchers, and backyard poultry owners.

We want to say THANK YOU to each and every one of you who took the time to write comments on the proposed rule in response to our action alerts.  Your comments truly made a difference!  We didn’t get every change we pushed for, but we got most of them, thanks to your hard work and support.

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Support Raw Milk Access in Texas!

Jersey dairy cowThe Texas legislature meets again in 2013 and we have another chance to improve our access to raw milk with the passage of HB 46. Those who used our tax money to fight the 2011 bill claimed safety issues; however, this is not a safety issue. It’s already legal to buy the same raw milk from the farmer on his farm. Allowing the farmer to deliver milk to his customers would not be less safe than customers driving many miles to the farm to pick up milk, it would just be more convenient for both.

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Dr. Weston A. Price’s Research and Traditional Diets Presented at Great Oak School

Meeting at Great Oak SchoolHouston Real Food Nutrition, our new Meetup Group, had its first meeting Saturday, November 3, at the Great Oak School in Tomball, TX.  We were glad to see how interested the attendees were in improving their health through nutrition.  There were lots of questions and a very lively discussion of many topics, ranging from raw milk to fermented foods to dietary mineral absorption.  The meeting featured a video overview about the nutrition research of Dr. Weston A. Price (from the Nourishing Our Children series) and a slide show summary of the principles of traditional diets.  Dr. Price spent ten years traveling around the world to study the health and nutrition of people who were still eating their traditional diet.  He wanted to know if they were healthy and what they were eating.  He found a wide variety of diets that all included high levels of essential nutrients not found in the diets of ‘civilization.’   Read more (including more photos) at Real Food Houston.

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Houston Real Food Nutrition – new Meetup Group

Houston Real Food Nutrition logoWe have created a Meetup Group for the Houston area named Houston Real Food Nutrition to help coordinate meetings and seminars about real food subjects.  Membership is open to anyone interested in eating and preparing real healthy food, meeting others who share their interest, and learning more about how nutrition affects our health.

The first meeting is scheduled for 9 am, November 3, at the Great Oaks School in Tomball.  The Nov. 3 presentation will include the research of Dr. Weston A. Price and the principles of traditional diets.

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