{"id":578,"date":"2012-01-03T19:24:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T01:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/?p=578"},"modified":"2012-01-03T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T01:30:19","slug":"tell-gov-lepage-to-stop-criminalizing-maines-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Tell Gov. LePage to Stop Criminalizing Maine’s Farmers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>FOOD FOR MAINE\u2019S FUTURE NEEDS YOU TO JOIN OUR CALL FOR MAINE GOVERNOR PAUL LEPAGE TO DROP THE LAWSUIT AGAINST FARMER DAN BROWN!<\/p>\n

Sign our petition at:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/governor-lepage-drop-the-lawsuit-against-farmer-dan-brown<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear Gov. Paul LePage,<\/p>\n

We, the undersigned, call on you and your administration to withdraw
\nthe lawsuit against Blue Hill farmer Dan Brown of Gravelwood Farm.
\nRecent rule changes by the Maine Department of Agriculture – including
\npoultry processing and raw milk sales – are making criminals out of
\nhard-working Mainers who are growing and processing food to share in
\ntheir communities. Now the Department of Agriculture and State of
\nMaine are suing a man milking one cow and selling jams, pickles, and
\nother prepared foods from his farmhouse kitchen. If successfully
\npursued, this lawsuit will have a chilling effect on Maine’s growing
\nlocal food movement and the promise of real economic development in
\nour rural communities. Shouldn’t Maine’s small-scale, diversified
\nfarms and cottage businesses have the same opportunities generations
\nbefore us had, without the threat of lawsuits or armed raids as we are
\nwitnessing around the U.S.?<\/p>\n

Read our full letter at www.savingseeds.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And check out the coverage of our growing movement in the latest issue
\nof Saving Seeds at
\nhttps:\/\/salsa.democracyinaction.org\/o\/1221\/images\/Saving%20Seeds%20Winter%202012%20Web.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FOOD FOR MAINE\u2019S FUTURE NEEDS YOU TO JOIN OUR CALL FOR MAINE GOVERNOR PAUL LEPAGE TO DROP THE LAWSUIT AGAINST FARMER DAN BROWN! Sign our petition at: http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/governor-lepage-drop-the-lawsuit-against-farmer-dan-brown Dear Gov. Paul LePage, We, the undersigned, call on you and your … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foodsovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}