{"id":601,"date":"2012-01-10T13:39:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T19:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/?p=601"},"modified":"2012-01-11T22:46:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T04:46:13","slug":"rally-for-raw-milk-to-defend-local-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Rally for Raw Milk to Defend Local Food!"},"content":{"rendered":"
For Immediate Release\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan. 10, 2012<\/div>\n
Contact:\u00a0\u00a0 John E. Peck, executive director, Family Farm Defenders\u00a0 #608-260-0900<\/div>\n
John Kinsman, president, Family Farm Defenders\u00a0 #608-986-3815<\/div>\n
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Wed. Jan. 11th<\/sup> 12:00 Noon\u00a0 \u00a0Sauk County Courthouse Steps (515 Oak St. in Baraboo)<\/div>\n
Local fresh food advocates will gather and speak out in support of WI farmer, Vernon Herschberger, who must appear in court today for providing healthy unpasteurized dairy products to members of his own buying club.<\/div>\n
Speakers will address the real story behind DATCP\u2019s campaign targeting those who produce and enjoy fresh local foods in our state. \u00a0According to a story by Natural News (8\/15\/11), DATCP is receiving up to $80,000 per month from the FDA for this ongoing crackdown against raw milk.\u00a0 In addition, FDA officials were flown out to Wisconsin to join DATCP colleagues for surveillance operations of local farmers markets.\u00a0 Similar heavy-handed enforcement operations are targeting other dairy farmers, smallscale food processors, and even urban gardeners and backyard chicken owners across the country.<\/div>\n
\u201cThe federal government has more important food safety issues to attend to \u2013 such as the rampant illegal use of antibiotics in the dairy industry that is contaminating our meat and milk supply.\u00a0 This effort to criminalize small sustainable farmers is but a crude effort to divert public attention away from the far more serious dangers posed by corporate agribusiness and its industrial factory farm practices,\u201d noted John Kinsman, longtime organic dairy farmer and president of Family Farm Defenders.<\/div>\n
Kinsman is referring to widespread news reports that U.S. meat and milk exports recently failed European Union standards for drug residues and that Wisconsin is now the worst violator nationwide in terms of drug abuse in the dairy sector.\u00a0 \u00a0In an article in Agriview (12\/15\/11), USDA Deputy Secretary, Kathleen Merrigan, was quoted as saying \u201cWith millions of Americans contracting foodborne illnesses each year, the USDA is committed to supporting research that improves the safety of our nation\u2019s food supply.\u201d Yet, there has been no serious federal or state action to address these latest revelations about our sordid food\/farm system.<\/div>\n
\u201cThis Big Brother in the Barnyard bullying behavior against small dairy farmers like Vernon Herschberger in WI or Daniel Brown in Maine has got to stop,\u201d noted John Peck, executive director. \u201cNot only is it a violation of food sovereignty but it denies people access to local fresh foods that are much safer and nutritious than those which are imported without much regulation or produced in filthy faraway factory farms.\u201d<\/div>\n
Citizens will be asked to contact their elected officials in defense of their right to enjoy local fresh food.\u00a0 Free samples of fresh milk will also be available.<\/div>\n
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For Immediate Release\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jan. 10, 2012 Contact:\u00a0\u00a0 John E. Peck, executive director, Family Farm Defenders\u00a0 #608-260-0900 John Kinsman, president, Family Farm Defenders\u00a0 #608-986-3815 Wed. Jan. 11th 12:00 Noon\u00a0 \u00a0Sauk County Courthouse Steps (515 Oak St. in Baraboo) Local fresh food … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodsovereignty","category-localfood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyfarmers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}