Re: Sale! 100% grassfed... Alvin's Rally

April 26, 2012

Thank you so much for your hard work on the rally and the support you

are giving to the cause! Don't stress over this, we will work out a

better time off-line. I totally support what you are doing for Alvin

and all farmer and consumer rights. I will deliver the meat to Mel this

weekend, so no worries there.

Anyone else reading this, please try to come to the rally, it is so

important that we don't dwindle away to a small crowd. This is not just

about raw milk, it is about our food freedom and our right to choose!

The corporate take-over of our food choices has already moved on to

slaughtering heritage hogs in MI. Remember all that was seized at the

Trad Foods Warehouse: cultured vegies, kombucha, state inspected pork &

beef and my USDA meat included.

My son, Chef , was accused of 'adulterating' food at a farmer's

market because he used our USDA inspected ground beef, cooked on site,

to max temp, in a state approved mobile kitchen, for nachos. Yes, beef

is not a proper ingredient for nachos only fake cheese sauce is

according to La Crosse health dept. What restaurant assoc do you think

was behind that reg? The list goes on and on, anything that undermines

corporate profits becomes target, and always under their tried and

successful food safety mantra, while they go on poisoning people with

chemical additives they don't even have to expose.

So, let's have a very large turnout and send a message we aren't

going to let corporate money funding these government prosecutors and

regulators squash our voices and our children's rights to real food.

~Jan

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> Jan,

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> I'm going to be really consumed during rally time. I'm on the

food/cooking

> committee, setting up for the rally, running a hotel at my house for 6

days

> with 7 out of town guests, running an airport shuttle for them, etc.

>

April 26, 2012

Thanks Jan, good words. For folks who don't think the government is up to

something, or that it is only in rare cases in MI or CA, or that the only people

being punished are people who have done something bad....THINK AGAIN.

A good friend (also a client of mine), who farms on his gorgeous mountain farm

in NC where we have set up 100% free-ranging heritage hog operation in the woods

(large blacks, old spots and osssebaws) had a " friendly " USDA man show up

YESTERDAY, all jokey and happy-acting, asking pointed questions and saying that

the USDA wants to come out and do some (get this) " free and voluntary DNA

testing on his hogs " " Free of charge " , mind you. " totally voluntary " ....Oh,

and: " Don't worry... " But they wanted to do it " right away " This Gestapo, I

mean, gov. agent, knew a totally freaky amount of information about his farm,

acreage, structures, number of animals, and much, much more that it was almost

impossible for them to know about. Mind you, there have been NO COMPLAINTS, NO

SICK PEOPLE, NO SICK ANIMALS, NO KNOWN PROBLEMS.

I immediately sent my friend to the FARM TO CONSUMER LEGAL DEFENSE FUND (he is

already a member) telling him not to sign anything, not to say anything unless

it was 100% vetted by PETE KENNEDY. Trouble is, I'm not sure that the FTCLDF can

keep these spies and moles off of his farm. Others who have run them off or who

have refused the " voluntary " testing, have had the agents just show up with a

SEARCH WARRANT along with armed " officers of the law " . Dammit. Then you REALLY

need a good lawyer to protect your rights.

If you are not already a member of FTCLFD, we need you. Consumer membership is

only $50 and a full farm membership is only $125. Please join up. We all need

to work together. Today it's Alvin they want, tomorrow..... who will it be?

Will Winter

Farmesota

Winona Farms Pork

April 26, 2012

The insidious attack on family farms is really escalating. Big Ag is clearly

beginning to feel the pinch of consumers opting out of industrial food.

For members who haven't signed yet, I'd be grateful if you'd sign my petition

regarding Michigan's recent DNR " Invasive Species Act, " which targets not only

feral pigs, but heritage-breed pigs on family farms based solely on certain

physical characteristics they share with wild hogs.

The petition is here:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/981/405/422/stop-michigan-dnr-from-slaughtering-h\

eritage-pig-breeds/