Political Action Services
The Fund will lobby at the federal and, particularly, at the state
level to work toward the passage of laws favorable to grass-based
and non-toxic farming. Goals of the Fund, whether achieved through
the legislative, administrative or judicial process, include:
1. Defeating any attempt to implement the National Animal Identification
System (NAIS), and working to ensure that there be no premise registration
whether voluntary or mandatory;
2. Opposing any efforts to further centralize control of the food
supply;
3. Opposing any efforts of industrial agriculture to interfere
with the livelihood of grass-based farmers;
4. Defeating any attempt by the dairy cooperative system to stop
co-op members from marketing their products direct to the consumer;
5. Opposing any attempt to further monopolize the seed supply through
patenting traditional, hybrid and GMO seeds as well buying up traditional
seed supplies;
6. Opposing any harmonization of federal and state health laws
that adversely impact consumer access to the products of qualifying
farms;
7. Overturning any state law banning cow share or herd share agreements;
8. Supporting the legalization of raw milk and raw milk products
in all states where their sale is currently illegal;
9. Overturning the federal regulation banning the interstate shipment
of raw milk for human consumption;
10. Permitting the sale of meat from animals slaughtered at custom
slaughtering houses; and legalizing the on-farm slaughtering of
animals; and
11. Opposing any laws that prohibit the on-farm processing and
direct sale of prepared food products, including but not limited
to bread and other baked goods, prepared foods and lacto-fermented
foods and beverages.
The Fund seeks to network with like-minded groups in promoting
and defending grass-based and non-toxic farming. It seeks to change
a system where, under the guise of protecting the public health,
state and federal laws hinder the ability of the small farmer to
provide healthy food directly to the consumer. It seeks to prevent
industrial agriculture from eliminating the small farmer and to
restore non-toxic grass-based farms producing life-giving foods
to the prominence they once held in American society. |