If You Want More Local Food, Stop Criminalizing Family Farmers

[plantwomyn]

14. Only two of the examples in the article

could even remotely be considered "family farmers". As for the raw milk question, even Daniel Brown from Maine admitted that if someone got sick the Raw milk industry would suffer. You see there are LICENSED Raw milk producers but Daniel Brown says that he doesn't make enough to get licensed. Yet Walter Whitcomb, the Agriculture Department, who is one of Daniel Brown's good friends, had Daniel's milk tested and it showed elivated bacterial content.
The examples that the author sights about growing vegetables were ZONING conflicts in RESIDENTIAL areas. In short, they were gardeners NOT farmers. Get a waiver or change the law, that's how zoning works.
This guy is a hack. There are undoubtedly hundreds of examples of how real family farmers are getting screwed by agribusiness but this article doesn't sight even one true example. Just look at the fact that big agribusinesses took over the very word "organic". Family farmers have been forced to use the word "natural" now, not because their was a national cry for regulation but because big AG was feeling the bite in their bottom line and wanted to regulate the little guy out of the market. It's a racket.