Quick facts about everything that is changing in our world and why
![SUPPORT: Right to Grow/Raise Food [Tennessee] State bill, also in Texas and passed in Maine](https://doortofreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/th-492196754.jpg)
With the accelerating decline of food for sale in the conventional food system, it’s becoming increasingly important to protect the right of individuals to grow their own food. Zoning regulations can be a big impediment to growing and consuming an individual’s foods of choice.
EPA has issued a proposed rule on effluent limitations for meat and poultry processors that looks like it could be interpreted to apply EPA sewer requirements to all meat and poultry processing plants, even small custom processors.
Proposed Constitutional Amendment on Right to Food
Earlier this year Representative Thomas Massie proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that states:
The right of the people to grow food and to purchase food from the source of their choice shall not be infringed and Congress shall make no law regulating the production and distribution of food products which do not move across state lines.
Change statute interpretation:
Regulations to control of communicable disease – 42 USC 264
42 USC 264(a) promulgation and enforcement by the Surgeon General provides:
The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Administrator (Secretary), is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the states or possessions,
![SUPPORT: Custom Meat Pilot Program – Sec. 12114 [Farm Bill]](https://doortofreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/th-320084448.jpg)
Current law prohibits the sale of custom slaughtered and/or processed meat, only allowing its use “in the household of…[the] owner, by him and members of his household, and his non-paying guests and employees….” (21 USC 623)
Use of Electronic Identification Eartags as Official Identification in Cattle and Bison (Final Rule)
A final rule by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) within the United
The website “The Beef Initative” offers an overview on the concept Know Your Cow. We list them further down but highly recommend you visit their site. You have the option to share your Email-Address to receive more information and articles
The website linked below is called “Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance”. It covers the animal ID issue. You will find all the action alerts at the bottom of their site. It includes talking points and information on who to call
My wife Jackie and I keep a handful of cows and sheep. We don’t do it for the money, but for the food security and as a way to combat the enemies of cows. Small-scale farming is the antidote to industrial agriculture and confinement animal feeding operations.
Raw (unpasteurized) dairy products, except for cheese aged 60 days, are the only foods prohibited for human consumption in interstate commerce. The ban was a result of a 1986 federal district court decision ordering the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue a regulation establishing the prohibition; Congress, the people’s branch of government, had no input.
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