Legal Defence Fund

The time to defend the growing movement of small-scale food producers has come.

Despite growing concerns about the nutrition, safety, and ethics of the food we eat, some regulators are making it harder for Australian small-scale farmers to produce ethical, ecologically-sound, nutritious, and delicious food for their communities.

The issues include: communities who want access to raw milk from local dairies, farms doing on-farm processing facing unfair and inconsistent regulation of their facilities, and many others grappling with outdated and illogical definitions of ‘intensive’ and ‘extensive’ livestock in local planning schemes that see a farm with a few hundred chickens out on the paddocks subjected to the same requirements as one with 10,000 birds in sheds.

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Submission to the Independent Review of the Agvet Chemicals regulatory system

In December, the federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment released the draft report of an indpendent panel reviewing ...
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2020 National Committee Report

President’s Report 2020 has been a year like none other in living memory. For Australians, the year commenced with the ...
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2019 President’s Report

What a delicious year of growing and eating and winning and celebrating it’s been for AFSA! And yet while the ...
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Industrial ag’s spurious biosecurity claims revealed

AFSA and our partners recently negotiated a streamlined application process for pastured pig and poultry production... however, during the final ...
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MAJOR WIN FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AS VICTORIA ANNOUNCES PLANNING REFORMS

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is celebrating a win for small-scale pastured pig and poultry farmers – and everyone’s ...
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Response to the Proposed Draft Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Poultry

View AFSA's entire submission here.  The current review of the Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals – ...
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Poultry Welfare Reforms Fact Sheet

The Codes for animal welfare for poultry are being reviewed for the first time in over 15 years. The result ...
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AFSA calls out biased reporting on Victorian planning reforms

Peter Hunt, a Weekly Times reporter, has treated the concerns of Victoria’s pastured livestock farmers over proposed planning reforms with ...
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NSW Planning Reform Campaign Materials

1. PRINT THE PETITION to collect signatures in your community and secure the future of free-range farming in NSW! 2. DISTRIBUTE THE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: The future of free-range farming endangered by NSW Planning review

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is calling on the NSW Government to secure a future that encourages regenerative farmers ...
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