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doing on-farm processing facing unfair and inconsistent regulation of their facilities, and many others grappling with outdated and illogical definitions of 'intensive' and 'extensive' livestock in local planning schemes that see a farm with a few hundred chickens out on the paddocks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.

That’s why the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is asking you to support the AFSA Legal Defence Fund for eaters and farmers across the country.

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Joel Salatin at Jonai Farms – 26 February 2017!

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AFSA Legal Defence Fund Approaches $25,000!

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