I’m at the Inaugural Food Freedom Fest in Staunton, Virginia today, hosted by the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund.
Dozens of experts, activists, and champions of freedom are here to celebrate our God-given right to choose the food we want for ourselves and our families. Stories of challenges and victories in the battle for food freedom across the nation have been encouraging to hear.
So why a conference on food freedom?
Because we have gone so far down the road of the development of a controlled economy, where the large corporations have paid off the legislators to write the laws in their favor and captured the regulators to enforce them against their small competitors, that the battle lines have been drawn between the corporatist system and the people who simply want to have the freedom to choose the food they eat (and the small farmers that want to provide it to them).
The founders would be appalled at this, demonstrated by one of the speakers today who quoted James Madison on this topic:
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
– James Madison, Federalist No. 47
The growth in the local healthy food movement has enlisted soldiers into this fight in numbers that are too large for the system to ignore. Since the industrial food system is antithetical to local production of natural healthy foods, the system is using government agents to persecute (and prosecute) small food producers and distributors in an attempt to make their efforts too costly to continue and to produce a chilling effect to dissuade others from joining the fight.
The good news is that the popularity of the local healthy food movement has grown to a point where it is impossible for the corporatists to turn back the tide, and local food consumers’ commitment to exercising their food freedom provides a strong tide of activist potential that can help fend off efforts to attack small farmers and other food producers.
This battle for food freedom is an important one that YOU need to join. So how do you do that?
First, decide to buy as much of your food from local farms as possible (beyond what you grow yourself in your own garden).
Second, become a consumer member of the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund to contribute to the resources they need to defend small farmers from the onslaught of government agency action.
Third, encourage your friends to do the same.
This simple combination of making buying decisions that support alternative agriculture, supporting the defense of local small food producers, and enlisting others to join this important battle for liberty, will make all the difference in winning the fight.
Indeed, your action is necessary to accomplish this important objective. Will you join in this fight for your essential liberty?