WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION

ACTION ALERT
October 10, 2005

IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT

FLORIDA RAW MILK NEEDS ALL OF YOUR HELP!

Message from Sally Fallon: We are very grateful for how our members have
responded to urgent situations, such as submitting testimony to the FDA on soy
(almost 500 of you!) and sending letters to the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture when they were considering banning raw milk (your letters helped
turn the situation around.) This Action Alert requires response from as many of
you as possible, so please email or fax to the numbers given below. Your help
for Full Circle Farm could mean the difference for hundreds of families and
children in the state of Florida, and ultimately in other states. Thank you for
your support of small farmers and Real Milk!

BACKGROUND

Dennis Stolzfoos, a Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader and farmer who
owns Full Circle Farms in Live Oak, Florida is under attack from the Florida
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS). The Division of Food
Safety (DFS), a branch of FDACS, has filed two administrative complaints against
Full Circle Farm alleging numerous violations of the Florida Food Safety Act
(FFSA).

Unless FDACS withdraws the complaints, a hearing will be held before an
administrative law judge within the next few months. Should the judge find
Dennis guilty of the charges against him, he faces potential penalties of a
prison sentence and thousands of dollars in fines.

Full Circle Farm is a small farm not open to the general public that sells raw
dairy products, eggs, grass-fed meats and other health-giving foods, primarily
to Weston Price chapter members living in west and central Florida. While sales
of raw dairy for human consumption are prohibited under Florida law, sales of
raw dairy for pet consumption are legal if the seller has a commercial food
registration certificate issued by FDACS. Having the certificate enables its
holder to also sell meat for pet consumption and conceivably almost any other
food as well. Full Circle Farm currently holds a commercial food registration
certificate, issued this past August.

The legal issues involved in Dennis's fight against the Division of Food Safety
are jurisdictional. DFS has jurisdiction over only sales of food for human
consumption. The Florida Food Safety Act applies only to sales of food for human
consumption. All charges against Full Circle Farm are made either under the FFSA
or regulations issued under rule-making authority granted by the FFSA. The
Division of Agricultural Environmental Services, another branch of FDACS, has
jurisdiction over pet food sales under the Florida Commercial Feed Law. Even
through DFS knows that Full Circle Farm has a commercial food registration
certificate, they have refused to admit lack of jurisdiction.

More important than this particular legal issue, FDAC versus Full Circle Farm
involves the fundamental rights of freedom to farm and consumer freedom of
choice. Dennis only made the transition to selling pet food because he realized
that complying with the demands DFS had made on him under the law were cost
prohibitive and would put him out of business. Just by enforcing the FFSA and
other food safety laws, the DFS can shut the small farmer down. Cowshare or
farmshare programs are no answer in Florida because under the wide reach of the
FFSA, DFS has jurisdiction over either and can impose the same onerous
regulations any other farm is subject to.

The public policy of the State of Florida is to eliminate the small farmer.
Inspectors from FDACS have openly remarked to farmers that the state is moving
towards a time where only megafarms will exist. Further evidence of this policy
can be found on FDAC's own website. According to FDAC's Division of Dairy, as of
June 30, 2004, there were only 189 licensed Grade A dairy farms in Florida,
milking an average of about 750 cows each.
(http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=46160\
259&u=427316).

Florida is a bellwether state. What happens there can have an impact in what
goes on in many other states. Dennis has been a tireless worker in fighting for
the freedom to farm and in making it possible for the consumer to have access to
the health-giving foods they want to purchase. He needs your help.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Please email, fax or call with the following message:

1. Tell FDACS and DFS to stop harassing Full Circle Farm and to drop the
administrative complaints against it. A stated purpose of the FFSA is to
"safeguard the public health." Ask FDACS and DFS how they are accomplishing this
by prosecuting a farmer who has never had a customer file a single complaint
against him. Not one.

2. Urge the Florida legislature to pass farm-consumer freedom-of-choice
legislation exempting cowshare and farmshare programs from the burdensome
regulations of the FFSA and the Pasteurize Milk Ordinance (which Florida has
adopted). Say those regulations shouldn't apply when consumer are knowledgeable
about the producers of their food and obtain their food directly from them. Say
that consumers have a right to obtain these foods they think best for their
families and that come from animals they actually own. Say that consumers should
have the right to obtain those foods they think best for their health. Ask how
the FFSA is "safeguarding the public health" by denying them this right. Ask how
the FFSA is promoting the public health by effectively putting out of business
the small farmers who can best meet the needs of health-conscious consumers.

3. Provide your own individual story about how farm fresh foods have contributed
to improved health for yourself, your families, and especially for your
children.

CONTACTS

Please contact the following people:

1. Charles Bronson, Commissioner of Agriculture
State of Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
The Capitol
PL #10
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0810
850-245-5520
fax 850-922-4936
commissioner@...

2. Joanne Brown, DVM Commissioner of Agriculture
The Capitol
PL #10
Tallahassee, FL32399-0800
850-488-3022
fax 850-488-0639
brownjo@...

3, Marion Fuller, Division of Food Safety
Laboratory Complex
3125 Conner Boulevard
Tallahassee, FL 32399
850-245-5520
fax 850-488-7946
fullerm@...

4. Representative Ralph Poppell, Chairman
House Agriculture Committee
Suite 1C, 400 South Street
Titusville, FL 32780-7610
321-383-5151
fax 321-383-5153
ralph.poppell@...

5. Representative Dwight Stansel, Vice Chairman
House Agriculture Committee
208 N Ohio Avenue
Live Oak, FL 32064-2455
386-758-0484
Fax 386-758-0879
dwight.stansel@...

6. Senator Rod Smith, Chairman
Senate Agriculture Committee
4131 Northwest 28th LN, Suite 4 Gainesville FL 32606
352-375-3555
fax 352-955-6262
smith.rod.web@...

7. Senator Larcenia Bullard, Vice Chair
Senate Agriculture Committee
8603 S. Dixie Highway, Suite 304
Miami, FL 33143
305-668-7344
fax 305-668-7346
bullard.larcenia.web@...

8. Govenor Jeb Bush
The Capitol
Tallahassee FL 32399-0001
850-488-4441
fax 850-487-0801
jeb.bush@...

Thank you so much for your help. We are so appreciative of you.

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Bill Sanda
Executive Director
Weston A. Price Foundation
bsanda@...