Watch and listen to Congressman Ron Paul–champion of small farmers and 2008 Presidential Candidate–address the Farm Food Voices DC 2007 Legislative Reception. On February 14, 2007, small farmers and activists from around the country gathered in Washington DC for the first annual Farm Food Voices, the national small farm lobby day. Organized by the National Independent Consumers and Farmers Advocates Fund (www.nicfa.net ) we came to Washington so that small, independent, sustainable farmers and the communities they support would become real to Washington legislators. When legislators think “agriculture,” they think multinational corporations, commodities, massive subsidies to massive companies who raise genetically modified grains and green pigs, who depend on poisons like insecticides, herbicides, pesticides, anhydrous ammonia (one of the key ingredients for methamphetamine) and raise animals in confinement conditions that leave them with compromised immune systems, and fragile health, then use massive doses of antibiotics. We are the small farmers who nurture and heal the land through careful, faithful stewardship of soil, plant and creature. We raise our crops and animals to have the robust immune systems nature provided. We are local, and we want to stay local. We want to feed our neighbors and communities. We are not asking for subsidies, we are asking that we not be treated as though we are the same as the factory, confinement, mono-crop, commodity producers, and …

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