OEFFA Conference Highlights

Wow. I was hoping for a good OEFFA conference but it exceeded even my hopeful expectations. The keynoters on both days were excellent and I learned a lot at the workshops. One of the best things, though, was just being there with so many like-minded people. I met neighbors who are doing some really cool things and we've got some tentative plans in the works to start up a local OEFFA chapter in the Morrow-Crawford-Richland county area of Ohio. I've already decided that next year I want the whole family to go.

I'll leave you with a quote from Weston A. Price Foundation president, Sally Fallon:

Totalitarian governments have recognized that the one enemy to their system is the prosperous, independent, yeoman farmer spread out over the whole country thinking independently who doesn't need anything from his government. That's a big challenge to totalitarian governments - how to get rid of all these people. In Russia they starved them, in Ethiopia and Cambodia they shot them and in the U.S. and Europe they just pass health laws.

She went on to say that the single largest reason that America farmers have ceased to be independent and prosperous is the law requiring mandatory pasteurization of milk. She announced then that the WAPF is in the process of setting up a legal defense association modeled after the Home School Legal Defense Association. Farmers, herd-share owners and consumers will be able to join this organization and will be provided with free legal defense when the government regulators come trying to shut them down. Look for more information on that around July 4th.