[SustainableTompkins] Meadowsweet Dairy hearings...

[Sandra Repp]

Sustainable Tompkins listers who have been following the Meadowsweet Dairy 
issue may be interested in the following, posted by the dairy owners on the 
homeschooling list serve.


>Subject: Come to Meadowsweet Hearings!
>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:54:18 -0500
>From: Meadowsweet Dairy, LLC 
><<mailto:dairy%40meadowsweetfarm.com>dairy at meadowsweetfarm.com>
>To: Barb&Steve Smith 
><<mailto:dairy%40meadowsweetfarm.com>dairy at meadowsweetfarm.com>
>
>Hello friends and supporters!
>
>We are finally at the point of confronting Ag and Markets face to face
>in the next two weeks! Our first date is at a hearing in the Ag and
>Markets offices in Albany (10B Airline Dr., Albany) on JAN 17 AT 11AM.
>We would love to have an ENORMOUS show of support at this hearing! This
>is an administrative hearing at which they are considering ordering us
>to CEASE AND DESIST from providing milk to our members. The outcome is
>very likely to go against us because even though they haven't a shred
>of evidence to prove we are "selling" milk, the hearing officer seems
>to be very fearful of going out on a limb against Ag and Markets. She
>has already indicated this by her complete unwillingness to postpone
>the hearing at the request of our lawyer (he had a personal conflict
>with the date).
>
>The second date is JAN 22 AT 1:30 IN SENECA COUNTY COURT IN WATERLOO,
>NY (48 West Williams St.). At this hearing the judge will consider
>issuing a temporary injunction against Ag and Markets to keep them from
>harassing us until the whole thing is resolved. Again, the more people
>who attend this hearing the better! We want to really pack the room!
>
>Please publish this info everywhere you can think of.
>
>The fight is very important for the future of farming and the future
>health of our descendants!
>
>Thanks for everything.
>Barb