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Farmers To Face Fines Or Prison Sentences For Selling Food Directly To Customers

• http://www.jbbardot.com, by David Gumpert

For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there's a problem: many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and leasing arrangements, which fall outside the regulatory system of state and local retail licenses and inspections that govern public food sales.

In response, federal and state regulators are seeking legal sanctions against farmers in Maine, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, among others. These sanctions include injunctions, fines, and even prison sentences.

Food sold by unlicensed and uninspected farmers is potentially dangerous say the regulators, since it can carry pathogens like salmonella, campylobacter, and E.coli O157:H7, leading to mild or even serious illness.

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Here's a business in the making.

A trust is a document where a person who is a grantor places something into trust with a trustee to hold for a third person, the beneficiary. A trust is a contract that has a third party, the trustee, as an uninterested third party, so to speak.

A trust can be written in short simple form. It can state that it is "without" the State or the United States, making it a private trust outside the jurisdiction. The trust can state that the trustee has the right to change the beneficiary, or relinquish the trust document to another trustee. A trust contract can be short.

Make two trusts. The first is a trust where the farmer's wife (grantor) makes a deal with the farmer (trustee) to hold property (farm products) in trust for their children (beneficiaries). The second trust is the purchaser's wife (grantor) who places some money into the second trust with her husband (trustee) to hold for their children (beneficiaries).

Then both trustees switch trusteeship of the various trusts, and the new trustees make the family to be the new beneficiaries. No buying and selling was done. No giving of farm produce was done. Simply a swapping of the trusts was done for the overseership of the two different kinds of properties.

Make whatever other terms are necessary for distributing the property held in trust to the beneficiaries. You are free. Make whatever terms are necessary. Make it strong by not necessarily using family members for the trust offices.

Since the terms of the trust state that it is outside of the jurisdiction of the State and the United States, there isn't even any need for a lawyer.

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