If convicted, these charges could result in a significant jail sentence. We are being targeted by a joint effort between the Union County District Attorney's Office and essentially an animal rights foundation because of how we manage our livestock which we raise to provide meat for our customers.

What we do is considered immoral and criminal by the California-based Animal Legal Defense Fund and we are being prosecuted by the only special prosecutor in the country whose salary is paid by a private special interest group. Jacob Kamins is the State of Oregon "Animal Cruelty DDA." His position is funded by an annual grant from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. His home office is the Benton County, Oregon District Attorney's office, but he appears in cases all over the state, including our case in Union County.

Ross and I started living our dream in 2009. After we met, I moved from Washington to Oregon to live at his ranch in a tiny place called Medical Springs. I purchased a ranch property in Summerville, Oregon for pasture. I was leaving a stressful job and suburban living for a country life working outdoors. I was also sick. I had spent two years battling Crohn's disease including a hospitalization and was still recovering from the aftermath of brain surgery to remove a brain tumor. I was on a journey back to good health having decided to give up processed food and eat real food, including grass-fed meats. I was at a healthy weight for the first time in my adult life and I was making great progress keeping the Crohn's disease in remission. I wanted to share my success as part of my dream.