Editor's Note: When you consider the horrific abuses that go down in CAFO lots on a daily basis in this country, it does not make sense that these grass fed food ranchers would be targeted for harassment like this unless there's an agenda behind it. Are they trying to wipe out ranchers to take their property? clean food? Both?

The latest from Paradise Ranch: The judge has ordered that all the animals we are charged with neglecting be forfeited unless we pay a bond of $39,780 by 4 p.m. Pacific time, Thursday, June 11. Unless we come up with the money by that time, 35 of our animals (cows and their calves, yearlings, and a boar) will be forfeited.

Ranchers Are Not Criminals…for Now

by Ava Denton