This is merely the latest in a long list of federal and state agencies harassing small farmers, food co-ops, and homeowners who have turned their yards into fruit and vegetable gardens. It's nationwide and ongoing. Remember Farmer Brown in Blue Hill, Maine? or Baker's Green Acres in Michigan?
David Gumpert
February 5, 2016
Sam Girod is a Kentucky farmer who runs a small business selling natural skin salves made from herbs such as chickweed, which seem to help relieve a host of skin conditions, including allergic rashes, psoriasis, poison oak and even skin cancers.
If you look up chickweed on Amazon, you will find pages of chickweed products, dozens and dozens of products, in some cases followed by glowing testimonials from users about how this or that chickweed provided relief from terrible itching, and even cured their skin cancers.
So why has the U.S. Food and Drug Administration picked Girod out from all those producers, and had him indicted by a federal grand jury on a dozen criminal charges that could jail Sam Girod for 48 years? Neither Girod, who is 56 years old and the father of twelve, nor his lawyer, Chuck McFarland, can explain it.
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