By Shawn Dady
Tennessee Representative Frank Nicely has been quietly working on a cow-share bill for the state of Tennessee. This is a very good thing. He crafted the bill working with the The Weston A. Price Foundation and the attorneys at the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance. The bill is modeled after the cow-share bill that passed in the state of Colorado, the only other state in the union where cow-shares have actually been passed into law. The bill is very much based on farmer freedom, and he has made a point to make it not limiting. Although the concept of farmers and consumers using cow shares to sell/obtain raw milk are already legal in the United States because of contract law and our Constitution, basically what this bill would do is reiterate that these kinds of contracts are 100% legal in TN. It would declare them legal instead of letting the question hang out there, waiting for someone to challenge a farmer in court when they set one up.
I cannot tell you what a momentous day this is for the raw milk movement in Tennessee. It is historic.
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