MFS: Modest Family Solutions

🚨 Flooding + Food Loss? Help Is Available

If recent flooding damaged your food supply, you may qualify for Disaster Cash Assistance from DSHS — available Dec 17 to Jan 15 for eligible households in 15 counties.

📞 Apply by calling 877-501-2233 or visiting your local Community Services Office (Mon–Fri, 8am–2pm).
🌐 Full details: dshs.wa.gov/alert/food-benefits-and-flooding

Counties include: Benton, Chelan, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, King, Kittitas, Lewis, Pacific, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish, Thurston, Yakima, Whatcom.

Please share with anyone impacted.

Support Country of Origin Labeling: Stand Up for Local Ranchers, Not Imports

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress To Stand up for Local Ranchers, Not Imports!
https://advocacy.organicconsumers.org/page/90050/action/1

BUY AMERICAN GRASSFED: Don’t be fooled! Until next year, meat can be voluntarily labeled “Product of the U.S.A.” even if it’s only slaughtered or processed here. Only buy American Grassfed Association certified:
https://www.americangrassfed.org/aga.../producer-members/

Since 2017, the U.S. has lost over 17 percent of its cattle ranches—more than 150,000 farms. The cattle herd has shrunk to its smallest size since 1951.

This shouldn’t be happening. Over the last decade, consumer demand for beef is up 9 percent. The U.S. herd should be growing to meet it.

Instead, imports are growing.

U.S. cattle ranchers rely on us to vote with our wallets and buy American beef. To support that, U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, has introduced the Country of Origin Labeling Enforcement Act.

The best part of the bill is that it expressly overrides international trade agreements. This is important, because the last time the U.S. government implemented mandatory country-of-origin meat labels, Canada and Mexico used the World Trade Organization to strike them down.

It’s about time Congress stood up to anti-democratic usurpations of national sovereignty!