Not quite a decade ago, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, now META, changed Facebook policies to disallow animal sales or parts of animals on Facebook including in private farm groups or advertising such sales without being a brick and mortar business. 

As Facebook explained years ago, in order to be able to be a "brick and mortar" business, we had to register and prove with Facebook to be verified and to receive a blue check mark.  From my experience, this is a lie as even copies of bank and utility records and business registration are not enough for the blue check mark verification to allow not to mention, most farmers and people raising food for themselves and to trade with others are simply not organized to the point of being a corporate acceptable entity to Facebook.

Therefore, this petition is posted and hosted to ask Mark Zuckerberg and Meta to cease and desist their restrictions and discrimination against independent farmers working together to feed their families in restricting our PRIVATE exchange and transactions in Facebook groups.

We do understand the need to stop animal abuse, puppy mills, and animal profiteering to the detriment of the animal, but what has that got to do with farming and feeding ourselves in small private cooperatives such as local groups?  We are talking about FOOD animals and small farms where those same animals are basically family members prior to any other purpose, living lives not even comparable to commercially raised farm animals.