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Vernon Hershberger Makes Peace with His Jury…Is DATCP Next?; A Bonus for Supporting FTCLDF

by David Gumpert | Jun 14, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 16 comments

It was a sight to warm the hearts of all in DATCP (the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection), not to mention the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration). There was Vernon Hershberger, basking in the warm afternoon sunlight outside...

Remembering a Memorial Day Weekend Two Years Ago, When a Food Club’s Members Became a Community

by David Gumpert | Jun 5, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk | 21 comments

Two years ago, on the Friday before the Memorial Day weekend, inspectors from the local and state health departments clamped cease-and-desist and quarantine orders on coolers containing raw milk intended for members of a Louisville-area food club. What happened next...

Here’s Why DATCP and WI Dept of Justice Are So Pissed Off: You Would Be, Too, If “The Fix” Unraveled

by David Gumpert | Jun 3, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 21 comments

I like to understand both sides of an issue or controversial event. So I’ve been trying to understand the Vernon Hershberger raw milk and licensing case from the viewpoint of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) and the...

In a Wisconsin Courtroom, Forget Even Talking About Healthy Food

by David Gumpert | May 24, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk | 37 comments

There were times today in a Baraboo, WI, courtroom, when I wondered if I was still living in the United States of America.It started first thing when one of the prosecutors in the Vernon Hershberger case, Eric DeFort, complained to the judge that the lead defense...

Absorbing the Boston Marathon Bombing Reverberations; A Bump for Vernon Hershberger; Book Endorsement

by David Gumpert | Apr 20, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, News Media | 13 comments

I go away for a week and what happens? All hell breaks loose in my home of Boston and environs, and it becomes the news center of the world as a horrible example of urban terrorism in action.  Having been glued yesterday to the television coverage of the...

The Alvin Schlangen Legal Scorecard: Two Courts, Two Different Decisions

by David Gumpert | Apr 9, 2013 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 35 comments

For a long time, I have argued that the state and federal judges hearing food rights cases are living on a different planet than the people. The judges nearly always come down entirely on the side of the regulators. The people, in the form of a jury, see things much...

With Straight Face, MN Prosecutor Argues Any Unregulated Food a “Controlled Substance”; Settlement of Maine Food Sovereignty Case?

by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2013 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation | 46 comments

An unlicensed organization like a food club is not only distributing “contraband,” but a “controlled substance,” in the view of a Minnesota prosecutor fighting to prevent dismissal of three misdemeanor food allegations against farmer Alvin Schlangen. In other words,...

Six Reasons the Hershberger Raw Milk Case Is Central to Struggle for Food Rights, and Even WI Politics

by David Gumpert | Dec 27, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 64 comments

  I’ve been devoting a considerable amount of time and energy to reporting on the sometimes tedious ins and outs of the upcoming trial of Vernon Hershberger. Why? What makes this case so important, in my view?Here are six reasons I see it as being key:...
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