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Mining Those Raw Milk Phone, Email Goodies

by David Gumpert | Jun 8, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk | 42 comments

I found myself laughing out loud when President Obama said, The government isnt listening to your telephone calls. The government just looks at phone numbers and duration of calls. What kind of phone call of what duration prompts a listen-in? And what about...

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...

Heres 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 Ive 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...

Wisconsin Pushes to Have Raw Milk Farmer Vernon Hershberger Jailed

by David Gumpert | Jun 1, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 22 comments

Prosecutors in the Vernon Hershberger case filed a motion Friday asking the judge to revoke the raw milk farmer’s release order, and throw him in jail. The prosecution move comes less than a week after Hershberger was acquitted on three misdemeanor criminal...

Looking Ahead on Food Rights and Raw Milk: How Will Regulators Get Out of the Corner Theyve Painted Themselves Into?

by David Gumpert | May 31, 2013 | Legal, News Media, Raw Milk, Regulation | 4 comments

So how is it again that the acquittal of Vernon Hershberger favorably impacts the fight for food rights? Its not a legal opinion from a judge, so technically, it doesnt comprise legal precedent or otherwise extend beyond freeing Hershberger from penalties connected...

Hershberger Victory for Private Food Rights Sends Message That People Can, and Will, Fight Overbearing Regulators

by David Gumpert | May 26, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk | 71 comments

Make no mistake, Vernon Hershberger won a huge victory in todays early morning hours in Baraboo, WI. Its a beautiful day, Hershberger told me this morning, after a few hours of sleep following the 1 a.m. jury decision that acquitted him of three of four criminal...

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...

Much Like a Prize Fight, Hershberger Trial Participants Slug It Out Over Retailing, Vendettas

by David Gumpert | May 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk | 4 comments

I’ve seen the video at least twice now, the one of Wisconsin food inspector Cathy Anderson throwing blue dye into a vat containing hundreds of gallons of Vernon Hershberger’s raw milk that fateful second day of June, 2010. But each time, as the ribbon of...

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