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WI Prosecutors Seek to Limit What Hershberger Jury Will Hear About Constitution, Religious Beliefs, Nullification

by David Gumpert | Jul 12, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 9 comments

Prosecutors seeking to jail Vernon Hershberger for distributing his farm’s food privately to members of a food club betrayed their nervousness yesterday when they filed motions intended to limit the evidence the Wisconsin farmer can present to a jury.  The...

If They Could See Her Now–Sally Fallon’s Farm a Model of Raw Milk Safety

by David Gumpert | Jul 8, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation | 28 comments

Sally Fallon has long been the whipping girl of raw milk opponents, portrayed as uncaring of victims of illness from raw dairy and an advocate of crazy safety ideas, like the one that the good bacteria in raw milk from grass-fed cows kills off pathogens.  When...

Wisconsin Judge’s Opinion Likely Provides Clues to Vernon Hershberger Trial Direction

by David Gumpert | Jul 7, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Regulation | 10 comments

Sometimes it’s possible to infer important clues about a legal case from a judge’s seemingly negative opinion. The articles about Wisconsin Judge Guy Reynolds rejecting a motion by farmer Vernon Hershberger to dismiss the case against him suggested...

Happy Anniversary to the FTCLDF…and Three Reasons I Believe It Has Succeeded; Dan Brown Suit Response

by David Gumpert | Jul 3, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation | 10 comments

I  want to be the first to wish the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund a happy fifth anniversary.  The FTCLDF launched, quite appropriately, on July 4, 2007. It sprang up in response to the coordinated crackdown launched the previous year by state and...

The Raw Politics of Raw Milk, Part 3: You Want Maine or FDA Regulators? Grist Coverage

by David Gumpert | Jun 29, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Regulation | 29 comments

The  good-cop-bad-cop routine is one of the oldest in law enforcement. Talk  with me, goes the advice to the criminal suspect from the nice-guy cop, or I’ll  send in our junk yard dog, and you don’t want to deal with him. Lord knows what...

Schmidt Seeks to Use Intense Scrapie Probe to Foster Dialog; RAWMI Catching On?

by David Gumpert | Jun 23, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 6 comments

Over nearly two decades of fighting for the right to access raw milk, Michael Schmidt has become legendary for his persistent promotion of dialog with reluctant regulators and politicians. He went on a hunger strike last fall that he ended after five weeks when his...

The Raw Politics of Raw Milk, Part 2: How ME Ag Obsessed Over Linking Parasite to Small Dairies

by David Gumpert | Jun 22, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation | 17 comments

Cryptosporidium, or “crypto,” as it’s commonly known,  is a nasty parasite that causes diarrhea and other stomach upset. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control says that,  “While this parasite can be spread in several different ways,...

The Raw Politics of Raw Milk: ME’s Ag Bureaucrats Ignore Their Guv and Go with FDA in Opposing Food Sovereignty

by David Gumpert | Jun 18, 2012 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance | 44 comments

Two more Maine towns—Appleton and Livermore– have passed food sovereignty ordinances in the last few days during the current town meeting season. This brings to eight the total number that have legally sanctioned private food sales by local farmers over the last...
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