by David Gumpert | Jun 14, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Resistance |
Theres a new strain of illness making the rounds of Canadas rulers. Call it Michael Schmidt Paralysis. You dont wish health problems on your enemies, but news that a second British Columbia prosecutor has bowed out of a major raw milk hearing against dairy...
by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2012 | Legal, Nutrition, Regulation, Resistance |
The latest tactic in impeding raw milk distribution–harassing farmers using drop sites–seems to be spreading from Minnesota to Missouri. And like in Minnesota, where many of the ten consumer drop site hosts warned by regulators recently are...
by David Gumpert | Jun 4, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Regulation |
The pathetic case of the former senator and vice presidential candidate, John Edwards, is one most of us would just as soon forget about, preferring to file it away as just another sad episode in our political system’s steady descent into tawdriness and...
by David Gumpert | May 29, 2012 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Lots of people were discouraged because Sen. Rand Pauls proposed amendment to reign in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was overwhelmingly defeated last week. It would have prohibited FDA agents from carrying weapons and making arrests as well as liberalized the...
by David Gumpert | May 24, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Nutrition, Regulation, Resistance |
When I wrote about the case of parents suing Minnesota farmer Michael Hartmann in connection with their childs alleged illness from raw milk, and the judge’s suggestion the parents might bear some responsibility for their childs illness, I assumed the...
by David Gumpert | May 17, 2012 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
Food rights proponents got another civics lesson today when Alvin Schlangens jury trial on four misdemeanor charges, due to begin next Monday, was put off indefinitely.It is easy for food rights proponents who participated in protest activities in...
by David Gumpert | May 8, 2012 | Legal, Regulation, Resistance |
The Minnesota Department of Agricultures campaign against consumers is significantly more widespread than I first reported. And it is stirring up a hornets nest of outrage, and promises of defiance.It turns out the MDA actually sent its love letters...
by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2012 | Food Safety, Legal, Regulation, Research |
In Nazi Germany during the 1930s, the big challenge among Germans was to prove they weren’t Jewish. They scrambled to produce certificates of baptism and show family trees that documented they weren’t Jewish. It didn’t take much to fail–a...
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