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Political Theater at Michael Schmidt’s Dairy

by David Gumpert | Oct 6, 2015 | Legal, News Media, Raids, Raw Milk, What's New | 21 comments

If you want to understand the power of people organizing and standing up for what they believe in, I strongly suggest you watch the video segment below. It shows raw dairy farmer Michael Schmidt negotiating with an official of the Ontario Department of Natural...

Back Off from Bugging Raw Dairy, MN Judge Tells MDA

by David Gumpert | Jun 7, 2015 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance | 13 comments

It’s not often that a judge steps in to protect a farmer claiming a violation of his constitutional rights from aggressive state regulators, but that’s exactly what has happened in the northeast corner of Minnesota. In a 19-page decision, state judge Michael Cuzzo...

Who’s More Dangerous, James Stewart or the Marathon Bomber?

by David Gumpert | Apr 10, 2015 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation | 69 comments

I fought the law and the law won, I fought the law and the law won.”from song by The Bobby Fuller Four, 1965 Prosecutors like to make a statement about the importance of a particular criminal case by coming up with as many felony charges as possible against the...

Farmers’ Lawyer Alleges Possible Misconduct By CFIA

by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2015 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Resistance | 23 comments

(This post has been edited since it was originally posted. In particular, the letter from the defense lawyer to the prosecutor, referred to in the second paragraph–originally included with the post and then removed shortly after at the request of the defendants...

In Canada, Stage Set for Food-Rights Show Trial

by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2015 | Food Safety, Raids, Regulation, Resistance | 3 comments

 That sheep-napping case involving Canadian farmers Michael Schmidt and Montana Jones is turning into a major criminal and political drama. If you’ll remember, this case stems from a 2010 dispute between the Canadian government and farm owner Montana Jones...

Musings of a Rebel Sheep Farmer; A Monsanto Protester

by David Gumpert | Sep 23, 2014 | Raids, Regulation, Resistance | 29 comments

Back in 2010, Canadian agriculture authorities launched a campaign to kill and test for scrapie a herd of rare Shropshire sheep owned by Ontario farmer Montana Jones. By 2012, after the Canadian authorities refused all Jones’ compromise offers and were set to remove...

Where Does Michigan’s Complicated History of Raw Milk Crackdowns and Romance Leave Us?

by David Gumpert | Aug 16, 2014 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation | 19 comments

Sometimes, it’s important not to lose sight of the forest for the trees.  One of those times is occurring in Michigan right now, where there seem to be a lot of trees—in the form of different people with different understandings about what is and isn’t...

All’s Well That Ends Well, in MDARD’s Version of Events at My Family Co-Op

by David Gumpert | Jul 25, 2014 | Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation | 22 comments

A number of people have asked me why Jenny Samuelson didn’t just defy the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development last Sunday and cut the red seizure tape on her co-op members’ food….in much the same way as Vernon Hershberger did in Wisconsin in 2010....
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