by David Gumpert | Nov 24, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Resistance |
You wonder what sitting in jail for four months–all for running a private food club–does to a guy. You wonder what it does to the people around him who were supposedly watching his back. I’ve certainly wondered, especially with James Stewart...
by David Gumpert | Nov 21, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Regulation |
On Monday afternoon, I took a 40-minute drive to Terri Lawton’s Oake Knoll Ayrshires farm in nearby Foxboro, MA, to pick up a Thanksgiving turkey. I know it’s not a big deal in the larger scheme of things, to make a special trip to pick up a turkey, but I...
by David Gumpert | Nov 17, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation |
What is the essential ingredient enabling farmers and food club operators to successfully resist the seemingly endless government assaults and incursions on private food arrangements?Nearly without exception, it has been community support, according to several...
by David Gumpert | Oct 6, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation |
When I spoke with Alvin Schlangen a few days ago, I asked him how he felt about having been in the shadows of the food rights movement the last couple of years, prior to his trial. Yes, there had been a demonstration on his behalf last May, but the lion’s...
by David Gumpert | Sep 27, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Resistance |
On Tuesday, James Stewart, the jailed founder and principal of Rawesome Food Co., was offered a deal by the Ventura County prosecutor: Plead guilty to 14 of 37 counts of fraud and securities violations, and you’ll receive a six-month jail sentence. The two...
by David Gumpert | Sep 24, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, News Media, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
The 250 or so people attending my presentation Saturday on “America’s Underground Food War” at the Mother Earth News Fair in Pennsylvania broke into applause when I told them, near the end of the talk, that Alvin Schlangen had been acquitted of all...
by David Gumpert | Sep 20, 2012 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
A jury of six ordinary Americans did something no judge, federal or state, has been willing to do anywhere in the country, whether in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Maryland, or Wisconsin–it ruled in favor of a farmer-food club operator...
by David Gumpert | Sep 19, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Former Rawesome Food Club manager James Stewart received bad news today when a Ventura County judge rejected his request that charges against him in connection with the acquisition of Sharon Palmer’s farm in 2008 be dropped. Even though ...
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