by David Gumpert | Feb 8, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation, Resistance |
When you follow the tedium of the legal justice system, you begin to understand why some defendants, even though they are innocent, decide to cop pleas rather than follow the process through to completion. It can be a maddening process that is often difficult for the...
by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2013 | Food Clubs, Food Safety, Raw Milk, Regulation |
An unlicensed organization like a food club is not only distributing contraband, but a controlled substance, in the view of a Minnesota prosecutor fighting to prevent dismissal of three misdemeanor food allegations against farmer Alvin Schlangen. In other words,...
by David Gumpert | Jan 25, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Its always dangerous from a journalistic perspective to write about a particular food safety situation in the midst of the regulatory process, especially when it involves raw milk. But in the case of the tiny Missouri raw milk cheese maker, Homestead Creamery, Im...
by David Gumpert | Jan 23, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
Missouri is turning out to not be a great place for raw milk cheese makers to be operating. On Friday, the sad final scene of a two-and-a-half year tragedy will play out for Morningland Dairy. It is the once-thriving raw-cheese-making business that came under...
by David Gumpert | Jan 16, 2013 | News Media, Raw Milk |
I was watching President Obama at his press conference yesterday trying to explain why it is that every time there is talk about measures to reign in firearms, thousands of people rush out and stock up on guns and ammo. He looked serious and perplexed, said it was a...
by David Gumpert | Jan 4, 2013 | Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture continues to push ahead with misdemeanor criminal charges involving the distribution of raw milk, meat, and eggs against farmer Alvin Schlangen in his home county, despite the similarity to three charges he was acquitted on last...
by David Gumpert | Jan 2, 2013 | Food Safety, Legal, News Media, Nutrition, Raids, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research, Resistance |
A year ago I summarized the key themes for 2011 as “rising shock events” and “rising stress levels,” thanks to highly public raids on food clubs and farms.Id say 2012 was the year these shock events played out in a number of ways, primarily...
by David Gumpert | Dec 27, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raw Milk, Regulation |
I’ve been devoting a considerable amount of time and energy to reporting on the sometimes tedious ins and outs of the upcoming trial of Vernon Hershberger. Why? What makes this case so important, in my view?Here are six reasons I see it as being key:...
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