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 | Oct 2, 2012 | Food Safety, Nutrition, Raw Milk, Regulation, Research |
One of the most incisive scientific assessments on all that European research on raw milk of the last few years has just appeared, of all places, on a web site backed by the conventional dairy industry and academe. In a footnoted article by an experienced ...
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 ...
by David Gumpert | Sep 8, 2012 | Food Clubs, Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
Almost like a mirage, the Rawesome Food Club case seems to be disappearing before our eyes. A big chunk of it vaporized Friday when two defendants–Sharon Palmer and Victoria Bloch–settled the charges filed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney...
by David Gumpert | Sep 6, 2012 | Legal, Raids, Raw Milk |
For months, tedious negotiations have dragged on between the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and a group of dairy farmers over the protocol for herdshares in the state. Some hundreds of tiny California dairies offer herdshare arrangements,...
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